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Can someone give me some tips with photoshop
I am trying to get the image of lighting mcqueen and I can't cut him out nicely with magnetic lasso tool. Is their another way to do it?
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Posted 2/20/08 10:16 AM  |
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Ang-Rich
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Re: Can someone give me some tips with photoshop
Did you zoom in? I make the thing huge and that helps.
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:18 AM |
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Re: Can someone give me some tips with photoshop
I did and then it picks up the shadow. I guess I just stink at the program 
Thanks
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:20 AM |
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Ang-Rich
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Re: Can someone give me some tips with photoshop
I had a hard time with the Tonka trucks I used for DS's invitation. I wound up filling the background with the same color of the background I was putting it on so only the truck stood out.
Does that make sense?
Eventually I was able to go back and cut it out.
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:22 AM |
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Smileyd17
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Re: Can someone give me some tips with photoshop
Posted by Ang-Rich
I had a hard time with the Tonka trucks I used for DS's invitation. I wound up filling the background with the same color of the background I was putting it on so only the truck stood out.
Does that make sense?
Eventually I was able to go back and cut it out.
that is what I do.. 
because I have such a hard time getting it exact and always seem to get a little bit of the background around the edges.
I did a tutorial that uses, extraction tool. it was a video and it seems to do the same thing but I still found it wasnt
perfect!
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:25 AM |
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nrthshgrl
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Re: Can someone give me some tips with photoshop
If you want to email it to me, I can try it. PSC3 (which I just installed) has a very cool selection tool you can use.
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:26 AM |
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nrthshgrl
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Re: Can someone give me some tips with photoshop
Also with the magnetic tool, you may have to adjust the feathering.
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:27 AM |
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Posted by nrthshgrl
Also with the magnetic tool, you may have to adjust the feathering.
I saw that how should I adjust it and what does it actually mean?
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:28 AM |
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I also think I am going to make the background black because it seems the tires are going to be the biggest headache.
DH thinks I am nuts because I found some really cute invitations on ebay but I get deterimined especailly since I have the program.
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:30 AM |
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Smileyd17
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Re: Can someone give me some tips with photoshop
Barb...how do you figure this out?
I have an ELMO I need to cut out and get into an invite and I cant do it without using a white background.
we need to hook up!
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:35 AM |
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I think I got it  I changed the feathering amount and I like the way it looks. I will post shortly of the out come for some opinions 
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:41 AM |
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nrthshgrl
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Re: Can someone give me some tips with photoshop
I figured it out when I did Maddie's Surf's Up invite with all of the characters. I needed to cut them out for her movie party.
I do like the new CS3 version. The selection tool is very easy to use. Also with Magnetic select, another option is to select the part you don't want & delete that (instead of selecting the object you want to keep).
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:42 AM |
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nrthshgrl
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Re: Can someone give me some tips with photoshop
Posted by Smileyd17
Barb...how do you figure this out?
I have an ELMO I need to cut out and get into an invite and I cant do it without using a white background.
we need to hook up!
Email me your Elmo if you want me to try it.
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:43 AM |
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I forgot about the magic extraction tool.
I feel like I spend so much time figuring out all the tools for one invite and then once I am done I foget it and then have to relearn everything.
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| Posted 2/20/08 10:57 AM |
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