Cropping a Circle

Jigglebox

I'm having an issue with my images in GS where the collision boxes are much too large. I believe this is due to the fact that in photoshop, I still have the checkered background (where the image has no color, but there is still technically a background).
SO! I went in to crop the backgrounds out and the only thing I can't crop out is my circular object... Can ANYONE help me on how to crop out a circular object in photoshop?

PS.
Selecting with the smart tool, then selecting the inverse and deleting is not what I am talking about. I need the checkered portion gone.

Thank you.

slowcut

Reduce the canvas size to the size of your graphic and export it or use the crop tool

Jigglebox

Reduce the canvas size to the size of your graphic and export it or use the crop tool

i'm not sure how that will help, the canvas is already the size of my graphic, and when i use the crop tool, it only crops in a square, not a circle. =/ (unless exporting somehow does this, which idk what to export to...)

slowcut

in GS you have to adjust the collision shape to circular (in the physic section of the actor)

Socks

There is no such thing as a circular image file, all image files are rectangular.

I still have the checkered background (where the image has no color, but there is still technically a background).

I'm curious, if you did manage to crop out, delete, or otherwise get rid of this checkered background, what would you expect to see 'behind' it ? Would the checkered background simply be replaced by a solid colour ? Or maybe the file's window shape would become circular ? I'm finding it hard to image what it is you are wanting to happen ?

Jigglebox

for some reason with the checkered background my files were still recieveing a collision box that matched the size of that checkered background and not the actual image. i was merely trying to figure out how to get rid of that larger collision box. But i figured it out. I just had to crop the file down smaller so the checkered box wasn't so large. I'm not sure WHY it fixed it but it did.

Socks

for some reason with the checkered background my files were still recieveing a collision box that matched the size of that checkered background and not the actual image.

Collision detection works on the file size.

i was merely trying to figure out how to get rid of that larger collision box. But i figured it out. I just had to crop the file down smaller so the checkered box wasn't so large.

This will crop the image to get rid of all the blank space:

In Photoshop > command+click on the image layer > image > crop

I'm not sure WHY it fixed it but it did.

You cropped away unneeded image.