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Re: Backgrounds
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lugnet.castle
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Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:04:37 GMT
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WUBWUB@nospamWILDLINK.COM
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"Wilson Raska" <willy007_@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.castle, Stephen F. Roberts writes:
> > "Wilson Raska" <willy007_@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In the past couple of months, I've been taking various pictures of the sky,
> > > specifically for these pictures. Last night, after playing around with
> > > Photoshop for a long time, I finally figured out how to put pictures of my
> > > castle things on those backgrounds. I have a couple of airship pictures with
> > > clouds in the background to make it look like it's flying. Here they are if
> > > you want to take a look at 'em:
> > >
> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=692
> >
> > ...very nice! seamless even! so what's ur trick? :-)
>
> Well, first I take the picture with a piece of bright green fabric behind it.
> Then I open up the background picture and minimize it (You'll need this
> later). Then I used the magic wand tool to select all the green. Then I go
> to the select menu and click on Inverse, this makes it so only the LEGO is
> selected. You can then open back up the background picture, and then with the
> move tool in the toolbar, move the selected LEGO to the background picture.
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> After reading some past posts, I've learned that if you can set the tolerance
> level on the magic wand to High, it will get closer to the LEGO. Since I
> didn't know about that, this is what I did to touch them up:
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> After cropping the picture to the desired size, (for the next steps, I zoomed
> in on the area I wanted to edit) go along the edges with the airbrush set at
> the second smallest brush size. To get a color match to the background, use
> the eyedropper tool to take a sample of the background color. Then use the
> airbrush to clean it up and get rid of the green fringe.
>
> That's all I did, even if it's not the most professional way of doing it.
...Ive tried doing the same kind of thing using both green and bright orange, but it
always leavs a bit of bleed thru colour at the edges where the model meets the background
:-/ (really hideous with the orange too!). :-/ Green didn't leave the jaggies as bad, but
tended to bleed more when I had green in the model (the magic wand would go out and select
all the green in themodel too :-/
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
wamalug guy (http://wamalug.org)
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lugnet #160
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