[I need help with my buddys picture.]

I'm sorry for your loss. I'm not much at photo manipulation but there are some really great tutorials on this forum that should enable you to achieve the desired effect you need for your memorial shirts. Here is a link to a tut by Tabou on removing tricky backgrounds in photos. viewtopic.php?f=36&t=29129 You should be able to find most anything in the tutorial section to make a great image.

Thanks I will give it a try.

[I need help with my buddys picture.]

You are aware that Matt will have cut-off hands on his shirt if we do like you said?

its fine I just need the background gone

[I need help with my buddys picture.]

Last year my buddy pasted away in a bike accident and on March 7 we are having his one year memorial and I would like to design a picture for the front and back of some shirts so I can give away to friends and family. I just dont have the skill to do all this so if anyone could help I would really appreciate it and also will the family and friends. So on the front I would like his picture and to take the background out and to say "When someone you love becomes a memory,the memory becomes a treasure."first part of words on top and second on bottom. And on the back I would just like it to say R.I.P. MBS 7.7.87-3.5.09 Forever in our hearts." and any design added to it is also welcome I want it to look nice Thanks.

[Is there a faster and easier way to highlight?]

Try Alpha Masking. Excellent tutorials on alpha masking, by Crazy Man Dan, can be found here and . You will have to download a plugin for this, but if I understand correctly installing plugins is no longer a problem for you. The way I would do it would be to create a mask of whatever object you want to keep colored, save the mask, go back to your original picture, duplicate the layer, run the Black and White adjustment on the top layer, then run your alpha mask on the top layer. It should come out looking the way you want it.

Yea I can install plugins now I will give that a try thanks men.

[Is there a faster and easier way to highlight?]

You could try cutting out the image, putting it on a new layer, and then changing the backround layer to black and white.

I tried that say I want to lust leave my car in color and the background and everything black and white its hard to cutout all them edges perfect.

[Is there a faster and easier way to highlight?]

Have you taken a look at this thread yet?

Yea I did I know how to download them and have installed the plugin on paint.net but I cant really just highlight one object with Extractcolor if there is something else colored the same it is going to stay the same.I was looking to see if there was a plugin so I could just highlight or select one specific thing or object in a picture because the magic wand works but takes forever and it is not perfect sometimes it gets part of the other object I dont want.

[Is there a faster and easier way to highlight?]

Try using the Extract Color plugin. :wink:

I cant never get the plugins on my paint.net I download them then what do I do I am using google chrome.

[Is there a faster and easier way to highlight?]

I have a question I'm not that good at editing but I always mess around with my pictures and make them into black and white and leave another object in color.Usually I just use the magic wand and highlight what I want to keep in color but it takes so long and usually it is not perfect because it usually highlights part of the other picture that I dont want.I wanted to know is there a better way of highlighting just one object in the picture faster and easier?Thanks