HI! We are trying to remove a portion of a picture to inlay another picture
into the spot removed. We have tried cutting and erasing but neither are
working...are we doing something wrong? Can someone please explain how to do
this?

in article fg3j1d$j5m$1@forums.macromedia.com, heather09876 at
webforumsuser@macromedia.com wrote on 10/28/07 10:11 PM:

> HI! We are trying to remove a portion of a picture to inlay another picture
> into the spot removed. We have tried cutting and erasing but neither are
> working...are we doing something wrong? Can someone please explain how to do
> this?

Here's one way to do it if you're using FHMX. Place the main picture and the
inlay picture on your FH page. Create a path of the shape you are trying to
cut from the main picture and position it on the main picture where you
want. Cut (command X in the edit menu) the inlay picture. Select the path.
Use the paste inside command (edit menu) to paste the inlay picture inside
the path. With that path selected, go to the properties panel and delete the
stroke, then again in the properties panel select contents. You'll see a
small star like symbol appear in the center of the path on top of the inlay
picture. Click on that star and drag the inlay picture around until you get
it positioned inside the path where you want. This technique may take a bit
of getting use to if you've never used clipped paths before.