How to Edit Bitmaps Properly for Use in Flash Animations - KPro - Submitted: 07/21/05

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3. Now select your new photo layer and begin deleting all of extra space around Colin Mochrie's head.
It's always easiest to draw a big sloppy circle around the head, and then invert your selection by clicking
Select > Inverse or hitting SHIFT + CTRL + I. From there, continue to trim it down until you've cut out the
head with no extra pixels around it.

NOTE: The task of cutting out a part of a photograph is much easier if you have the lasso tool set to a 1 px
feather, as this doubles the anti-aliasing effect, and provides a small buffer of lowered-alpha pixels in between
the photo and the zero-alpha background.