some help/tips would be nice

[dxsibo]

hi guys i have a question...


how do you renden a image and put it nicely into a sig? do you use magic tools to remove away unwanted portions?

actually what i did is crop out my render, copy and paste into my bg setting it to lighten. Is it the correct way to do? It look kinda weird to me..


i have seen some other nice writen tuts on making siggy and it's just blend in so nice, but i have no idea how to clearly crop out the renden...

[static06]

Look for a blending tutorial

Or you can do it my way:

Set lasso to 10-20px feather
Circle the render with lasso
Right click and hit select inverse
Hit delete

[imported_Jack]

Eew EquaL :P thats the icky way. You blend a render into the background by making the background an environment (something with depth) and placing the render inside of that environment, rather than on top of it. There can't be a single tutorial on how to blend something into another thing, its all dependent on what the content is.

A reason why you don't want to use the magic wand tool is its difficult to find just the right amount of tolerance that you need for each situation and it typically does a bad job. Not only that but it leaves the edge of whatever is left all jagged and pixelated.

It looks like you need help cutting the render from its background so you can be free to blend it how you like. Use the pen tool (people say its hard to work with, its really easy once you get comfortable with it) its the best way to do it. A few people want a tutorial on how to use the pen tool. Its easy, but I'll make one soon anyway. So lets say you use the pen tool. After that, right click and click "make selection". If there are any parts of the selection that aren't part of the render or if there are parts of the render not selected, you can add/subtract them by making another shape with the pen tool, right clicking and click "make selection" and you'll have options to either make a new selection (not the one we want), add to the selection (for when parts of the render aren't selected and you've drawn a shape over the unselected parts), subtract from the selection (its obvious what that does), and intersect with selection (also not the one we want). So after you get your selection just right, click the button at the bottom of your list of layers that shows a gray rectangle with a white circle inside of it.



That's the mask layer. Just in case you don't know what a mask in photoshop is (or other graphics/animation programs for that matter), its a shape that hides whatever is beneath it. What will happen is this (heres my little example)



As you can see, I have a blue layer on top of a yellow layer. The mask is on the blue layer and is denoted by the little box on the right side of the layer. The mask only covers whats underneath the black, so the result of that is this:



By using different shades of gray you can lower the opacity of certain parts of the layer. The darker the gray, the lower the opacity.

Hope that helped you understand masks. If you want to know how to use the pen tool (assuming you don't know how) I'll make a tutorial sometime soon.

[dxsibo]

oh wow! thanks for the help i'll try it now!


really thanks a million :wub:

[dxsibo]

hi just another question is there any other way to cut out the render so nicely just like this ?

[imported_Jack]

Yes there is, and you'll be able to if you follow what I told you You can cut it out cleaner than that example. If you look, especially around the boots, the lines dont have any curves, theyre sharp and make corners. Thats typically caused by the use of the polygonal lasso (inefficient and able to only make straight lines). The pen tool on the other hand is made to create curves. It also, because its meant to imitate a vector pen tool, cuts cleanly if used correctly. I suggested using a layer mask because that way, rather than deleting what you dont want, if you find that you took away something that you needed, you can just pen tool the shape that you needed and then fill the selection with white in the layer mask to bring it back. Its much easier to work with. So, as you can see, the pen tool/layer mask combination is the cleanest and most efficient way to do this sort of thing. As I said, if you need help with the pen tool, I'll be making a tutorial soon. You'll find, if you already havent, that the pen tool is easy to use once you get the hang of it, and there are a few tricks I'll show in the tutorial that help manipulate the pen tool into doing what you want.

[dxsibo]

thanks for your speedy reply

will try again and i can't wait till your tut is out


tumbups!