 YBoris
join:2001-06-01
Old Bridge, NJ
| more advanced TUTORIAL My Tutorial
first off: (as I read from this board) avatars can be 40x(30-50) pixels
my task: I wish to have the 2nd image be in the first one, but so that you still see the blue circle, but no white space.
In addition, I want that circle to be like a magnifying glass, so that the background is "enlarged" within the circle
Paintshop Pro 5 Tutorial
(will work with all later versions)
(I will use my 2 images as an example)
Select the first image, crop it to a square: Click the "select" tool, click on "toggle control palette"
select "square" from dropdown, select the area of the flag
now, click "image" (to the right of file, edit, etc) and click "crop to selection"
now you have a nice square background
click "image/resize" and resize to 95x95 - because that's the size of the second image
Now, in the "control palette" from dropdown, select "circle", click in the middle of the background, and drag outward to select a circle (select a smaller circle than the square ...
copy it (edit/copy) and "paste as a new image"
now (with the circle image pasted) click "image" and select resize. Select the precent, and resize it to 120 (% of original) once resized, select the circle and paste it back to image 1 ... you should see the circle as if it was through a magnifying glass ...
Now I will work with 2nd image
select the "Magic Wand" tool, open the "controls" toolbar and view its "tool controls" options make the tolerance 50 (in my case it works well ... if doesn't in yours - increase to take more pixels in, decrease to pick less pixels in your selection)
click outside the blue circle ... it will select the whole white area and a tiny bit of the blue (that's good, that's what the "tolerance" is for)
now, press "shift" (and hold) and press inside the circle on the white (to select that part) ... do so (holding shift) untill you select the whole background. Now let go of "shift" ... click on "selections" (to the right og the file, edit, image, etc) and click "invert"
now the whole image is selected (without background)
click "edit" click "copy" ... now you are good
open image 1 (with the magnified circle) and "paste as a new selection" ... carry your mouse over the picture and click when you have the image2 in place
now, (almost done) "image/resize" and select to resize by pixels. Resize to 40x40
and save it.
Now you will have the final picture
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 redxiiPremium,Mod
join:2001-02-26
Sherwood, MI | Images seem broken. |
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| Yeah, they're on a geocities site, and gc no longer allows remote linking of images.  |
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Anon | reply to YBoris
We'd appreciate if you could re-do it, YBoris, with working pics, because it looks like a good tutorial. |
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redxiiPremium,Mod
join:2001-02-26
Sherwood, MI | reply to YBoris
Use »members.aol.com/redxii1234/ and the file name at the end, then it should work.
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 Hey Girl$I'M Feeling Blue.Premium
join:2001-08-30
Emerald Hill | reply to YBoris
www.altavista.com allows you to link to images on other sites, but only .gifs, not .jpgs.
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YBoris
join:2001-06-01
Old Bridge, NJ | reply to YBoris
menus for dummies just the menus from PaintShop Pro 5
just the things I was talking about in my tutorial
 :):)
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