Friggenfrustrated Cs2 Help

[DarkHorse]

OK, so ive a brain desiese,
IM SLOW, and im ready to toos my friggenlaptop out the window,

all i want is to take a shadowed hawk, and put it onto a pic of a windmill,

ive tried the DAM tutorials, in CS2, ive looked over the internet,
but i guess im just stupid,

i cannot find anywhere, a simple,
step by STEP HOW TO, walk it through,
all i get is DAM oh you should know these terms, and know when to go to a pic and this and friggen that,

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE THERES A FRIGGEN SIMPLE TOUTORIAL
ON HOW TO DO THIS????

I BOUGHT A BOOK,
I GUESS IM TO FRIGGEN BRAIN DEAD TO FIGURE OUT THAT ALSO,

I HATE AUTO-CAD FOR THE SAME DAM REASONS IM BEGINNING TO HAYTE cs2

you have to be collage edumacated to friggen understand it,
i used to be,
before i hit my DAM head,

any help apriciated,
there im done with my rant, and my laptops safe,

frustrated
johnp

[gmarblestone]

lookup "i suck at photoshop" on youtube. I think the #2 describes putting a cat into a bag, kinda like what you want :).

They are funny, but it might actually help....

haha,

G

[mivy00]

It might help to post the two pictures so we can get a visual of what you are trying to accomplish.

[mdparthum]

Check out Scott Kelby's or Dave Cross's books. They help me out ALOT!

[DarkHorse]

im trying to take this shadow pic of the hawk,
and simply,,,right,,,
place it onto the windmill pic,

no,
its not an easy task for me, ive a brain desiese that causes me to have a very hard time learning,
unless there are step, by step, 2cd grade instructions, color cryaons and lots of booze,

[gmarblestone]

i am not joking.. check out the "I suck at photoshop" videos. They explain pretty well how to do this.

G

[mivy00]

Try this.

Open the Hawk picture in photo shop
Click Select at the top
Click Color range in the drop down
Click on the background ( not the hawk )
Some of the picture will be white this is the area you are selecting
play with the fuzziness slider to get more white
when all of the hawk is black and most of the background is white
choose the eyedropper on the left with the + next to it and click on the gray dots in the white area.

Once it looks like most of the hawk is black and most of the background is white choose ok
you should now have a selection
Go back up to select and choose invert because you want the hawk not the background
choose one of your selection tools ( Tool in the top left corner of your tools pallette )
right click on the hawk and choose Layer Via Copy
Open the windmill picture
click on the hawk and drag him to the windmill picture.

You may still need to resize the hawk to make him smaller
if so go to Edit -> Transform -> Scale
then click one of the corners and resize him
If you hold down shift while doing this the proportians will remain the same

[mivy00]

There are probably 30 diffrent ways to do this one thing in photoshop so their might be an easier way. But that is the way that came to mind first

[mivy00]

Playing with it an easier way might be
Open both pictures
Click the hawk picture
Press control + A
Press control + C
click the windmill picture
Press control + V
make sure the hawk is selected in the layer pallette
In the drop down on the layers pallette that says normal
Drop it down and choose pin light

You may need to paint with some black paint on the hawk......and you still may need to resize it like you did in the previous example

( this wouldnt work everytime but because it is a siloutte it works fairly well )

[DarkHorse]

MATT,
THANK YOU VERY MUCH,
IM GRINNIN EAR TO EAR, NOW,
i like yr explination, i understood it,
thank you,

heres what i got playing with yr crayons,

johnp

AGAIN THANK YOU,
IT MEANS ALOT TO ME,

Originally Posted by mivy00

Try this.

Open the Hawk picture in photo shop
Click Select at the top
Click Color range in the drop down
Click on the background ( not the hawk )
Some of the picture will be white this is the area you are selecting
play with the fuzziness slider to get more white
when all of the hawk is black and most of the background is white
choose the eyedropper on the left with the + next to it and click on the gray dots in the white area.

Once it looks like most of the hawk is black and most of the background is white choose ok
you should not have a selection
Go back up to select and choose invert because you want the hawk not the background
choose one of your selection tools ( Tool in the top left corner of your tools pallette )
right click on the hawk and choose Layer Via Copy
Open the windmill picture
click on the hawk and drag him to the windmill picture.

You may still need to resize the hawk to make him smaller
if so go to Edit -> Transform -> Scale
then click one of the corners and resize him
If you hold down shift while doing this the proportians will remain the same

[mivy00]

Looks good.

Anytime.

[carrbowl]

GO JOHN!!!!! (cheerleader icon iserted!!!)

[DarkHorse]

This is where i was going eventualy,
for this photo,
its one of my sunrise pics, and needed something,

IS THIS A WALL HANGER? or does it need something?
Is the hawk in the wrong place? you think?

johnp

[gmarblestone]

maybe some highlights on the bird to make it "fit" better... The windmill looks fine, but the sunrise lighting doesn't match. Nice sunrise!

G

[carrbowl]

Good job...you will enjoy that!!