retired_Th4

I'm new to all this myself but I've put together a short guide for anyone who may be interested.
Guide

dejasade

lovely stuff. i'll give it a whirl :thup:

dejasade

darn it. i create one and put it in the folder with my downloaded liverpool pics.

edited the config file so insua was there and refreshed the game screen and he still doesn't show

dejasade

i've got him showing but it shows as a normal rectangle picture with the background in white. not a proper cut out.

your instructions just say to use the eraser to rub the background out?
i'm using paint.NET. would it be the same situation?

retired_Th4

Did you save your image as a PNG file?

retired_jordangs4

With Paint.Net (using the same photo as in the very handy guide :thup: ) :

Open the photo and select the 'Magic Wand' from the toolbar. The tolerance box is set to 50% by default, change it to 30% and click on the grass in the photo. If some of the players face is selected as well change the tolerance down to about 25% and click again - You are aiming for the majority of the background to be selected. You can set the tolerance to a low level and select small sections at a time.

Once you've selected some (or all) of the background select Edit>Erase Selection or press the delete key. The chequered background represents transparency. Repeat as necessary.

Resize the image to 180x180 and save as PNG.

retired_Th4

Thanks for that very concise explanation Dave - just what I was going to say

dejasade

THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! my first cut out picture and its looking good

(it was for emiliano insua)

dejasade

time for a bit of a rset i think. this is good fun but time consuming.
i've done:

paul anderson#
barnett
hobbs
bouzanis
amoo
insua
james smith
lee peltier
mihaylov
nemeth
sakho
spearing
bruna

all in the last hour

retired_abjanicki

I don't know why but every time, I try to open this file it causes a problem and Word has to close.

Am I the only one like this?

Or maybe, would it be possible to just copy and paste the writing into the thread?

Just in case it makes any difference, I have Photoshop CS3