SIMPLE PS QUESTION
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- rhymez
i have a image of a yellow spray thingie which i'd liketo get into a piece im working with so obviosly theres the white bg when i drag the layer to the pieice so i need to blend it 'multiply'. but by doing this the yellow color gets fcked all up cuz the bg on the piece is blue.
- thosethat0
use 'select colour range' to select the white bg in the spray thingie and delete it...
you may need to duplicate that layer s few times to bet back the colour depth... then just flatten 'em...
and drag it to your new file...
maybe...
- corin0
hmmm, couple of ways to takle this - depending on what spray thingy means... prob. bets to start off with SELECT - COLOR RANGE, and then try and get rid of all the white...
- corin0
great minds:)
you might also try making a copy of the mutliplied layer inverting the image, turning up its levels so that the white becomes black and then the previously yellow is bumped up to white, set that one to screen and put it under the mulitplied one to compensate
- corin0
hehe we should compete to come up with the most unnecessarily complex solution possible :)
- rhymez0
yea, color range white matte does the job, but it loses quite much of the spray
the spray pic is pretty much like this one
- J0
Is that what you mean?
- rhymez0
YES!
how did you do that?
- unknown0
go into channels and make a copy of the darkest one, bump it up with levels/curves, select it then go into layers and click quick mask...easy.
- J0
Hahaha!
What's it worth....?
(Scroll down...)
Oh ok....
That one was easy, since the spray was black and the background was white.
All you do is go to your channels palette, hold down control (on a pc, dunno on mac) and click on any channel (they're all the same since its B+W) this will make a selection based on the blacks and whites. Invert the selection, go back to your layers palette, create a new layer, create your color (yellow right?) put it as the bg colour (pressing x toggles the bg and forground colors in your palette) then hit control backspace ( <-- ) to fill the selection with the background color (yellow)
You now have a yellow spay in a new layer, on top of your original spray image. Drag it to any other open psd and notice how it has no matting, since we didnt try cutting it off a background, we made it ourselves.
If you original spray image isnt black on white, desaturate it completely, then adjust the levels until it IS black on white.
Done.
I thankyou.
J.
- rhymez0
rasko: and then what? the quick mask channel is empty.....
sorry but i havent worked with channels that much..
- J0
I know mines 'over explained', but i'm saying the same as Rasko essentially, but with precise instruction.
- rhymez0
rasko: oh, never mind, i did it J's way... thanks though
J: yeah, i got it. thanks you're the man.
- J0
;)