Simviation Forum - PS cut and paste editing help, please!

Feb 8^th, 2007 at 1:35pm

krigl Offline
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Hi photoshop gurus, I'm trying to do some cut and paste editing with photoshop. Any tips on how to make a plane blend in with the background so it doen't look so 'stuck on'. Or links to tutes? I don't have time to use the pen tool so I'm using lassoo, results not bad from a whitescreen shot and after erasing etc, but the plane still looks like a 2d stuck on thing.

Also, DODGE and BURN are two words I often hear. My photoshop and guide are all in Czech and have no idea where to locate these buttons. If someone could post some screenshots below where the relevant tree with all the choices is open and rings around the 'dodge' and 'burn' buttons I would be most grateful, as I want to make some special effects.

Finally, fire, explosions, smoke. Any links to good tutorials very welcome. I've found some after extensive searching, but, for example, adding steam to a cup of coffee isn't exactly what I had in mind Roll Eyes

Thanks

Krigl

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Reply #1 - Feb 8^th, 2007 at 3:11pm

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For a blend thing, try opacity slider on the added image, It creates a controllable transparancy to the image your adding, that combined with a good eraser to eliminate hard edges may be enough to get you started in better blending. Opacity slider is in the layers pallete, just make sure you've selected the appropriate layer before you try it.

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Reply #2 - Feb 8^th, 2007 at 3:58pm

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Clipper wrote on Feb 8^th, 2007 at 3:11pm:

For a blend thing, try opacity slider on the added image, It creates a controllable transparancy to the image your adding, that combined with a good eraser to eliminate hard edges may be enough to get you started in better blending. Opacity slider is in the layers pallete, just make sure you've selected the appropriate layer before you try it.

Thanks for the tip! I can do opacity with layers now, but less opacity = see-through plane, no? And what is a 'good eraser'? I've tried using an eraser with some opacity and, er, fuzziness, but somehow it lead to holes in my pic...

O God, I'm such a NOOB!

All tips for this noob very welcome!

I'll credit helpers in my next Barret posts! (OOooooh!)

Krigl

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Reply #3 - Feb 8^th, 2007 at 4:09pm