just a quickie

[crackthatoff]

I'm just starting to play with photoshop, once I have an image opened how do I open another image to put on top of it?

cheers noel

[Zad]

Open both files, highlight the window you want to use the image from. Bottom right i Photoshop you should see a window with some tabs in, one of which reads 'Layers', select that tab. Below it you should see a layer entitled 'Background'. Click on that and drag it over the window you want to paste in. Let go.

Alternatively, select the whole of the image (Ctrl+A or Filter->Select All), copy it (Ctrl+C or Edit->Copy), select the destination window and Paste (Ctrl+V or Edit->Paste).

[crackthatoff]

thanks v mutch

[crackthatoff]

grrr this is hard, so I have a pic of the wonkey donkey [pic][/pic]

and I wanted to draw round it so that the desk etc isn't there and put it it on this


[pic][/pic]

I understand how you put the pic on top of the other one and I can crop the donkey to a square shape.

obviously I'm not going to have a go at this months photoshop comp but I'd like to have a play so that I can have a go in a few weeks time

thanks again !

[Zad]

You use the Lasso tool (press L to toggle between the 'smooth' lasso and polygonal lasso) to outline the object you want, then copy/paste as before.

If you don't get exactly the outline you want first time, hold the shift key down when using lasso to add to your selection, or hold alt down to subtract from it.

[crackthatoff]

last one I promise, sorted that, now when I try to put it on photobucket it dissapears when I look for it in my files, I dont think it likes photoshop or something

[Jenx]

When you're happy with you're image save it to "My Pictures", then upload it to Photobucket from there and delete it (if you want) afterwards.

I'm sure some smart4rse will be along with a more geeky method but at least this one works

[Zad]

Use "Save for Web" or "Save as" then .jpg, and put it in a folder that you can remember, maybe in My Documents, My Pictures, or create one just for your Photoshop saves.

If you don't ask, you don't learn

[crackthatoff]

yay !!! [pic][/pic]

[JB Rugby]

crackthatoff said:

yay !!! [pic][/pic]

Actually, if you allow me to hijack your thread, once you've done the above, is there an easy wa to smooth the lines around the integrated subject? Make it look like it belong more.

Cheers

JB

[Simpo Two]

While you're getting to grips with PS, now is a good time to learn about image resizing/compression. Image > Image Size etc. Terrabit links aside, if you let PH crush your images to 758px they'll go jaggy - much nicer to do it yourself and resharpen properly.

[VxDuncan]

JB Rugby said:

crackthatoff said:

yay !!! [pic][/pic]

Actually, if you allow me to hijack your thread, once you've done the above, is there an easy wa to smooth the lines around the integrated subject? Make it look like it belong more.

Cheers

JB

When you had the area selected - use select-> feather selction (select menu), and enter a number of pixels to soften the selection by, would use 1px in this application, then cut the donkey out/delete the background/mask.

[LaSarthe+Back]

Also, use the magnetic lasso tool to go around the edges of the object. Much better than doing it manually and has worked every time I tried it!

[flat-planedCrank]

For an object with a solid outline like that you will get a much smoother selection if you use paths rather than 'freehand' selection tools like lasso.

(You can still feather the selection afterwards if you want to)



Cheers.