BF2S Forums My first attemp at a photoshop picture, I need your help.

Do you need to cut the tree out? Or do you still want the background?

Andoura wrote:

fkin easy !!! look ill do it for you :


http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/1237 … fx3rg3.jpg

Nice, I couldnt be bothered myself....I thought he wanted the tree white?

mkxiii wrote:

here:

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j126/mkxiii/tree.jpg

Mine is better

mkxiii: care to share your process?


I don't feel like installing PS or Fireworks to play with this, but since it's primarily a 2-tone image and assuming he wanted the tree white, I think I'd reverse the colors and then run some kind of filter or something to screen out all but the pure white pixels (convert them to transparent maybe?  or will the select tool allow you to select colors?) and copy or extract what's left (should be the trees in foreground/background) and paste into the desired background.

The alternative I suppose is to outline the entire tree, but that would take a decade with all that detail.

Good luck.

ph4s3 wrote:

mkxiii: care to share your process?


I don't feel like installing PS or Fireworks to play with this, but since it's primarily a 2-tone image and assuming he wanted the tree white, I think I'd reverse the colors and then run some kind of filter or something to screen out all but the pure white pixels (convert them to transparent maybe?  or will the select tool allow you to select colors?) and copy or extract what's left (should be the trees in foreground/background) and paste into the desired background.

The alternative I suppose is to outline the entire tree, but that would take a decade with all that detail.

Good luck.

i just used the 'magic wand tool' (if you dont know what that is i can elaborate but its pretty simple) and then just cut and paste into the other pic and then i chose the colour of the grass with the pipette and got a fuckin big ass brush, selected the tree again so it didnt go outside and and just covered the whole thing in the colour. nothing complex, was just being simple as am new to PS and wanted to do it quick

ShadowStalker_fx wrote:

I was near enough right...

yeah sure, technically #68 was the second most importnant, and as person for #69 didnt leave a name......

Select the pen tool. Make sure the options are set to Create Path and that the path option is "add to path area". Zoom in and cut out the shape of the tree, or the shape that you want, and when you are done right click and select "make selection". Now go to the paths pallete (one of the windows on the right, next to the "layers" and "channels" tabs) and click on the path you just made in that window. Go to Edit>Define Custom Shape and name your shape. Now go to the Custom Shape tool, and your shape should be saved in there. Just put it on your new picture, you should be able to color it whatever color you want.