Popping out of a picture.

[jb1412]

hi im new to this software and am finding it a little confusing hopefully you can help? firstly when creating a shape on the new layer do i just draw a shape from the tools located on the left hand side and if so i have tried this but it doesnt appear as a black box. do i fill this colour in with the paint tool? also im a little confused with the term invert? could you explain what you mean please also how do you select things for deletion

[Martel]

hi im new to this software and am finding it a little confusing hopefully you can help? firstly when creating a shape on the new layer do i just draw a shape from the tools located on the left hand side and if so i have tried this but it doesnt appear as a black box. do i fill this colour in with the paint tool? also im a little confused with the term invert? could you explain what you mean please also how do you select things for deletion

1. Yes you can draw a shape on a new layer using tools like paint brush line. To get a black box change your color on the pallet to black then select the area you want to be black with the rectangular select tool, then hit backspace and it will be black, (be sure to be on the correct layer) or you can use the paint bucket to fill the box with color.

2. Invert means to change from the selected area to all other area. If you have selected areas with the wand then hit ctrl I it inverts it to the unselected area. Other words it selects the unselected area when u hit ctrl I

[Xaeron]

Great Tutorial.

Here is my outcome.

[ron1]

Hi all new here and like this site, having a few problems with this tutorial.

In step 3 I tried to create the black box using the Rectangle tool and doing a black fill with Paint Bucket. Is this right?

How do I Select the black box and then select the second picture layer?

When I Invert the selection it does nothing like is shown in the tutorial.

Thanks for any help

Ron

[Martel]

yes the black box and paint bucket is good (the tut uses a slanted box to add depth) it will work square too

make sure you are on the layer with the black box.

grab the magic wand

click the black box it will become grabbed or highlighted

next

switch to the picture layer below

then invert ctrl+i

then hit del

[ron1]

yes the black box and paint bucket is good (the tut uses a slanted box to add depth) it will work square too

make sure you are on the layer with the black box.

grab the magic wand

click the black box it will become grabbed or highlighted

next

switch to the picture layer below

then invert ctrl+i

then hit del

Thanks for replying, I tried it just like you said, even tilted the black box, but the black box will not co-operate, I am wore out trying to figure it out, maybe tomorrow. I noticed when I tried to drag the photo off the page a little I could see the the background picture, but the one I dragged a little to the right turned blue but no picture was on it, weird, oh well thanks anyway.

[Martel]

Be sure that you are on the correct layer.

The layer you are working on will be highlighted blue on the layers selector window.

Also be sure that your layers are in the order that you want.

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[ron1]

Thanks for the help, this is a test one that I did, I found out what I was doing wrong and am in the process of doing a YouTube on it.

Again thanks for the help

[Martel]

What is a YouTube on it?

Instead of using the eraser to separate the background use the magic wand (set it down to about somewhere between 12 and 30)

The background can be removed that way or...

I really like the remove tricky background tutorial

[ron1]

Here is the YouTube link for a tutorial I did, it is a little blurry, I might have to upload a better quality video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4GkEIkufp4

Edited January 29, 2011 by ron1

[Martel]

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A white frame around the black box picture area would help ...

[ron1]

Thanks Martel, that does look better. Did the video make any sense or is it something that only I can understand?

Finally figured to right click and drag for a white frame, then it came to me to use the eraser to take out the white around the neck, thanks for your help.

[Martel]

Yes it makes sense..pretty nifty

[ron1]

Had to update my youtube link .New link

Edited January 30, 2011 by ron1

[fred in bed]

This is awesome, I could possibly use this in the future... a lot of times.

[Bob11]

This tutorial was very hard for me to follow. I spent more than a couple of hours a few weeks ago attempting to follow the tutorial but was lost after the first couple of steps and finally gave up in frustration. But today I began reading the replying posts. The questions and answers were very helpful. I even viewed the linked Youtube video a few times. And of course the posted results were very motivational. Anyway, here's my first pop-out picture. I am so thrilled I was able to do it. I'm going to try it again soon.

[Martel]

@Bob11

I think it looks fantastic!

[IDprofile]

Thanks spongey437 for the turorial, saved me a lot of time.

This is my first attempt at it http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/5894/generalleetheater.png

Edited May 8, 2011 by IDprofile

[Iwonder_who]

Had done some of these before and decided to revisit and do some more. Never fails to impress to me... but then it doesnt always take much lol

[Iwonder_who]

Or this one! uh oh I am hooked again

[JodyI]

This is an excellent tutorial. Very valuable. Here is what I did using this technique, combined with some others.

-Jody

[Half Man Half Biscuit]

Very nice and easy understandable tutorial SPONGEY437,really nice;)

Here is my first attempt

[venicet]

One of my cats. I think this is the first pic I tried a couple weeks ago. I'm still really new so you can see the mistakes.

[minners71]

Great tut thanks here is my first attempt. Combined it with yellowmans tut for 3D paper.

Edited December 29, 2011 by minners71

[AirbusA340]

I think I'm in love with this Tut! Here's my go: