For Buck!

“Yeah, right! LOL”

“Whatever do you mean by that James? ;)”

“i don't get it .....”

“Here is my Father in-law and the Duke in Red Rock Canyon...
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“Beastmaster!”

“(the Bird pic, I mean.... not John Wayne, LOLOL)”

“Yeah, I know Duke. We rodeo together. Surf too.

Wierd. Didn't think color photography was around when he was that young.”

“WindWalker what's become of you? This is a Buck post for sure..I was looking in the National Geographic Mag. today with awesome Bald Eagle shots.You had me going for one sec. geeze lol..great shot though..”

“Yeah I know Tekdude ruined my fun!”

“My Father In-law asked if I could do somethin' with the background :)
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“Yeah really...I agree..so funny”

“I don't know about you guys, but my expertise is getting rid of red eye and the glare of glasses. Ya know, sometimes it's just easier to copy the other eye and plop it down on top of the offending eye!!! lol”

“Windwalker, how do you drop out the background? I have never managed to learn doing layers an easy way in Photoshop. Are you just using the mouse to trace the outline, then selecting the inverse and clearing it out? Or is there an easier way??!”

“O M G John lost his left arm!!!!!”

“Lizs...I have a goofy little program called Mr Photo that has a compose feature. You select a background photo and a foreground
photo....then it has these smart erasers....you just erase everything you don't want by moving the mouse back and forth just like an eraser. I have the foreground with John and Bill saved and I can put them in any photo I want now...same thing with the hawk too.”

“Now that is a classic!!!


8)”

“What so freaking hard about layers? Just imagine everything is drawn on a piece of glass and you stack them on top of each other.”

“Yeah WW,
Try one with your Father in law and another Famous "John"
maybe like somewhere near his Holmes....lol”

“The concept of layers is simple but how do you separate a photo into layers? Don't you have to trace the part you want, isn't that extremely tedious?”

“I liiiIIIIIiiiiike it, I like it! I was mightily impressed at first! Okay, I'm still impressed. Mr. Wayne tends to have similar expressions on his face in each photo. Come to think of it, so do YOU! You guys get around a lot too. From garages to the American deserts to the Egyptian Pyramids... without a change of clothes. Yep. I'm impressed!”

“Fritz, that's my understanding, either you'd have to trace it and clear out the background (I would 1.trace what I want; 2. select inverse; 3. Get rid of the "inverse"... or simply erase the background with the erase tool.

Is there an easier way?!? I still sometimes have trouble matching things up size-wise, but I think you need to have the same percentage view... and then size the incoming (or top layer) photo part at however many inches you need it to be using the rulers.

Mind you, this may not be good or precise or whatever, but it took me awhile learning it on my own and it seems to work.

Don't be DISSIN' me, you Photoshop hos!!! lol”

“Oh snap! Back away from the mouse! LOL!

Thats pretty much it Lizs. Selecting and vignetteing is tedious. Especially when doing it for print because the number of anchor points matters. Using auto selct tools like the lasso will make a ton of nodes and will crash most output devices.

Typicly I make a copy of the original on a new layer. Lock the original and modify the copy to however I want by making a copy of the original for each piece I want to make and putting each element on a new layer.

Your method of selecting and deleting the inverse is just fine and it's how i normally do it. The most accurate method of selection is by using the pen tool, manipulating the anchors and converting it to a selection.”

“HPM....I still need an evaluation copy of PS :) I'm still using Elements 2.0”