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Answer» I need help in PSP. I can do the basics and some harder stuff but I just don't understand layers. Is there a simple rule or solution to help me with this. The instructions are greek to me! I want to have maybe just a part of a picture (say a pic with two BABIES close together and I only want a pic with the one baby in it) as one picture. Have tried unmemorable times to make a collage also and cannt do it. It this hopeless for me?Are you saying you WOULD like to EXTRACT one baby from a photo of two? Remember that a photograph is a two dimension capture - it does not contain any information about what might be behind your subjects. Our minds are trained to think three-dimensionally, but a computer cannot perceive depth in this way. So you pretty much have to "cut" one subject out of a photo. This can be fairly painstaking with PSP. You can draw around the desired image with the lasso tool, or use the "magic wand". In the latter case, play around with the RGB tolerance until you get satisfactory results. You can combine both selection tools; CTRL adds more to a selection; SHIFT takes away (or it's the other way round).Thanks but I am more computer ILLITERATE than I thought! So that means I must be pretty bad. I love scrapbooking and am working on a wedding gift for my daughters upcoming wedding. She is a twin. Basically I cropped her brother out of the picture and where there were still parts of his body I cloned the background and blanket. It looks ok. I never scrapbooked in PSP but started a new file with a 4x6 pink background. Then I want to put her picture as a new layer on this background and any other little pics I might want. I can't seem to get anything ON THE PINK background. If I appear hopeless please feel free not to respond. Thanks for your help thus far. [smiley=rolleyes.gif] [smiley=rolleyes.gif] [smiley=rolleyes.gif] [smiley=rolleyes.gif]It sounds like all you need to do is copy & paste the baby picture onto the pink picture...right? Do you want to FINISH up with a baby picture including some background on a larger pink picture?Dah! I didn't realize you could get a picture into PSP by copy & paste. I just tried it and it works for as many pics as you want on the background layer you start out with. I can even add tube pictures to it or whatever. But I still haven't master understanding layers. I pasted the first pic as a new layer and the second as a new layer also. I could use the move tool and move them to overlap but I could not mask them so they had smooth transitions and looked like a collage. But hey, you've given me something more to play with and I thank you so much for that. Anything else you think of I'll be glad to try! Thanks again.As Rob said, if you just want a piece of the baby, like the head with no other background you will need to cut it out with a freehand tool or the magic lasoo thingies, then just copy & paste to your desired pink picture. This can be quite difficult with a shaky hand using a mouse. If you were doing a lot of it I think one of those writing tablet things would work on PSP... someone here will know for sure.Layers are easier to understand if you've ever working with overhead projector acetates. Think of several of them in a pile. It's exactly the same concept just with more features - like you can change the transparency of the images on each "acetate"/layer, and change the way layers are blended together (not that anything other than the "normal" mode is much use). Make sure you bring up the layers toolbar in PSP - it makes things a little clearer. You can drag and drop layers higher up or lower down the stack and see the effect of rearranging the layer order. |
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