How to make the center of a clip art picture frame hollow/transpar

[nkbyrne]

I have Microsoft Word 2002 or Microsoft Office XP Professional and Windows
XP. I inserted a picture frame clip art which is a bitmap. I also inserted
a picture of my daughter. I want to cut out the middle of the picture frame
on the computer so when I put the picture frame clip art over my daughter's
picture, I will be able to see my daughter's picture through it so it looks
like a framed picture. How do I make the middle of the picture frame see
through or transparent on the computer.

I do have the Print Shop 20 Deluxe, and it has Advanced Drawing where you
can do this, but it has to be a .wmf file. I did save this bitmap file as a
..wmf file, and I can see the picture frame in My Pictures in Advanced
Drawing, but when I select it and open it, nothing is there. Sometimes it
says it's too big or not centered, but I reduced the size in Microsoft Word
and centered it in Advanced Drawing, but nothing is still there.

Can anyone help me with this?

Joyce

 

[garfield-n-odie]

It would be much less work to set the order of the picture frame bitmap to
"back", and to set the order of the picture of your daughter to "front".
Right-click on each object, then left-click on Order | Send to back (or
front). Then drag the daughter's picture over the frame clipart.