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Remove parts of photos with Instant Alpha

Remove parts of photos with Instant Alpha - iBooks Author Tutorial

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Remove parts of photos with Instant Alpha

- Now let's have a look at my favorite feature of iBooks Author for working with images. That's Instant Alpha. To begin let's go ahead and open up our media browser and in the chapter six exercise files, I've included an image called condor face. Go head and grab that image and simply drag it on to page twenty five of our Explore California Travel Guide. This image once again has come in as an anchored image so go head and change it to a floating image. And what Instant Alpha is going to allow us to do is it's going to allow us to get rid of all of this extra blue around here so that it becomes completely transparent and we can cause the head of the condor to simply float in space. To do that we'll use a tool that's up here in the format menu under image and it's called Instant Alpha. Now I use this tool so much that I like to go head and instead of accessing it from my menu, I like to add it to my toolbar. So we'll go up here to the view menu and come down to customize toolbar. You…

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