[PirateNinja415]

love the wallpaper pearce, love the way the paper looks

[MJB23]

That looks really good.

Did you make the paper background or take it from somewhere else?

[Pearce]

Oh I made the paper from scratch. It was a plain white crinkled envelope.

I messed around with different colour overlays, linear dodge layers etc and then laid down some old script and stained/burned/erased it etc.

I'm glad you like it .

[MJB23]

I saw this and thought it was pretty cool for anyone looking for some tutorials.

http://www.tutorialmagazine.com/33-b...-of-april-2009

[plazzman]

Interesting stuff, most pretty easy, but I liked the fantasy room alot.

[Pearce]

Nice one MJB, they'll help alot of people starting out and those who are more familiar with Photoshop too.

[steph05050]

moved this to the tutorial section


those are great tuts MJB....

[SimplyNate]

Here is some interesting stuff that I've ran across and bookmarked.

Cool Photo Effects:
http://www.designshard.com/video-tut...cts-tutorials/

Cool Tutorials:
http://www.tutorialmagazine.com/33-b...of-april-2009/ (Whole site is awesome)

Photoshop Shapes:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008...custom-shapes/

850 Plus Tech Brushes:
http://naldzgraphics.net/freebies/fr...for-photoshop/

Some Interesting Photograph Techniques:
http://www.thephotoargus.com/freebie...r-photography/

I noticed MJ posted 1 already.

[JT42]

Wondering if someone can tell me the easiest way to lift just a portion of a photo. Just as an example, lets say this photo of Mike Brown:



What is the easiest way to get just Mike Brown out of the photo so I can place him onto a textured background to make a sig? Do I have to use the Lasso tool because I find it difficult to keep a steady hand and get a good cutout?

[Negative2]

Originally Posted by JT42

Wondering if someone can tell me the easiest way to lift just a portion of a photo. Just as an example, lets say this photo of Mike Brown:



What is the easiest way to get just Mike Brown out of the photo so I can place him onto a textured background to make a sig? Do I have to use the Lasso tool because I find it difficult to keep a steady hand and get a good cutout?

Sometimes the magic wand works great. Theres one on Corel thats called SmartEdge that cuts around the area you select but it isn't 100% effective.

If there are too many lines then I'll just do a rough cut around the whole thing then take a tiny eraser to the outline. Paste it onto a transparent background, save it and shampow, you have yourself a cut out.

Shouldn't take you too long once you get used to it.