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Hey Anthony, great tutorial! It was fun to read how other people go about
editing their pictures. If you don't mind, I'd like to share with you a few
techniques I've learned that might make your editing procedure a little more
efficient.
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> Back to the picture. I then changed the eraser size to its maximum size and
> decreased the eraser strength to 50%.
>
> With almost all tools in Photoshop, there are strentths, or whatever particular
> term they use for it. Photoshop eraser I believe uses the term Opacity.
> Strength works too. In any case, an eraser set at 100% Opacity will erase the
> image totally. An eraser set at 0% will have no effect. An eraser set at 50%
> (or anywhere inbetween 0 and 100) will erase only a bit of the image, creating
> a 'ghost' effect. You'll still be able to see the picture, but you'll be able
> to see whatever is behind it as well, kind of like painted glass.
>
> By erasing the top picture, and then moving it till it matched the picture
> below it, I was able to encorporate the best parts of both pictures to gain
> total detail.
To get this same effect without going to the eraser tool, you can just
double click on the upper layer in the Layers Toolbox and adjust the opacity
in the box that comes up. Or, when you have your layer selected, you can
use the drop-down box in the Layers Toolbox and you can adjust the opacity
with a slider bar.
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> The reason why I don't use magic wand is because when you clear the area inside
> the magic wand, it deletes half of the pixels that border the area. No, it
> doesn't totally delete them, but it is the same as setting the eraser strength
> to 50 to all the border pixels. Also, since its the computer picking out
> pixels, its far from perfect. A good note, though, reclicking the magic wand
> won't give you the same result all the time, so sometimes you can get lucky and
> select exactly what you want. Also, ivory or tan walls, as most houses have,
> will match colors of light grey on certain parts of MOCs, and the magic wand
> will erase your MOC as well as the wall!
>
> This is why I usually do the only thing I can bring myself to do. Zoom the
> picture in to about 200-300% and delete pixel by pixel. Its long, its tedious,
> but you get a cleaner removal of background (though sometimes I cheat and use
> Magic Wand, on some of the pictures I've done, it shows rather badly).
This is how I removed the background when I first started, but have you ever
played around with the little pen tool? It's the button right beneath the
blur/smudge button and it works soooo great for cutting out pictures and
removing the background. Here's how it works: The main function of the pen
tool is to create points wherever you click. These points will make up your
selection. To cut out your MOC, just click on a point on the border of your
MOC and start following along, making new points with the pen tool. When
you get done and connect the last point to the first point, right-click on
the selection and click Make Selection, then right-click on it again and
choose Turn Off Path. Now that you have your MOC selected, you can do
whatever you want with it.
You'll probably have to touch it up a little and erase some extra parts that
you couldn't get to with the pen tool, but this is the best method I've
found thus far and it sure beats erasing pics pixel by pixel.
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I'm glad you took the time to do this little tutorial, as I'm sure it
introduced a few people to photo-editing and the methods to go about it. I
know, for me, Photoshop seemed overwhelming at first since I didn't know
hardly any of the functions, but as I just started experimenting with things
and reading a few tutorials, I slowly gained more and more knowledge about
photo editing. So thanks again Anthony for introducing people to the great
possiblities of LEGO-editing.
Wilson
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