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Ok Missy. Open your picture.
Use the Magic Wand to select the area outside your people. The Magic Wand is in the toolbar to the left and it's the third one down. It may look like a dotted box or a lasso but the one you want is the one that looks like a magic wand. Click on the arrow to the right of the dotted box or the lasso to find it.
In the settings for the magic wand on the toolbar above use the dropdown box under Match Mode and choose RGB (I'm assuming that the background to the people is one flat colour). There is also a tickbox with the word Contiguous next to it. Make sure that this is ticked. Click with the wand on the background.
Next hold down the Ctrl button and the Shift button and tap the letter P. This will make a new layer (but you don't need to worry about it.)
Get the bucket from the toolbar on the left. It's about 11 down from the Magic Wand. Make sure that the colour you are filling with is black and click on the background.
Next hold down the Ctrl button and the Shift button and hit the letter P again to create another layer.
Now go to Selections, then choose Modify under that and then Contract. Choose between 1 and 3 pixels. Click ok.
Now get your bucket tool again making sure this time that white is selected as the fill. Click on the background.
Go to Layers, Merge, Merge all Flatten.
That should do what you want. Good luck.
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Use the Magic Wand to select the area outside your people. The Magic Wand is in the toolbar to the left and it's the third one down. It may look like a dotted box or a lasso but the one you want is the one that looks like a magic wand. Click on the arrow to the right of the dotted box or the lasso to find it.
In the settings for the magic wand on the toolbar above use the dropdown box under Match Mode and choose RGB (I'm assuming that the background to the people is one flat colour). There is also a tickbox with the word Contiguous next to it. Make sure that this is ticked. Click with the wand on the background.
Next hold down the Ctrl button and the Shift button and tap the letter P. This will make a new layer (but you don't need to worry about it.)
Get the bucket from the toolbar on the left. It's about 11 down from the Magic Wand. Make sure that the colour you are filling with is black and click on the background.
Next hold down the Ctrl button and the Shift button and hit the letter P again to create another layer.
Now go to Selections, then choose Modify under that and then Contract. Choose between 1 and 3 pixels. Click ok.
Now get your bucket tool again making sure this time that white is selected as the fill. Click on the background.
Go to Layers, Merge, Merge all Flatten.
That should do what you want. Good luck.
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The dropdown box is the one that appears when you click on the little arrow to the right of icons (the pictures that represent things.
No, it's not a way to colour the background, it's a way to get a line around the pictures (pix). You don't have to use black and white. With my instructions, black will give you a black line around the pix, the other colour (and it can be anything you want) will put the background back to whatever colour it was orginally.
Go on Missy, try it out.
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No, it's not a way to colour the background, it's a way to get a line around the pictures (pix). You don't have to use black and white. With my instructions, black will give you a black line around the pix, the other colour (and it can be anything you want) will put the background back to whatever colour it was orginally.
Go on Missy, try it out.
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Thanks for that, AJL. I didn't know about Contract. I guess Contract is the reason for creating the new layers, otherwise one could just select the background with the Wand and fill it with white, period. It's hard to tell the difference.
But if all Missy wants is to draw a frame around the people, then all that's needed is the Rectangle (Preset, Ellipse, Symmetric) tool, about 4th from the bottom on the left.
But if all Missy wants is to draw a frame around the people, then all that's needed is the Rectangle (Preset, Ellipse, Symmetric) tool, about 4th from the bottom on the left.
Ah but if you understand txt spk (I have a teenage daughter) then you will realise that that's not what she wants to do. She wants to outline the people in her picture not the box/frame. (I think ![[dazed]](/data/assets/smilies/dazed.gif "[dazed] [dazed]")
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> Ah but if you understand txt spk (I have a teenage daughter) then you will realise that that's not what she wants to do. She wants to outline the people in her picture not the box/frame.
I'll have to take your word for it, AJL. My daughter is 30.
I hope for your sake that the background in question is one flat colour. Otherwise the chandeliers are in serious danger of getting stained.
Anyway, I gave you a star for your helpful nature, your patience, your expertise, and your insight into the teenage "mind".
I'll have to take your word for it, AJL. My daughter is 30.
I hope for your sake that the background in question is one flat colour. Otherwise the chandeliers are in serious danger of getting stained.
Anyway, I gave you a star for your helpful nature, your patience, your expertise, and your insight into the teenage "mind".
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> kk i keep tryin but my pix changes color now... cant get the out line 2 work
Which particular piece of advice are you following, Missy? Without that vital piece of information I'm afraid we're as much in the dark as you are.
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Which particular piece of advice are you following, Missy? Without that vital piece of information I'm afraid we're as much in the dark as you are.
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In the settings for the magic wand on the toolbar above use the dropdown box under Match Mode and choose RGB (I'm assuming that the background to the people is one flat colour). There is also a tickbox with the word Contiguous next to it. Make sure that this is ticked. Click with the wand on the background..........AYJAYEL thats the bit i dont get
Sorry for not replying sooner Missy. I've been on leave.
Answer me a couple of questions first.
Does your picture have a plain white background? Or does it have a different colour? Or is the background graduated (does it start with one colour/shade and graduate to another?)?
Have you found the Magic Wand?
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Answer me a couple of questions first.
Does your picture have a plain white background? Or does it have a different colour? Or is the background graduated (does it start with one colour/shade and graduate to another?)?
Have you found the Magic Wand?
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PedalSteel
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> Does your picture have a plain white background? Or does it have a different colour?
> Or is the background graduated (does it start with one colour/shade and graduate to another?)?
Or -- more likely -- is the background composed of lots of different shades, like this . . .
Is that the kind of thing you're seeing, Missy?
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> Or is the background graduated (does it start with one colour/shade and graduate to another?)?
Or -- more likely -- is the background composed of lots of different shades, like this . . .
Is that the kind of thing you're seeing, Missy?
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thanks for ya replys again ... ne how this is wot im doin uploadin my pix, then removein the background... then im usein the magic wand...bucket tool.. drop down tool....clickin on the background ...addin a raster layer...Selections..Modify .. contract..bucket tool again ... then merge .. merge flatten all .... after ive done that i get a white background then a gap around the ppl on the pic,i want the white line around the ppl ... then i want 2 put that pic on another pic .... and also can u tell me how i make pics look like a cartoons .. thanks x
PedalSteel
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> i get a white background then a gap around the ppl on the pic,i want the white line around the ppl ...
> then i want 2 put that pic on another pic .... and also can u tell me how i make pics look like a cartoons ..
I clearly have little or no idea what it is you want, what your problem is with what you've already done, why I try to help you to do what my fertile imagination suggests you might be wanting to do, and especially why you seriously expect anyone here to understand your brand of "English".
If you can't be bothered to make your question at least halfway intelligible to the people who probably have the answers, you can't seriously expect them to be bothered to try and help you. I give up.
Your only hope now is AJL. Over and out.
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> then i want 2 put that pic on another pic .... and also can u tell me how i make pics look like a cartoons ..
I clearly have little or no idea what it is you want, what your problem is with what you've already done, why I try to help you to do what my fertile imagination suggests you might be wanting to do, and especially why you seriously expect anyone here to understand your brand of "English".
If you can't be bothered to make your question at least halfway intelligible to the people who probably have the answers, you can't seriously expect them to be bothered to try and help you. I give up.
Your only hope now is AJL. Over and out.
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Yeah, i know what you mean Pedasteel. I'm going to try one more time(I left this thread a while ago, but it seems You haven't progressed).
This time I have prepared some visual aids. Which one of these pictures looks like what you want to do to your picture.
A)
B)
C)
And i must again ask you, to write in normal English, stop using internet abbreviations like "ppl" or "ne1" it makes it very hard to read, and to understand,. As you should by now have realized.
If English is not your native language, maybe you can tell us which one is, and someone here might be able to write to you in that language so we can understand what you want, and you can understand what we are telling you.
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This time I have prepared some visual aids. Which one of these pictures looks like what you want to do to your picture.
A)
B)
C)
And i must again ask you, to write in normal English, stop using internet abbreviations like "ppl" or "ne1" it makes it very hard to read, and to understand,. As you should by now have realized.
If English is not your native language, maybe you can tell us which one is, and someone here might be able to write to you in that language so we can understand what you want, and you can understand what we are telling you.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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