PLEASE for WEDDING !!Need help with cutting a specific shape

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Mar 22, 2005
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I am trying to make a slideshow for my friends upcoming wedding, and want to make some funny pics. I have s picture of a gladiator wearing a helmet, and then a pic of the exact same head size of my friend. what I want to do is cut his head in the shape of the gladiators head without the helmet. I want the part that comes over the head (the point) to fit perfectly in his head. Is there a way to do something like click on points of both pictures and then you would have the pic you want to edit, cut the shape that youve traced on the pic you are pasting to? I hope this all makes sense even I dont fully understand it the way Ive written it 🙂

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Andy Ronmalon
Mar 22, 2005
You need to read up on layers and the brush selection tool. The full explanation is too long to list, but you will figure it out after a couple tutorials.

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I am trying to make a slideshow for my friends upcoming wedding, and want to make some funny pics. I have s picture of a gladiator wearing a helmet, and then a pic of the exact same head size of my friend. what I want to do is cut his head in the shape of the gladiators head without the helmet. I want the part that comes over the head (the point) to fit perfectly in his head. Is there a way to do something like click on points of both pictures and then you would have the pic you want to edit, cut the shape that youve traced on the pic you are pasting to? I hope this all makes sense even I dont fully understand it the way Ive written it 🙂

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Derek Fountain
Mar 22, 2005
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I am trying to make a slideshow for my friends upcoming wedding, and want to make some funny pics.

This comes up so often Adobe should create a "Merge mate’s head" feature in the next version. It amazes me that anyone would buy an expensive package like Photoshop just to do this.

Short answer – it’s not going to happen. You’ll need to put in many hours of learning and experimentation to achieve anything remotely convincing. If you really want it done, offer to pay someone to do it for you – it’ll be a lot quicker.


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Andy Ronmalon
Mar 23, 2005
"Derek Fountain" wrote in message
wrote:

I am trying to make a slideshow for my friends upcoming wedding, and want to make some funny pics.

This comes up so often Adobe should create a "Merge mate’s head" feature in
the next version. It amazes me that anyone would buy an expensive package like Photoshop just to do this.

Short answer – it’s not going to happen. You’ll need to put in many hours of
learning and experimentation to achieve anything remotely convincing. If you really want it done, offer to pay someone to do it for you – it’ll be a
lot quicker.
I disagree. I think it can be done adequately with a few basic tutorials.
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Hecate
Mar 23, 2005
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:43:11 -0500, "Andy Ronmalon" wrote:

Short answer – it’s not going to happen. You’ll need to put in many hours of
learning and experimentation to achieve anything remotely convincing. If you really want it done, offer to pay someone to do it for you – it’ll be a
lot quicker.
I disagree. I think it can be done adequately with a few basic tutorials.
That depends on your definition of adequate…



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Brian
Mar 24, 2005
Hecate wrote:

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:43:11 -0500, "Andy Ronmalon" wrote:

Short answer – it’s not going to happen. You’ll need to put in many hours of
learning and experimentation to achieve anything remotely convincing. If you really want it done, offer to pay someone to do it for you – it’ll be a
lot quicker.

I disagree. I think it can be done adequately with a few basic tutorials.

That depends on your definition of adequate…



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A lot of so-called experienced people cannot even do it "convincingly". Is adequate the same as convincing?

Brian 🙂
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Andy Ronmalon
Mar 24, 2005
"Brian" wrote in message
Hecate wrote:

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:43:11 -0500, "Andy Ronmalon" wrote:

Short answer – it’s not going to happen. You’ll need to put in many hours of
learning and experimentation to achieve anything remotely convincing. If you really want it done, offer to pay someone to do it for you – it’ll be a
lot quicker.

I disagree. I think it can be done adequately with a few basic tutorials.

That depends on your definition of adequate…



Hecate – The Real One
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A lot of so-called experienced people cannot even do it "convincingly". Is adequate the same as convincing?

Brian 🙂

Nope. But then again I don’t think the OP was trying to fool a forensic specialist. Making in convincing requires skills that go beyond knowing the software.
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Hecate
Mar 24, 2005
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:47:13 +1100, Brian
wrote:

I disagree. I think it can be done adequately with a few basic tutorials.

That depends on your definition of adequate…

A lot of so-called experienced people cannot even do it "convincingly". Is adequate the same as convincing?

Brian 🙂

Yep[, I’d call convincing adequate. And by convincing I mean even if you look at it for 20 mins you can’t spot the join 🙂



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Brian
Mar 25, 2005
Hecate wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:47:13 +1100, Brian
wrote:

I disagree. I think it can be done adequately with a few basic tutorials.

That depends on your definition of adequate…

A lot of so-called experienced people cannot even do it "convincingly". Is adequate the same as convincing?

Brian 🙂

Yep[, I’d call convincing adequate. And by convincing I mean even if you look at it for 20 mins you can’t spot the join 🙂



Hecate – The Real One

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Gee Hecate, you are as fussy as I am then! I hate it when you see newspaper ads and magazine ads where the work that has been done is so obvious! Such as changed backgrounds where the person "looks" cut out.

Brian.
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Andy Ronmalon
Mar 25, 2005
"Brian" wrote in message
Hecate wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:47:13 +1100, Brian
wrote:

I disagree. I think it can be done adequately with a few basic tutorials.

That depends on your definition of adequate…

A lot of so-called experienced people cannot even do it "convincingly". Is adequate the same as convincing?

Brian 🙂

Yep[, I’d call convincing adequate. And by convincing I mean even if you look at it for 20 mins you can’t spot the join 🙂



Hecate – The Real One
Fashion: Buying things you don’t need, with money
you don’t have, to impress people you don’t like…

Gee Hecate, you are as fussy as I am then! I hate it when you see newspaper ads and magazine ads where the work that has been done is so obvious! Such as changed backgrounds where the person "looks" cut out.
Brian.

I made a fake of jennifer aniston when i was 12 using only Windows paintbrush and it looked damn good. I inserted the nipples pixel by pixel, literally, using the grayscale palette. i then disseminated it on the internet
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Brian
Mar 25, 2005
Andy Ronmalon wrote:
"Brian" wrote in message

Hecate wrote:

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:47:13 +1100, Brian
wrote:

I disagree. I think it can be done adequately with a few basic tutorials.

That depends on your definition of adequate…

A lot of so-called experienced people cannot even do it "convincingly". Is adequate the same as convincing?

Brian 🙂

Yep[, I’d call convincing adequate. And by convincing I mean even if you look at it for 20 mins you can’t spot the join 🙂



Hecate – The Real One
Fashion: Buying things you don’t need, with money
you don’t have, to impress people you don’t like…

Gee Hecate, you are as fussy as I am then! I hate it when you see newspaper ads and magazine ads where the work that has been done is so obvious! Such as changed backgrounds where the person "looks" cut out.
Brian.

I made a fake of jennifer aniston when i was 12 using only Windows paintbrush and it looked damn good. I inserted the nipples pixel by pixel, literally, using the grayscale palette. i then disseminated it on the internet
You little deviot, Andy!! You were obviously PS material in the making.

Brian 🙂
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Scruff
Mar 25, 2005
"Andy Ronmalon" wrote in message
"Brian" wrote in message
Hecate wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:47:13 +1100, Brian
wrote:

I disagree. I think it can be done adequately with a few basic tutorials.

That depends on your definition of adequate…

A lot of so-called experienced people cannot even do it "convincingly". Is adequate the same as convincing?

Brian 🙂

Yep[, I’d call convincing adequate. And by convincing I mean even if you look at it for 20 mins you can’t spot the join 🙂



Hecate – The Real One
Fashion: Buying things you don’t need, with money
you don’t have, to impress people you don’t like…

Gee Hecate, you are as fussy as I am then! I hate it when you see newspaper ads and magazine ads where the work that has been done is so obvious! Such as changed backgrounds where the person "looks" cut out.
Brian.

I made a fake of jennifer aniston when i was 12 using only Windows paintbrush and it looked damn good. I inserted the nipples pixel by pixel, literally, using the grayscale palette. i then disseminated it on the internet
I can’t imagine how you celebrated the completion of that project!!
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Hecate
Mar 26, 2005
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:37:29 +1100, Brian
wrote:

Yep[, I’d call convincing adequate. And by convincing I mean even if you look at it for 20 mins you can’t spot the join 🙂

Gee Hecate, you are as fussy as I am then! I hate it when you see newspaper ads and magazine ads where the work that has been done is so obvious! Such as changed backgrounds where the person "looks" cut out.
Absolutely. The only difference is when the image maker has deliberately made it look like that. A lot of the advertising work by Steve Caplin (in the UK) is like that. You can see lots of examples in his (very good) book "How to Cheat in Photoshop".



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