Photoshop Tutorials/General Photo Editing links and advice
summer_wine:
Quote from: Cinamun;593236
I really need to know how you photoshop one image into another one? Like say I have a picture of a sim and I want take ONLY the sim in the picture and photoshop the sim into say a magazine ad for example... can anyone please tell me if there are any tutorials for this? I dont have photoshop, I have GIMP but im beginning to see that the two programs are somewhat similiar so maybe a tutorial for photoshop may have the same tools if I were to try it in GIMP. Thanks guys!
you mean you wanna take a pic of a sim then paste it into a real or different background?
what i do is i take a pic of the sim in a plain background like white or black, any color that doesn't match your sim in anyway. then open that pic in photoshop. iget the magic wand eraser or magic wand selector, whatever, then select the background. with the eraser, it deletes the whole background leaving the sim. with the selector, it selects the background and then just hit delete. from there you can drag the layer to a real background.
I'll try to do one here with pics just give me about ten minutes. wokie?
here are pics to help you. they were rushed so i apologize. this is the first tut i've done. hope it helps.
I did buffy's warming effect to get this below
Buffy:
thanks summer, i never knew how to do that. im gonna go try it now...nice pic btw:)
AlbinoBambi:
Oh and Cinamun, I know at least a few things that work a bit different in GIMP.
So I'll try to give a kind of tutorial with GIMP, only I'll use a random old picture
for it, instead of a Sims 2 pic, because I don't have those on this pc.
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To be able to get a transparent background, you'll first have to create a new layer, then duplicate your background. Delete the original background, and move your new transparent layer underneath your duplicated background.
(tell me if you need more explanation on creating new layers and duplicating old ones)
Before you continue, double check that you've selected the top layer (your actual picture).
After that, you select the 'Fuzzy Select' and click on the background(color) of your picture. After you've selected that part, press Ctrl+X, that cuts the background out of the picture.
(extra note: You'll have to play around with the threshold to select the parts you want gone)
Then repeat that in other places where you have your background, for example the space between the hair and body.
After removing all that, and having just your sim(s) left, with no original background, you can delete the extra layer.
Open up your new background.
Press Ctrl+C while having your original picture selected, then go to your 'new' picture, press Ctrl+V there. Move your sim(s) around on their new background, untill they're on the correct spot, and save your file.
Tadaa. ^^
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I hope that that's clear enough. :) I've never tried it with a Sims picture, but I'm positive it'll work. :D
summer_wine:
albino, you did it much betetr than mine. :)
AlbinoBambi:
Aaw, thank you. ^^
Your example picture is a whole lot better than mine though. :P
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