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I am creating a catalog in excel and would like to add a
picture of a recycle logo with other pictures of my own
on top of it. The recycle logo I would like to have
the 'watermark' quality but still be able to print it.
The only thing that has worked so far is changing my
printer settings it prints the watermark on every page
and I only want it on the one page. I have found several
tutorials where you can put text in front of images but
whenever I try to use graphics I always have the white
background. I only have photoshop elements to work with
so I can't use a clipping path either.

If anyone can help please do!
Thanks,
Jen
 
Generally, Microsoft Word is better for tasks such as catalogue
printing. Perhaps you could store the data in Excel, and use Word's Mail
Merge feature to create the catalogue, with the watermark logos behind
the text.
 
Thanks for trying to help but I got in at the end of this
catalog and its done in excel. I don't want to change
everything just trying to get this logo into the excel
file and thought someone might know a trick.

Thanks again,
Jen
 
Jen -

By "watermark", do you mean you want it faded? Select the picture, and
the picture toolbar pops up. On a copy of the image, increase the
brightness (the sun button with the up arrow) and decrease the contrast
(the half gray filled button with the down arrow) until it's
sufficiently washed out.

Who says you need Word? I only use Word to read files other people send
to me.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com/
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Thanks for helping everyone, I have tried making it a
watermark look but when I put other pictures on top they
still have the white boarders around them. I am about to
go crazy here...can anyone help?!?!

Jen
 
Jen -

Can you set the transparency color? It's one of the buttons on the
Picture commandbar, which pops up when a picture is selected. If you
don't want to use white as the transparency color because you have other
white features in the picture, use a bitmap editor like MS Paint to
color the border a color that isn't otherwise used in the picture, then
back in excel, use that for the transparency color.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com/
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