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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 19:28:31 CST

Hi Margaret,
  If you render it with Rayshade, you can make a "transparent" background,
but this may be trickier than you're prepared to worry about just now, if
you've never used Rayshade before.

Since you're using Powerpoint though, you should be able to place the
image behind all of the other items, so it shouldn't be necessary to
make it transparent. This can be done by using the object controls
to place it at the bottom of the stack. Unless you want other images
to "show through" or something, but that could be done with Photoshop
pretty easily, by compositing two images together. If you could tell us
more about what you're trying to do, it would be easier to help out.
You can also change the background color in VMD of course, by using the
Display->Background selection in the Color Form.

Hope that helps,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:06:41PM -0800, Margaret Cheung wrote:
> Dear All,
> I'm making some slides for the powerpoint presentation. I only need
> the image of the protein (without rectangle backgrounds) to make a flow
> chart. However, no matter how I do, the images are saved with backgrounds.
> Is there a way I can only take the image of the protein itself?
> Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
> Margaret S. Cheung
> Physics Department 0319
> University of California, San Diego
> 9500 Gilman Drive,
> La Jolla, CA 92093-0319
> http://www-physics.ucsd.edu/~cheung 

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