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RE: Need someone' s help - 11/8/2002 9:11:23
Rio13,
I went to the site above and I still have no clue what you' re trying to do. Let me know and I' ll respond.
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RE: Need someone' s help - 11/8/2002 10:43:31
In PSP 7 you use Selections>Modify>Feather and from the dialogue box you can decide how much feathering.
Now, a question, and I' ll bet Nancy can answer this:
I can' t perform this function because everything is greyed out in my Selections tab. What' s up? I' ve noticed this before.
Dave
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RE: Need someone' s help - 11/8/2002 13:30:25
Make sure the image is active--click on it. then try the selections. I have never had the selection tool greyed out like that unless the image isn' t active...I have found that it' s usually something simple that keeps me from doing things (like I need to " Convert to Raster Layer" to apply certain effects).
You may find some help with on the Jasc website--they have a lot of useful tutorials. You could also go here to the PSP User' s Group...they' re as helpful with PSP as Outfronters are with FrontPage.
http://www.pspug.org/
Also, here is a great resource of PSP Tutorials--the website is searchable, so if you want to find a particular effect you could type it in the search box and a list of appropriate tuts will come up:
http://www.psplinks.com/
I have several tut links for PSP, but the above two, as well as the Jasc Website Learning Center (http://www.jasc.com) are the onesI use the most.
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RE: Need someone' s help - 11/8/2002 17:56:41
Well, here' s a very easy trick to do in PSP or any other image editing program.
Create another layer above the present one. Use your paint brush to paint a white area to the left, right, top or bottom. On the Layers Window, simply drag the contrast bar from 100% to whatever gives you the desired effect. Presto! Instant fading.
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RE: Need someone' s help - 11/8/2002 18:33:47
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Make sure you are on the proper layer (can' t feather something that isn' t there!)... and make sure the image is set up for 16M colors...
Okey Dokey. What the heck is the proper layer? What do I have to do to a photo to produce the proper layer to feather it?
I have played and played with this but I can' t get it.
Dave
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RE: Need someone' s help - 11/8/2002 22:28:24
Well, this is what I do: I click the image to make it active. A photo is usually only one layer unless you' ve been doing other things to it. Pick the selection tool, and choose how much feathering you want. Select the part of the image you want then COPY then PASTE as a new layer onto a new image that has the same background color as your page/table/cell whatever...) Then merge all, flatten. Then optimize it.
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RE: Need someone' s help - 11/9/2002 0:49:53
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I can' t perform this function because everything is greyed out in my Selections tab. What' s up? I' ve noticed this before.
I don' t mean for this to sound insulting, but just to be certain: Did you make a selection first?
You have to have something selected first before you can modify the selection.
Actually to make the effect you' re after, it might be better to apply a mask. I looked for a tutorial for using masks, but didn' t find a decent one. I don' t use PSP much any more, especially for masks, because they are so much easier in Photoshop.
I' ll post a link for masks if I find a good one.
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I found one that explains masks pretty good.
http://www.niagara.com/~theshack/tutorials/masks/masks.html
For the faded look, follow the above tutorial, and just make a gradient mask, using black and white. If you surf around some of the PSP sites, there are usually plenty to download, and I thought PSP also came with several.
Nancy
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RE: Need someone' s help - 11/9/2002 7:11:36
I know absolutely nothing about PSP but here' s what I found in Photoshop. For a few of the questions asked here, the solution may be to add a transparent layer.
Sometimes when you open an image it opens as a background layer, which is locked. When this occurs, menus are usually grayed out. If I want to do something with the image, I " select all" and " cut" it, add a *new* layer, then " paste" onto the new layer. Menus should now be accessible for your image once its layer is selected.
Sometimes I also use the suggestion by peppargal to " Convert to Raster Layer."
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RE: Need someone' s help - 11/9/2002 12:11:21
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Paint Shop Pro is the most frustrating program I have ever seen and Nancy knows I' ve been struggling with it for over two years.
What version are you using? I know there are some changes between version 5.5 (or is it just 5) and version 7. If you' re reading a tutorial for 7 while using version 5 then you would certainly have some minor discrepancies. I' ve been able to use tuts for other versions (I use PSP7) but sometimes I can' t; I just look for a tut on version 7.
Really...I urge you to join the PSP Users Group. They have folks who are PSP experts and who use different versions of the software. It is one of the best resources for PSP I have found....while the format of the message board forum is clumsy compared to this one, it' s still a great forum.
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RE: Need someone' s help - 11/12/2002 6:46:06
Hi again,
After a day or two looking at the links provided on this post, I now have a fair idea of how to fade a picture into a background, use masks, etc. I now have an easier question for you all.
Please take a look a this link ( http://www.instantwebincomesites.com/create1.html ). I' ve been trying to figure out what is used to create this. Do I use masks, feathering or what?
Again, any help would be grateful.
Regards,
Rio
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