[Conor]

I have three questions really annoying me atm:


How do you proffesionally blend images?

When I do it, it looks really rough and the picture gets big white splodges all over it. This is when I use the blending images tool. Is there another way of doing it?


How do you make 'moving picture galleries?'

Eg: The housemate bar on the official website for Big Brother and other fansites, where the housemates picture scrolls along the page? Can you even do this on photoshop?


How can I cut out parts of an image smoothly.

When I use the magic wand/quick selection tool to cut parts of an image out, it has rough edges instead of smooth ones. Can I adjust the tool in any way, or use another method?

Thanks for reading, and each question answered will have Karma awarded.

[Matt]

1. Use the eraser
2. There is not a way of doing this in Photoshop
3. I have no idea

[Conor]

Thanks tonnes Matt! Really helpful. When will you turn your karma on?

Oh yeah - what do you need to make the moving gallery thing... anyone?

[xDramatick]

1. Take two images. Put one on top of the other. Place a mask on the top image (by pressing the button in between 'blending options' and 'create a new set' in the layers box), and use a black to white gradient across the edge of the image. It's more complicated than the rubber, but if used well, looks better.

2. Can't do in PS, probably in imageready with a huge filesize. It's done by HTML on the C4 BB websites.

3. Either use the polyagonal lasso tool and zoom in [that's what I do] OR go to filter > extract, draw around the image with the pen tool [maybe zoom in], fill, and hit extract. I prefer the polyagonal lasso tool myself, more control.

[Matt]

Originally posted by Conor
Thanks tonnes Matt! Really helpful. When will you turn your karma on?

Oh yeah - what do you need to make the moving gallery thing... anyone?

Javascript or Flash

[Conor]

Darren, thanks for the really detailed advice, Matt, thanks for more advice. Karma comming your way!

[Retroman]

Id go with Flash =]
That's if you can afford it or obtain it for free from someone.

You could even try to find someone with it, who is willing to send you it.
One of your friends could have it, or someone you know online, and you just didn't realise.

Then it's just a case of collecting your images, adding a motion tween and key frames etc, and just dragging and dropping where you want the images to move to and from.

[Conor]

Thak you very much Retro... karma.

Anyone going to turn it on?

[Retroman]

Oh why thankyou kindly...
I'll return the karma then, might as well =]

[Conor]

Thanks Retro

But theres no need to have too.

[Retroman]

I don't think anybody else was going to receive karma from me today lol...
So might as well send it to someone who left me some =]

Let us know if you get anywhere with finding Flash or something similar.
If it becomes too much of a problem for you to make a moving picture gallery, id look for someone to do it for you, or look for a website application.

Some websites let you submit pictures and turn them into a moving picture gallery for you, and give you the code to put on your website.

[Retroman]

*Shakes head at whoever just reduced his karma after it just going up*

Im going to narrow it down to all the people who would have any logical reason to reduce my karma, and even a few people who I think are capable of just reducing karma for no good reason..and reduce them all one by one ^_^ hope you're happy.

[Conor]

I will let you know asap, if I find one anyway. Thanks for the karma

[Conor]

More karma here:

How do you put effects like the 'diagonal line/criss cross' effect over images, and how do you find that effect to place it on the banner?

Also, how do you make the writing on banners transelusent?

[Conor]

Anyone... pleeease?

[xDramatick]

The lines thing are called scan lines

create a 9x9 transparent document, draw a black diagonal line through 3 pixels, and go to edit > define pattern. Use the fill tool, choose a pattern and just fill a new layer. if that don't make sense, just google 'scanline tutorials photoshop' or something.

idk about the translucent thing. You can reduce the opacity in the layers box though.