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Hi...I'm new to this and to PS so I'll appreciate any help. I need to change the background of a picture, without distorting the image. How do I keep the image as a whole picture with only the background amended to a colour? Am I making any sense?

I'm sure it's somthing quite simple but I can't seem to make it happen.

Please help!!!! :-)

Thanks
Chops!~

Ill be nice before some of the others get to you. Probably just a matter of patiently selecting everything you wish to change and then heading into adjustments or coloring on another layer then using blending modes. . . but be prepared for more answers of RTFM, do some tutorials, get the basics down and learn how to apply those. Then try it then we'll see what we can do.

Go here -> http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/index.php

And don't say i didn't warn ya. . .

chops: I'm new to this and to PS so I'll appreciate any help.

SPyX: Ill be nice before some of the others get to you.

Drac: Oh, how nobel of you.

chops: I'm sure it's somthing quite simple but I can't seem to make it happen...

SPyX: we'll see what we can do.

Drac: Speak for yourself.

chops: I need to change the background of a picture...

Drac: Something tells me this is just gonna get worse...

chops: ...without distorting the image

SPyX: using blending modes...

chops: How do I keep the image as a whole picture with only the background amended to a colour?

Drac: Huh?

chops: Am I making any sense?

Drac: RTFM

SPyX: be prepared for more answers of RTFM, And don't say i didn't warn ya. . .

Drac: Well said SPyX.

- Can ya tell I'm just a tad bored.




[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 11-03-2002).]

My very best friend. What you need to do, is take your magic wand tool, select evreything on the background. Then right click--select inverse--copy--new document--ctrl-V--to your new backround.

Oh dear Dracusis is talking to himself again - nurse!!!

chops: Welcome. To be more specific (although SpyX was along the right lines) go here:
http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/682/

and as you are new here you might want to go here:
http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/394/

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Drac: As in putting a solid color over the background (in another layer) then changing that layer's blending mode to color. You would change the hue of the entire background. . . am I wrong?

Take this:



and turned it into this:



-Adam

Edit: Oh and it is spelled NOBLE, unless you MEAN nobel as in Nobel Prize but. . .

[This message has been edited by SPyX (edited 11-03-2002).]

The magic wand isn't good for that use... The magic wand isn't good for much really - I never use it.

Levels + Alpha channels are your friends here, methinks. You may also want to try using the Extract function.

A word of advice to the new photoshop user:

Do not learn to "live by" the magic wand tool. Learn to "live by" the pen tool and layer masks.

What , I think some of the others are trying to say is that there are several ways to go about this.
In the manual ( or help files) all are discussed. So, depending on the image you`re working with, solutions may differ, but here is one.

start with an image.


Select the part you wih to keep wth the tool of your choice. My favorite is the pen tool, however the magic wand in some cases will work (but generally leaves you with a jaggy selection), and the lasso works ( but involves lots of clicks) , and the Extract tool will work, in some cases too. Here is what the pen tool selection looks like.



With the pen tool still active, Right click, select Make selection, feather 0 pixels.(if one of the other tools are used , no need to convert to selection) Type CTRL+C to copy , CTRL+V to paste into your new background.




If you only wish to replace the background with a new color, once you have the image selected, type CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+I and fill.

And welcome to the Asylum.

okay, d!$ !$ bugg!n m3.

Does PS have the ability to "key" out one color such as a green screen?

I do it all dah time in Premiere and it works great, but I can't figure out how to do it in PS.

                                     

little slow on the draw here...
what do you mean by "key" out... izz?

errrr.... ehh.....

A picture is takin of a Person infront of a green screen, and all the green is made transparent.
Even the green bits behind hair and fuzzy stuff is made almost perfectly transparent, leaving the hair and fuzz and blah intact.

Select>>Color range. Eyedropper the color ( Shift+Click to add colors) Play with fuzziness.

*that* would be a good time for the magic wand izz. grab magic wand, click in the green. it will only grab the green that is all directly connected. then right-click, choose "select similar" and it will select all of that color anywhere in the image.

then you can delete. not always perfect, but good for many cases and awfully quick.

DL: There's a checkbox at the top marked "Contiguous" or something like that. If you uncheck that, then clicking green anywhere will select green everywhere, even if it's not connected. So you don't have to do the select-similar trick.

Green-screening is great...as long as you take care to make sure your subjects are not wearing or sporting any green tones that are close to the shade.

When that's the case, I prefer to use SELECT>>>COLOR RANGE

You can use the eyedropper to grab the tone you want, and then a 200 step slider to adjust the sensitivity of what "similar" shades you'll select as well. Then doing a quick mask, and a quick inversion of that, and voila.

It's remarkably good with whispies too when you nail the sensitivity of shades down. The only part I hate...tiny tiny preview window is just a damned tease at times.

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Edit:
Or just listen to Bob while I take no notice of his previous post.

Whoops.

Damn snot-nosed kids all quick on the draw 'n' shit nowadays.





[This message has been edited by DarkGarden (edited 11-04-2002).]

Arrrr.... Thanks!

the funny part is that I pretty much explained to a client how to do it with out even knowing myself. yeah baby.

                                     

an oldie but goodie

"Photoshop Channel Chops" (Biedny, Monroy, Moody)

got the spare mulla, its a great buy ymmv


;;edit;; heh, just noticed the orignal posters name! lol too funny chops for chops! *more RR*

[This message has been edited by vogonpoet (edited 11-04-2002).]

go to my links page (or the asylums links page) where I have a bunch of photoshop links to tutorials. Read `em and enjoy.