How do I do this?

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Lunaray
May 30, 2004
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Greetings!

Perhaps someone here can help me!

I took this photo at an annual campout I go to called "Rootfest" and what I did was to have 8 people stand in line (one person for each letter) and draw their particular letter with an emergency road flare and then pass the flare to the person beside them so that the word "Rootfest" would be spelled out in front of my camera with it set to "bulb" for a time-exposure. It turned out just the way that I wanted it to, but now I would like to somehow select just the writing and make it have a transparent background. I did a ‘Select’ by color and sampled the black background and chose ‘Inverse’ and the writing is selected, but that’s where I’m stumped! When I try & drag the selected writing to a new transparent canvas, the whole frame (with black background) moves! Can someone help me out here?

Thank you!

Ray
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emmab
May 30, 2004
Ray try ctrl/C to copy and on your new canvas ctrl/V to paste it.

JohnT
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"Lunaray" wrote in message
Greetings!

Perhaps someone here can help me!

I took this photo at an annual campout I go to called "Rootfest" and what
I
did was to have 8 people stand in line (one person for each letter) and
draw
their particular letter with an emergency road flare and then pass the
flare
to the person beside them so that the word "Rootfest" would be spelled out in front of my camera with it set to "bulb" for a time-exposure. It
turned
out just the way that I wanted it to, but now I would like to somehow
select
just the writing and make it have a transparent background. I did a ‘Select’ by color and sampled the black background and chose ‘Inverse’ and the writing is selected, but that’s where I’m stumped! When I try & drag the selected writing to a new transparent canvas, the whole frame (with black background) moves! Can someone help me out here?

Thank you!

Ray
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V1nc3nt
May 30, 2004
"Lunaray" wrote in message
Greetings!

Perhaps someone here can help me!

I took this photo at an annual campout I go to called "Rootfest" and what
I
did was to have 8 people stand in line (one person for each letter) and
draw
their particular letter with an emergency road flare and then pass the
flare
to the person beside them so that the word "Rootfest" would be spelled out in front of my camera with it set to "bulb" for a time-exposure. It
turned
out just the way that I wanted it to, but now I would like to somehow
select
just the writing and make it have a transparent background. I did a ‘Select’ by color and sampled the black background and chose ‘Inverse’ and the writing is selected, but that’s where I’m stumped! When I try & drag the selected writing to a new transparent canvas, the whole frame (with black background) moves! Can someone help me out here?

Thank you!

Ray
—
_______
www.rayspace.com

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V1nc3nt
May 30, 2004
"Lunaray" wrote in message
Greetings!

Perhaps someone here can help me!

I took this photo at an annual campout I go to called "Rootfest" and what
I
did was to have 8 people stand in line (one person for each letter) and
draw
their particular letter with an emergency road flare and then pass the
flare
to the person beside them so that the word "Rootfest" would be spelled out in front of my camera with it set to "bulb" for a time-exposure. It
turned
out just the way that I wanted it to, but now I would like to somehow
select
just the writing and make it have a transparent background. I did a ‘Select’ by color and sampled the black background and chose ‘Inverse’ and the writing is selected, but that’s where I’m stumped! When I try & drag the selected writing to a new transparent canvas, the whole frame (with black background) moves! Can someone help me out here?

Thank you!

Ray
—
_______
www.rayspace.com
Try copy/paste the selection
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Basileus
May 30, 2004
Lunaray wrote:
Greetings!

Perhaps someone here can help me!

I took this photo at an annual campout I go to called "Rootfest" and what I did was to have 8 people stand in line (one person for each letter) and draw their particular letter with an emergency road flare and then pass the flare to the person beside them so that the word "Rootfest" would be spelled out in front of my camera with it set to "bulb" for a time-exposure. It turned out just the way that I wanted it to, but now I would like to somehow select just the writing and make it have a transparent background. I did a ‘Select’ by color and sampled the black background and chose ‘Inverse’ and the writing is selected, but that’s where I’m stumped! When I try & drag the selected writing to a new transparent canvas, the whole frame (with black background) moves! Can someone help me out here?

Thank you!

Ray

The select by color range then getting your fuzziness set right sounds like it’d work alright to me. Make sure your working layer isn’t still set as background. once you have your desired area selected, I’d just copy it, open a new image and paste it down. Then you’re all set to drop it into a psd for use in something else later or a png24 so you preserve the varying degrees of transparency & could toss it on a web page & the transparancy levels would remain… well, unless you’re using ms exploder ,)

Phil
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Voivod
May 30, 2004
On Sun, 30 May 2004 22:13:37 +0100, "JohnT"
scribbled:

PS – come on in and post your questions

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Lunaray
May 31, 2004
Thanks all!

Duh, I never thought of copying & pasting, it worked beautifully; wow, I learned a new trick! (seriously)

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