Tutorials & Links

[endromada]

either:
A) if it has a plain BG then use magic eraser
B) use normal eraser very carefully
C) use the extract tool under filters, or use the magnetic lasso tool

[EverLast]

D) use the pen tool press ctrl and + as much times till u get close to seeing the edges and w/e real good use the pen tool outline the image by the layers table u will c a tab called paths click on the paths it will show work path right click it and click make selection on it and set it to 0 pixels and copy paste

[Fuji]

Gj Everlast

It worked for my new sig im making

I usually stop at endromada's Step C.

[PanZer]

Okay, say i have two pictures....a peanut butter jar and the background i want it to go cleanly onto....how do i copy it to the background without a crappy lookin white border around the edge of the jar?

[Anferny]

what program?

in photoshop 8/cs go to filter > extract and use smart highlight then fill it then click okay or hand crop

[jedimaster86]

Okay, say i have two pictures....a peanut butter jar and the background i want it to go cleanly onto....how do i copy it to the background without a crappy lookin white border around the edge of the jar?

looks like anferney gave an answer; heres another one.

1)If u want, u can read tut here on how to blend the render your own way.

2)see pic below

[PanZer]

Sry...I have PS 7, and I didnt see that earlier but thx for reposting....

[Fuji]

In this tutorial you will learn how to render an image with the Pen Tool opposed to the eraser, extraction tool, etc...

1. Open desired picture you would like to render...



2. Select the Pen Tool...



3. Make sure settings are as so...



4. Zoom in on the image to around 600% and begin to outline the image with the pen tool as close as possible to the section you want to render...

NOTE: The closer you get the less choppy the image will look when back to 100%. (Every small box the pen tool makes is known an Anchor Point)



5. After you get around the whole image, reconnect the pen tool with the first anchor point you've created.

It should look like this with a solid grey line around the image you want to render...



6. Click the paths tab next to your "History". If you do not have a path's tab, click Window>Paths.

7. Rightclick the only path that should be in that screen known as Work Path. After you've right clicked, select the option "Make Selection...".

Adjust settings as so... Then click ok...



8. Now you should have the selection lines around the area you want to render...



9. Copy the selected part by simply pressing ctrl+c while the area is still selected...

10. Create a new image with a white background, and make dimensions slightly larger than the dimensions given to you, then Paste the image onto the new background by pressing ctrl+v




There you have it... your image is now rendered!

You may have to touch up the render, you can do so by using the eraser tool if need be, but if you got close enough you shouldn't need to...

You can blend the hard lined sides into any background by feathering the selection tool and clicking delete until your sides are blended to your liking...

Good Luck and Happy Rendering!!!

Taken from Gaming Sector. By Rival.
Warslut sent me this so I put it up.

[Grave]

teach me to make nice signatures better than wat i made and nice text and effect (points if u treach good)

[Fuji]

Dude I just posted how to render pics use that tut. It will work.

[Grave]

not render pics i knpow that i need to kno0w how to make hot writings and then with photo shop 7.0 make hot effect and image redy make the effect

[Hamel]

Ok this is a tutorial i made to change the color of you name on your signature.
1.open up your finished sig in psd. format.

2.then what you wanna do is press ctr-shift-m to go into image ready.When you are there press the duplicate frame button which is circled.

3.from there what you need to do is with that duplicated fram open you goto color overlay and change your color to what you want it to turn into.


4.Now on that same frame you need to hit the tween button and make it 100 frames to make it slow and make sure its previous frame.

5.press play and watch it it should fade into your color you picked then it will skip back to the normal color but if you want you can make it fade back into the normal color which i did not do.If you want to do that just repeat the steps but make the duplicated fram the first text color.

6.from there press file>save optimized as>save it as a gif

Once you have finished you should get something that looks like this.

Have fun with this tutorial

[Fuji]

To add to your Tut there Kem, When you first dupe the frame. Make two of them. When you tween from Slide 1-2 leave #3 and then take the last 2 frames after the tweening and tween them so it will change into the color you choose and back again.

[kurups]

Murder i cant find text blending options and what do i right click with?

how u save as a gif?

oh nvm

[kurups]

For some reason its not letting me save it as a gif

[Anferny]

if its animated save optimaized as in os u gotta save as and change it on the drop done menu also once u sAve as a gif all ur layers emrge so u can edit l8r so have 2 copies

[endromada]

or... just go to photoshop file>save for web...> GIF w/e quality u want...

[Fuji]

Here is how you get that "feathery feel" with gradients.
You can do this on any layer. So if you have a render on top of a backgound. Do the same thing to the render layer.
I'm going to use my friend Walter.

1.) Click on your layer and then click on "Add Layer Mask" Like in the picture.

It will look like this after you clicked it.

Now get your Gradient Tool. If you don't know how to do this Right click the Paint Bucket Tool on the Toolbar.


Now under File Edit etc... Make sure your settings are like this.

Now Here is the fun part. Take your tool and go from center outwards. Like the pic demonstrates.

It will look like this.

Keep using the Gradient tool untill your happy with it.
Here is my final product.

Your pal,
Kevin

If any questions just post em. If you want the gradient I made White - Black. Here ya go. YES IT IS CLEAN!!! You know you like my arrows I used to write... Got caught.

[DemonKiLLa]

i need to find a good image that goes with my theme for my sig
also how do u add pics to ur sig and
how do u put the sig u made and but it on d2 sector (like puting ur sig in sig edit, how do u add it from photoshop 7)

[Anferny]

well first off, wrong thread
u add pics to ur sig by making them or having some1 make one
also u didnt give ur "theme"
from ps7 save it as a jpeg or gif and goto links>file uploader and find where u saved it and up load it, after its uploaded do to edit ur sig and paste the link and put [img] in front and [/img] after it, no spaces