Photographer needs a Photoshop Guru

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dan_elliott
Feb 3, 2007
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I’ve brought in jpeg sloppy borders onto an album-sized, black palette page. I want to drop my client images into these custom templates, so that all you see are the images and the fades of that image on the borders. In effect, I need the framed effect to be inversed.
How can I make Photoshop see the shades?

How do I cut it out, basically, but NOT in a manner like the wand tool where it just gives me a clear edge. I need the opacities the brushed down look, and I’m stuck.

I don’t want to see shades of white and gray, I just want to see shades of my images at different opacity, brushed in like the frame.
I’m tired of the album design programs and I just want to start making my own. Any ideas to enlighten me? Please??

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Bernard_E_Saper
Feb 3, 2007
Dan: One way to go would be to make a selection around the images using the lasso tool, and to feather that selection. This should do what you have in mind. Bernie
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Donald_Reese
Feb 3, 2007
Nice body of work. you seem to have a good grasp on photoshop techniques and creating unique images. i am always impressed when i see mundane locations,that are brought to life with a good eye and some creativity.
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dan_elliott
Feb 3, 2007
thanks folks. We got it now.
Here is the answer from another photographer on another forum with more brains than me:

1. Open your black page with white openings.
2. Make a new layer and fill it with white.
3. Make the black page the active layer, Select All, Copy. Click the eyeball to turn off the visibility of the black page.
4. Make the white layer active, and add a layer mask (square button with round circle at the bottom of the Layers palette)
5. Go to the Channels palette and click the eyeball of the Layer mask to make this the active layer. Paste.
6. Deselect. Click on the eyeball of the white layer.
7. The layer mask (represented on the layer by the icon on the right) should already be active (double line around it). Hit Command i (PC: Control i) to Invert the mask.
8. You now have a white page with cutouts for the images. Just drag your images in UNDERNEATH the white page layer, size and position them.

I added a color overlay to the white page layer, turned it all into an action, and off we go.

Happy Shooting!

Dan

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