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Save 'instant alpha' images from iWork '08 apps Apps
The new "instant alpha" feature of Keynote '08 (as well as the other iWork '08 apps) can be used to make transparent backgrounds in images, but copying and pasting the resulting image doesn't work as expected. Either the original image is copied or the transparency is replaced with a white background.

Ken Drake at Keynote User has a simple workaround. Place a shape with "no fill" (eg an invisible rectangle) over the instant alpha's image, and copy and paste both image and shape.

To create a png file with the transparency, I opened iWeb 06, created a new page, pasted the image and shape, and exported to a folder. In there I found a droppedimage.png, complete with transparency.
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Save 'instant alpha' images from iWork '08 apps
Authored by: ecbtln on Aug 31, '07 10:55:03AM

thanks for this, i had just recently gotten around to using the instant alpha feature of iWork and boy was I happy I did! It is a great tool that should be used by almost all photo editors of any sort. When I realized I couldn't get it out of iWork I stooped down to taking a screenshot and then making the white transparent. But not anymore.



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