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December 29th 04 12:57 AM

Photoshop: Transparent airbrush??

I am trying to cut out a person from one image and paste them into
another and make it look fairly believable using Photoshop CS. I have
made a selection using the polygonal lasso tool and have pasted the
layer onto the background. I was pretty successful at cropping the
image however there are some areas that could use touching up. Is
there a tool were I could airbrush "transparent paint" to get rid of
the unwanted areas smoothly? Is there a better way of doing what I
want to do? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Harold

Gene Palmiter

December 29th 04 01:10 AM

There are more advanced ways...but from where you are now....don't use the
air brush...use a regular brush with a soft edge....very soft and quite
small....zoom in and have at it. You might want to fade the top layer so you
can see what is under it.

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I am trying to cut out a person from one image and paste them into
another and make it look fairly believable using Photoshop CS. I have
made a selection using the polygonal lasso tool and have pasted the
layer onto the background. I was pretty successful at cropping the
image however there are some areas that could use touching up. Is
there a tool were I could airbrush "transparent paint" to get rid of
the unwanted areas smoothly? Is there a better way of doing what I
want to do? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Harold

Frank ess

December 29th 04 01:11 AM

wrote:
I am trying to cut out a person from one image and paste them into
another and make it look fairly believable using Photoshop CS. I have
made a selection using the polygonal lasso tool and have pasted the
layer onto the background. I was pretty successful at cropping the
image however there are some areas that could use touching up. Is
there a tool were I could airbrush "transparent paint" to get rid of
the unwanted areas smoothly? Is there a better way of doing what I
want to do? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Harold

This may be unsophisticated, but I learned to make a second copy of the
background layer, and to mark a common registration point, then clone
from the second to the one you want to touch up. Transparent paint, yup.

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Frank ess

paul	December 29th 04 01:29 AM

wrote:

I am trying to cut out a person from one image and paste them into
another and make it look fairly believable using Photoshop CS. I have
made a selection using the polygonal lasso tool and have pasted the
layer onto the background. I was pretty successful at cropping the
image however there are some areas that could use touching up. Is
there a tool were I could airbrush "transparent paint" to get rid of
the unwanted areas smoothly? Is there a better way of doing what I
want to do? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Harold

The eraser with an "air brush" brush.

Here's a more forgiving method: Copy a very rough block of the person &
paste as a layer on top of your picture. Pull down menu: Layer Add
layer mask Hide all. Click the channels tab on the layer pallete &
turn on the mask & make it current, it will be a pale red. Erase out the
part you want to reveal & use a paint brush to add back when you erase
too far or use the smudge tool to push in & out.

Hunt	December 29th 04 01:58 AM

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says...

I am trying to cut out a person from one image and paste them into
another and make it look fairly believable using Photoshop CS. I have
made a selection using the polygonal lasso tool and have pasted the
layer onto the background. I was pretty successful at cropping the
image however there are some areas that could use touching up. Is
there a tool were I could airbrush "transparent paint" to get rid of
the unwanted areas smoothly? Is there a better way of doing what I
want to do? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Harold

Check out the use of Layer Masks. In alt.graphics.photoshop, you have a few
answers as to the best way to do what you wish.

Hunt

PS this might well be a good topic to X-post into all the NGs you wish to
query, as the answer(s) can benefit subscribers in each. Some frown on X-
posting, but I think this is a wonderful time to do it.

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