New Contest: Photomanipulations [WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!!!!!!]

reply to post by carzie


after some consideration I think that image need re-cropping, lots of white artefacts I noticed from the last entry I did, which im also noticing on yours, any volunteers ?

mini contest to see if anyone can crop it so its a clean as clean can be when converted to a gif or png

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Hi everyone, This is my first contest. I am learning photoshop, I am in the 9th grade and love creating stuff with photoshop.

This is my second entry..

reply to post by jaredcoy


Hey I like that, I like the colors going on, awesome shades of green

reply to post by funbox


Hey... I will cut it out with the pen tool and post it in a few...

reply to post by funbox


Here is the image as a png. I cut it out as best I could, but it was a small image...

reply to post by carzie


perfect , You Win

not a single white artefact ,

your prize ,.. ill star every post you have ever written

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reply to post by funbox


if you cut it out "close enough" with a little bit of white, you can then just go into the blending options on the layer and do a "Color Overlay" to black. Then all pixels are turned black

reply to post by funbox


Great!!! I have only written two posts

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan


ill give it a whirl on the original and compare it to the cropped version carzie did , but no stars for you if its better , I don't have a spare 6 weeks ,
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hmmm im glad you were beaten to the punch

it seems like there was a little aliasing on the originals , I never spotted it, but the overlay seems to have done the trick nice shortcut to a crisp edge


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reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan


Thanks BFFT for the TIP on cutting out images,
that will be very helpful for me.
Cheers
Ektar

reply to post by funbox


just give them to jaredcoy. It'll be much easier for you.

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan


Yep, that's what I did, I had some strays and did a color overlay...

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan


whose jaredcoy ? , and why would he make it easier for me ?

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reply to post by jaredcoy


I am proud of my son !!!!! How many stars can I give him

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan


dam im so unobservant sorry Jarodcoy , I see you in the thread

ive changed my mind Bigfatfurrytexan
you cant beat the pentool under any circumstances , the overlay did an impressive job , but compare the 0 tolerance edge from a nice shaped line



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reply to post by funbox


another way to do it is to go to image> exposure, and turn the exposure all the way to 0. Itll remove all light from the layer and render it completely black.

if you have something like grey, then you have an aliasing problem. I am not real bueno with anti alias.

using the exposure at 0

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan



maybe you should pop over to the Curiosity: Potential Anomalies (Update 01/2014) all sort of image artefacts over there and some great explanations of how they appear

bit of a long read , but im sure you're used to that

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