Richmantoo Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 For instance: I want to put this picture. On the screen of this laptop. What's the best way to go about doing this? Quote Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagedavis Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 I can think of a couple of ways... The easiest by far is to select the blue portion of the computer with the magic wand tool at about 54 tolerance, and select the blue inside the computer... Then, hit "delete". That should get rid of most of the screen. Add the photo of the cardinal on a layer below it, and then resize the cardinal image so that it fits the view that you want. That's it. Sage Quote When in doubt, Try it out. I made this sig file using http://www.anim8or.com and making all of the textures with http://www.getpaint.net I love freeware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Man Dan Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Open both images in PDN. Resize the cardinal so it fits within the dimensions of the laptop image (in this case, resize the height to 232px so none of the image is cut off when you paste. Copy the cardinal and paste it into a new layer in the computer image. Use either Rotate / Zoom or the Reshape / Matte plugin to skew the image of the cardinal. Duplicate the cardinal layer and set the duplicates blending mode to Screen. Adjust the layer opacity until the brightness looks right. I added a glare by drawing a line using the Line / Curve tool, painting in the top with the Paintbrush, Magic Wand-ing around the cardinal layer, deleting the surrounding white from the glare layer, and lowering the opacity. Voila! It was done quickly, so the matching isn't perfect, but you get the idea. I used the Reshape / Matte plugin since it's far easier than Rotate / Zoom in this instance. You can move each point, then release the mouse button for a live preview on the screen to make sure you get the corners in the right places. Quote I am not a mechanism, I am part of the resistance; I am an organism, an animal, a creature, I am a beast. ~ Becoming the Archetype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richmantoo Posted July 20, 2007 Author Share Posted July 20, 2007 Whoa...the Matte plug-in is EXACTLY what I needed. The resizing part was what I was having difficulty with. Thank you both so much! Quote Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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