Resizing pics to insert in your creations how?

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Jan 11, 2007
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Hi

I am following this tutorial:

http://www.photoshoplab.net/tutorial,Designing+Navigation+He ader+for+a+Men%27s+Site,594.html

I am at the part where I have to find a male model pic and insert it. Well google served me as many bare chested dudes as I want but how do I use a particular pic I select?
Do I need to resize it? How?
Then I guess at some point I got to use the lasso tool to remove the dude from the background, is that right?

Here is a pic I played with but ran into too many problems, I wanted to keep only the guy and the ball and cut him half-way to his chest:

http://www.tam.co.il/15_10_2004/images/male_model.jpg

Be patient and specific I am fairly new (Not totally though.)

Thanks a lot

Patrick
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Mike Hyndman
Jan 12, 2007
"varois83" wrote in message
Hi

I am following this tutorial:

http://www.photoshoplab.net/tutorial,Designing+Navigation+He ader+for+a+Men%27s+Site,594.html
I am at the part where I have to find a male model pic and insert it. Well google served me as many bare chested dudes as I want but how do I use a particular pic I select?
Do I need to resize it? How?
Then I guess at some point I got to use the lasso tool to remove the dude from the background, is that right?

Here is a pic I played with but ran into too many problems, I wanted to keep only the guy and the ball and cut him half-way to his chest:
http://www.tam.co.il/15_10_2004/images/male_model.jpg

Be patient and specific I am fairly new (Not totally though.)
Thanks a lot
Patrick

Resizing is done with the transform tool Ctrl+T on the keyboard. A point to consider is that the images you wish to "composite" should idealy be of the same resolution. A 72 ppi image tacked into a 300 ppi image doesn’t look too good.

Removing the background can be done in several ways, you can as you say select the model with the lasoo tool, invert and then delete. You could use the Magic wand to select the green and then delete it. You could use the color range command to again select the green for deletion. You could use a combination of all of these and more.
All of the above methods destroys pixels, my personal choice would be use a layer mask. You would still make your selections as above but you would then make the mask active and yoiur selection would then be transfered to the mask. What you would then see is not the background being removed by deletion; the background would be hidden by the mask, allowing what is under the layer to show through.
Have a look at the following link
http://www.pixel2life.com/search/4/compositing/1/
This site is an excellent tutorial "search engine" well worth a bookmark. When you have exhausted the compositing tutorials, look for layer masks.

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varois83
Jan 12, 2007
Mike

I really do enjoy your answers on this forum, very informative and helpfull. I have taken one compositing tutorial already from that page and learned so much.
Also great tip on keeping the resolution at 72 on all the pics.

Thank-you so very much

Patrick
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Mike Hyndman
Jan 12, 2007
"varois83" wrote in message
Mike

I really do enjoy your answers on this forum, very informative and helpfull. I have taken one compositing tutorial already from that page and learned so much.
Also great tip on keeping the resolution at 72 on all the pics.
Thank-you so very much
Patrick,

Many thanks for your comments, you are very welcome. If you are printing, you need a much higher resolution, 200-300 at least, 72ppi is usually only for display on screen.(web pages etc) What I was saying is that if you get your images from a variety of sources, make sure the resolution is all the same wherever possible.

Regards

Mike H
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varois83
Jan 14, 2007
Many thanks for your comments, you are very welcome.

Well deserved.

If you are printing,
you need a much higher resolution, 200-300 at least,

No printing here, studying web design.

Thanks again

Patrick
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Mike Hyndman
Jan 14, 2007
"varois83" wrote in message
Many thanks for your comments, you are very welcome.

Well deserved.

If you are printing,
you need a much higher resolution, 200-300 at least,

No printing here, studying web design.

Thanks again
Patrick,

‘Tis a pleasure doing business…;)

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