Photoshop boffins in here

Enfield · 10 Mar 2006 at 02:02

Gord, sure go ahead mate, knock yourself out

I have another challenge for you lot, probably a piece of cake though (not for me!)

I'm getting these lights soon and am wondering how they'll look on my car:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/Brian/Picture192.jpg

And a rear shot of my motor: http://img446.imageshack.us/img446/2331/fiestasi0057sp.jpg

gord · 10 Mar 2006 at 02:15

Enfield · 10 Mar 2006 at 02:18

Nice one Gord, thanks :cool:

Tican · 10 Mar 2006 at 03:08

I always seem to get bored halfway through doing this lol.

Whats the "proper" or best way of removing the background? As I can NEVER do it properly lol

*edit* EYEREX (sp) Done my sig ... so I didnt remove background on that lol

bingham67 · 10 Mar 2006 at 03:23

Someone take the first picture but put it in different scenery quality pics by the way.

Docaroo · 10 Mar 2006 at 03:36

DJ Binks said:
I always seem to get bored halfway through doing this lol.

Whats the "proper" or best way of removing the background? As I can NEVER do it properly lol

*edit* EYEREX (sp) Done my sig ... so I didnt remove background on that lol

this how I do it:

Docaroo said:
oh and in my experience the best way to chop the background is to first use lasso tool to remove the bulk of the rubbish, say to with 5-10 pixels of the car...

then go in with a small eraser tool ~4 pixels size to "erase" around the car... you get a smooth "blurred" edge that looks a lot more natural then simply lasso-ing the whole beast...

also i find i can control the eraser better as you can use opacity to blend it better...

Tican · 10 Mar 2006 at 03:53

Docaroo said:
this how I do it:

Woops didnt see that

I cant get on with the lasso tool, I havent got a steady hand though

nealw · 10 Mar 2006 at 08:21

lolz

valerian · 10 Mar 2006 at 08:59

how do i post a pic on here?

gord · 10 Mar 2006 at 10:19

Upload the photo to the internet from your hard drive. You can use www.imageshack.us if you dont have your own hosting.

Then link it through with

tags, where the dots are the direct link from imageshack

Priest · 10 Mar 2006 at 10:41

Docaroo said:
oh and in my experience the best way to chop the background is to first use lasso tool to remove the bulk of the rubbish, say to with 5-10 pixels of the car...

then go in with a small eraser tool ~4 pixels size to "erase" around the car... you get a smooth "blurred" edge that looks a lot more natural then simply lasso-ing the whole beast...

also i find i can control the eraser better as you can use opacity to blend it better...

Cheers for that mate, been trying to remove the background from an image to use in a wallpaper I'm planning, but it was proving a real headache. I'll give this a go when I get home.

Enfield · 10 Mar 2006 at 10:47

DJ Binks said:
*edit* EYEREX (sp) Done my sig ... so I didnt remove background on that lol

That's a cool sig...you can get him to make me one if he wants

geiger · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:44

Someone mentions makign the background colour transparent by deleteing that colour but I tried that and it didnt work. How do I get the pink or white in a picture to be transparent so the picture is effectively just the object not a square (I know it'll still be a square but not in looks)

Tru · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:52

geiger said:
Someone mentions makign the background colour transparent by deleteing that colour but I tried that and it didnt work. How do I get the pink or white in a picture to be transparent so the picture is effectively just the object not a square (I know it'll still be a square but not in looks)

You need to set the transparency to the pink or white when you save it, it must be a gif or png.

edit: I've not used Photoshop for about 12 years so I'm not sure of the steps.

Sic · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:56

Tru said:
edit: I've not used Photoshop for about 12 years so I'm not sure of the steps.

slacker!

nice work between Docaroo and gord there. y'little gems

Pickers · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:59

I used to be part of a fiesta forum (can I link to it?).

People on there used to be amazing with the photo-chop and would virtually mod your car with anything you wanted to see how it would look.
If I can link to it, you may wanna check it out

Enfield · 15 Mar 2006 at 12:10

Pickers said:
I used to be part of a fiesta forum (can I link to it?).

People on there used to be amazing with the photo-chop and would virtually mod your car with anything you wanted to see how it would look.
If I can link to it, you may wanna check it out

FiestaTurbo.com?

geiger · 15 Mar 2006 at 12:13

Tru said:
You need to set the transparency to the pink or white when you save it, it must be a gif or png.

edit: I've not used Photoshop for about 12 years so I'm not sure of the steps.

Thanks, I saved it as a .gif. I guess I need to set something so it knows to be transparent but I forgot how, I remember doign this for a CS spray one time.

Iam using PSP8 atm

Sic · 15 Mar 2006 at 12:16

Pickers said:
I used to be part of a fiesta forum (can I link to it?).

People on there used to be amazing with the photo-chop and would virtually mod your car with anything you wanted to see how it would look.
If I can link to it, you may wanna check it out

ukFN?

Tru · 15 Mar 2006 at 12:17

geiger said:
Thanks, I saved it as a .gif. I guess I need to set something so it knows to be transparent but I forgot how, I remember doign this for a CS spray one time.

Iam using PSP8 atm

I used to have a lot of trouble with gifs and transparency with PSP8, try saving it as a PNG instead.