Any Photoshop Experts on RF?

[Gharib]

hi guys, i'm currently working on something and i'm just not very good when it comes to photoshop or any other adobe programs.

does anyone know how to properly use photoshop?

 

[atanu]

hi guys, i'm currently working on something and i'm just not very good when it comes to photoshop or any other adobe programs.

does anyone know how to properly use photoshop?

I use it for some basic editing of scientific figures etc., but not for photos. I cannot judge the word 'properly' in your post, until you spell out what exactly needs to be done.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

 

[Gharib]

i have an image that i want to edit, i want to either cut out what i need or change the image size/dimensions to what i want without making the image look weird as it ussualy does when you stretch only 1 direction (left and right being one direction up and down the other direction).

the problem with cutting out what i want is that the colour sort of melts into another colour so to my ability that is imposible.

or the third option is to make the whole image smaller and then to somehow copy that same colour and fill the rest of the background so it all looks the same.

i hope i'm making sense.

this is the image that i am talking about;

AL QURAN by ~juba-paldf on deviantART

i want the book (qur'an) and the light that comes out of it, the orange background doesn't really matter if the mentioned part can just be cut out.

 

[Skwim]

i have an image that i want to edit, i want to either cut out what i need or change the image size/dimensions to what i want without making the image look weird as it ussualy does when you stretch only 1 direction (left and right being one direction up and down the other direction).

the problem with cutting out what i want is that the colour sort of melts into another colour so to my ability that is imposible.

or the third option is to make the whole image smaller and then to somehow copy that same colour and fill the rest of the background so it all looks the same.

i hope i'm making sense.

this is the image that i am talking about;

AL QURAN by ~juba-paldf on deviantART

i want the book (qur'an) and the light that comes out of it, the orange background doesn't really matter if the mentioned part can just be cut out.

Is the "mentioned" part the small script in the lower left hand corner, the large script in the center, or both?

 

[Skwim]

Kind of like this?

 

[Songbird]

Mental note to stay on Skwim's good side if I ever need photoshop help.

 

[linwood]

Are you trying to get the image to fit within one of Deviantart's required aspect ratio`s for printing?

If so you can simply create a complimentary border around your image to fit the ratio.

 

[Gharib]

wow skwim, how did you do that?

i wasted a whole day trying to do it, lol.

thank you so much.

 

[Gharib]

Are you trying to get the image to fit within one of Deviantart's required aspect ratio`s for printing?

If so you can simply create a complimentary border around your image to fit the ratio.

no i'm making a website of my own and i wnat to make that image fit into the dimensions i want it to, but it became too small (1/3) when i made the Qur'an part small enough to fit in. i'm working on a banner (i think thats what it's called)

 

[Gharib]

a little problem i'm having, the image doesn't properly cut out when i use the magical wand tool either on the background or the image itself? i want to try a few different colours as my background black being one of them?

 

[Skwim]

wow skwim, how did you do that?

I did it on the little paint program that came with Windows XP. Took about 10-15 minutes. If you truly want to know how I can give you a step-by-step. Not all that difficult.

 

[Gharib]

I did it on the little paint program that came with Windows XP. Took about 10-15 minutes. If you truly want to know how I can give you a step-by-step. Not all that difficult.

yes please if you don't mind.

 

[Skwim]

yes please if you don't mind.

Here you go. Sorry that it isn't larger.

 

[Gharib]

thanks heaps skwim, i will frubal you once i am able to.