Layering Graphics (Transparency / Recoloring Issues)

[K3estrel]

I've been having some difficulties with layering graphics. Basically, I want
to take a simple B&W clipart (a Yin-Yang, for example) and put it over a
solid color background so that the background color shows through the white
areas of the image. Making the B&W graphic transparent with ctrl-T doesn't
work, and there doesn't seem to be a way to recolor the white areas of the
graphic either (that I have found). I'm trying to create some "heraldic"
graphics, and I've hit this major problem...Thanks in advance for any help
you can offer !

 

[Mary Sauer]

Is the clipart a .wmf? Select it, arrange, ungroup, recolor the white part and set
the transparency. It very well could be the white area isn't actually part of the
image. Draw a circle the size of the Yin-Yang symbol, fill it how you want, send it
to the back of the black area.
There are Yi-Yang images here:
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/results.aspx?lc=en-us&Scope=MC,MM,MP,MS&Query=yang

 

[***MS*Publisher***]

"heraldic" - hmmm sounds evil