sal4gal

I am attaching a file that I am working on. I hope that I attached it right! namvet, I followed your instructions from the resolution lesson to get it down to 72, COOL! [righton] I printed out your lesson and I have filed it for frequent referral!

Anyway, there is a .png of a fish that I want to move down into the dialogue box. But the box and the fish are both dark. What can I do to make the fish stand out? Maybe a slight white glow? I don't know how to do that.

Any suggestions have to be easy, LOL!

Sallie

namvet

sal4gal ... there are many ways to tackle this (pun not intended ) ... is the fish a seperate image? (but it doesn't really matter - it can be fixed) ...and do you want to keep the 'drop shadow' that is around your fish? ...
the short explanation is ... to remove drop shadow use eraser tool, or add layer mask and then brush around the edges .... to add a 'glow' around the fish either copy fish layer then increase its size add gaussian blur (make sure this layer is under original fish layer) or use the layer styles to put your own drop shadow in ... now that's the short explanation which may confuse if it does let us know and will give more detailed info

sal4gal

Thanks namvet . . . again!!! The fish is separate, thanks for looking at it.

I think that I understand. I'll be playing with it tonight after work; erasing the shadow and working with the glow.

Hopefully I will have a "glowing" report!

Sallie

namvet

sal4gal .. just a few 'hints' in image below ... I suggest that you make a duplicate of the fish before you start ... as a back up ... good luck [righton]

sal4gal

Good grief, namvet you are amazing! I am at work pretending that I am working very hard on a project, hehe! I just had to sneak a peek and here is another tutorial. I can't wait to play tonight.

Another question! The photo is a jpeg. Should I have converted it to a Tiff before using it? I know that jpeg's are lossy and I am continually saving my work as I go along. Does photoshop somehow solve that problem once it is imported to the program?

Sallie

namvet

sal4gal[bustagut] [bustagut] .. I just remember my first post here at PSG in March last year .. it was "how do I make gold" ... and I was helped alot ... then I got busy and eventually returned to PSG in September, read heaps of posts, did tutorials, asked questions, just as you are ... I just try to remember to keep it simple and easy
... now about "lossy" and jpg vs tiff .. that's outside of my knowledge area ... so we will both have to wait for someone else to 'teach' us about that
... keep posting your questions/results ... the 'teachers' learn everytime they 'teach' ... oh, and btw, when you have completed your image and before you 'flatten' your layers make a duplicate of the file, just in case someone here suggests a change or two ... it's handy sometimes to be able to go back to the layers file (the psd file) [righton]

sal4gal

Thanks namvet! :} BTW, how is the lamb's mother doing?

Ok, your last post/suggestion brought up another question. You mentioned flattening. Should I have flattened before making the jpeg to post here? This is all so confusing | that I hardly even know the questions to ask ;\ !

Sallie

sal4gal

Yikes, I can't even use the bold properly in messages [bustagut]

namvet

sal4gal wrote: .. re: posting on this board - as a general rule you need to use jpg to post here (gif for animated) and the file size can't exceed 150kb (width shouldn't be more than 600 pixels) ... now a tif or psd image (layered images) can't posted here for viewing, file would be too large ... that's why I suggested you make a duplicate of your psd file, keep one, flatten the other for posting ... lamb and mum are both ok thanks

Detailed explanation Ian! [righton]