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RC Flyer
Jul 19, 2005
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Just starting to learn about Photoshop a bit and wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I’m trying to take part of an image and make it part of another but I only want it in that particular shape. Ex: Pic 1 is a flower. Pic 2 is a face. I want to select a certain area in the center of the flower and put the face in it. I want the face to be in the shape (or fill) only the area that I selected on the flower. I don’t know if this makes any sense or not but I don’t know how else to describe what it is I’m wanting to do. If anyone understands plz gimme a clue on where to start. Thanx!!

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Owamanga
Jul 19, 2005
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:14:29 -0500, "RC Flyer" wrote:

Just starting to learn about Photoshop a bit and wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I’m trying to take part of an image and make it part of another but I only want it in that particular shape. Ex: Pic 1 is a flower. Pic 2 is a face. I want to select a certain area in the center of the flower and put the face in it. I want the face to be in the shape (or fill) only the area that I selected on the flower. I don’t know if this makes any sense or not but I don’t know how else to describe what it is I’m wanting to do. If anyone understands plz gimme a clue on where to start.

There are a number of ways of doing this, here is just one:

Open pic 1, create a new layer, open pic 2, copy entire pic 2 to into the new empty layer of pic 1.

Set transparency of the new layer to 50% and do a free-transform-scale to get the face image to be the right size in comparison to the flower.

Now add a mask to that layer, select the mask and start painting out any bits of the face image that you don’t want showing.

Finally, set transparency of the new layer back to 100%.

If you don’t want to use masks, you can lasoo the face, do a select: invert selection, select : feather selection (try 10 pixels to start with, this prevents a sharp transition where the cut will be made) and delete the selection (hit DEL) leaving the face.


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RF
RC Flyer
Jul 20, 2005
Thx much for the suggestion! Thats exactly what I was looking for. Hopefully I can figure this prog out and help someone else out in the near future!!!

"Owamanga" wrote in message
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:14:29 -0500, "RC Flyer" wrote:

Just starting to learn about Photoshop a bit and wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I’m trying to take part of an image and make it part of another but I only want it in that particular shape. Ex:
Pic
1 is a flower. Pic 2 is a face. I want to select a certain area in the center of the flower and put the face in it. I want the face to be in the shape (or fill) only the area that I selected on the flower. I don’t know
if
this makes any sense or not but I don’t know how else to describe what it
is
I’m wanting to do. If anyone understands plz gimme a clue on where to
start.
There are a number of ways of doing this, here is just one:
Open pic 1, create a new layer, open pic 2, copy entire pic 2 to into the new empty layer of pic 1.

Set transparency of the new layer to 50% and do a free-transform-scale to get the face image to be the right size in comparison to the flower.

Now add a mask to that layer, select the mask and start painting out any bits of the face image that you don’t want showing.

Finally, set transparency of the new layer back to 100%.
If you don’t want to use masks, you can lasoo the face, do a select: invert selection, select : feather selection (try 10 pixels to start with, this prevents a sharp transition where the cut will be made) and delete the selection (hit DEL) leaving the face.


Owamanga!
http://www.pbase.com/owamanga

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