Need help cutting a heart out odf a picture plz

That’s a good question…wanted to know this myself. Found this tutorial on the web:
http://www.pegaweb.com/_forum3/00000151.htm good luck,
Paul

"CrazyCanuck" <@> wrote in message

Could someone please tell me how to or where to go to show me how to cut a heart shape out of a photo with ps7

TIA

"Paul Burdett" wrote in message

That’s a good question…wanted to know this myself. Found this tutorial

on

the web:
http://www.pegaweb.com/_forum3/00000151.htm good luck,
Paul

P.S. Just tried this, but the shape is a solid colour….not sure if this is what you were aiming for? I’d like to have the image containes in a heart shape..like a frame I guess.

"CrazyCanuck" <@> wrote in message

Could someone please tell me how to or where to go to show me how to cut a heart shape out of a photo with ps7

TIA

Paul Burdett wrote:

"Paul Burdett" wrote in message

That’s a good question…wanted to know this myself. Found this tutorial

on

the web:
http://www.pegaweb.com/_forum3/00000151.htm good luck,
Paul

P.S. Just tried this, but the shape is a solid colour….not sure if this is what you were aiming for? I’d like to have the image containes in a heart shape..like a frame I guess.

"CrazyCanuck" <@> wrote in message

Could someone please tell me how to or where to go to show me how to cut a heart shape out of a photo with ps7

TIA

Use the solid color as a mask. Check the manual.

—
Branko Vukelic ()

as always…there really is not right or wrong way to do this…there are a couple of appoaches.

If you are familiar with the pen tool….you can draw your heart shape with that…then right click on your shape…choose make selection. then cntr/shift/"I" (or select inverse selectoin). and delete (you might want to choose some featureing first to give s soft edge.

OR you could create your heart in Illustrator and copy and paste that in as a shape…then follow the same steps.

Or you could create your heart in corel draw…export it to illustrator and then bring it in to PS.

OR…if you dont like drawing your heart…..you can always find some clip art heart (vector)…bring that into illustrator and then into photoshop….and follow the same steps.

OR…if you dont have illustrator then you can copy your heart from whatever source….and then use the pen tool to trace it…or use whatever selection tool you would like to select the heart shape….save that selection…delete the heart layer…and put your selection onto the layer with your photo…etc..

hope that helps rather than confuse you

jj

"CrazyCanuck" <@> wrote in message

Could someone please tell me how to or where to go to show me how to cut a heart shape out of a photo with ps7

TIA

CrazyCanuck wrote:

Could someone please tell me how to or where to go to show me how to cut a heart shape out of a photo with ps7

TIA

Use the custom shape tool. Choose the heart shape, draw it to size. Go to the path palett, right click your shape and choose "make selection…", set the option to your liking, click OK. Delete the custom shape (you don’t need it anymore at this point), make sure the layer you want to cut from is active and press shift+ctrl+j. Done.

I found that one earlier too but I get a filled in heart that just covers the picture.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:45:45 +1000, "Paul Burdett" wrote:

That’s a good question…wanted to know this myself. Found this tutorial on the web:
http://www.pegaweb.com/_forum3/00000151.htm good luck,
Paul

"CrazyCanuck" <@> wrote in message

Could someone please tell me how to or where to go to show me how to cut a heart shape out of a photo with ps7

TIA

Thanks to all for the tutorials
Paul

"Deco_time" wrote in message

CrazyCanuck wrote:

Could someone please tell me how to or where to go to show me how to cut a heart shape out of a photo with ps7

TIA

Use the custom shape tool. Choose the heart shape, draw it to size. Go to the path palett, right click your shape and choose "make selection…",

set

the option to your liking, click OK. Delete the custom shape (you don’t

need

it anymore at this point), make sure the layer you want to cut from is active and press shift??. Done.

Hi…I was sent this tutorial by "lindaminor" via email. I tried itbut couldn’t get the 3 layers she talked about. I’ve emailed her regarding this…maybe you’ll have better luck!
Cheers,
Paul

hello, crazy and paul-

i found your graphics-chat posting doing a search for something

else.

since i’m not set up for usenet, actually not sure how to do it, i

thought

i’d email instructions for doing the heart thing. here goes:
1. with your original photo open in photoshop, duplicate the

background

(pull down to the new layer icon). turn off the original

background

(eyeball) so you can see what’s happening next.
2. using the shape tool (midway down on the right side of the

toolbox),

and in the custom shapes palette (accessed from the options bar),

choose a

heart shape. pull out in your image to make it as big as you want.

use the

move tool to place where you want if it isn’t.
3. in the layers palette, pull the heart shaped layer under the

background

copy, which will make the heart disappear temporarily (because the background copy is on top of it). so at this point you have in the

layers

palette, from top down: background copy, shape layer, real

background.

4. now clip the background copy to the shape layer by doing this:

with

your alt key down (or option key on a mac), put your mouse on the

dividing

line in the layers palette between the background copy layer and

the shape

layer. the mouse icon will change from an arrow to a double

circle. when

you see that double circle, click. this clips the layers together,

with

the shape layer essentially providing a heart shaped mask on the background copy above. the gray and white squares are

transparency,

meaning if you printed the image at this point, the empty area

around the

heart would be the color of the paper.
5. if the heart still isn’t in the proper location, you can still

move it

by going to the move tool, making sure the heart layer is active.
if you want to make some kind of border around the heart, click

back on

the heart layer to activate, and then control-click (command-click

on mac)

to make a selection in the shape of the heart. then give yourself

a new

layer on top of everything and make a stroke (edit menu) border,

or

whatever fanciness you want. if you want to fill the non-heart

area with a

pattern, inverse the selection, and then fill with whatever. or

you can

fill an entire layer with a pattern, or maybe the entire image

blurred

out, or texturized with canvas and faded (opacity), then put it

under the

heart group, and you’ll have a coordinating but different

background for

the heart.

"CrazyCanuck" <@> wrote in message

Could someone please tell me how to or where to go to show me how to cut a heart shape out of a photo with ps7

TIA

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:25:37 -0500, "Deco_time" wrote:

CrazyCanuck wrote:

Could someone please tell me how to or where to go to show me how to cut a heart shape out of a photo with ps7

TIA

Use the custom shape tool. Choose the heart shape, draw it to size. Go to the path palett, right click your shape and choose "make selection…", set the option to your liking, click OK. Delete the custom shape (you don’t need it anymore at this point), make sure the layer you want to cut from is active and press shift+ctrl+j. Done.

This was created using the custom shape tool
http://www.pbase.com/image/25027598

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Just use the magic wand tool.&nbsp; Set your tolerance to about 32 to start and contiguous on the option bar.&nbsp; You may also want to go to quick mask mode after to see what you need to clean up.&nbsp; Press "q" and it’ll take you there.&nbsp; You can then fix up the red mask as you need to.&nbsp; Press q again when done and it’ll turn into your selection again.&nbsp; Hit control &amp; x key and you’ve cut it out.&nbsp; Then open up a new document, call it heart, and hit control &amp; v key and in it goes.&nbsp; <br> Charlie Bones<br>
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