Books > Vol. 2 - Winning with Windows Notebook 10 > Chapter 4 info > Picture transparency

The Format pull down menu is the ONLY way to set Picture Transparency.  In this example, we selected the blue clematis that we earlier scanned in with the SMART Document Camera.  It’s hard to see in black & white, but the area around the flower is violet, with some yellow shading.  Click on the yellow areas around the object to make them violet.  These violet areas are transparent.  You notice at the bottom of the flower some yellow areas.  These are shadow areas.  You also need to click on to make them transparent.

Tip: click a few times to make some of the outside region transparent, then click on the Set Transparency button.  Keep choosing Picture Transparency from the Format menu to work on the increasingly smaller areas to set transparent.  There isn’t Undo in this mode, so if you go too far, you will make some of the actual object transparent and will have to start all over again.

This is the finished blue clematis with shadows removed, set against a gradated green-to-light-green background.  Picture transparency allows you to create much more lifelike manipulatives in your Notebook file.