need some of ur help...

[madeyalook]

hi, im doing this website for ma friend... he wants to put this picture.. (http://www.strike9.com/file.aspx?path=/kelv/fullsize/vc06.jpe) on his website.. but wants allt he white stuff to turn to black and but the person does not change colours... anyone nice enuf to do it for me or teach me how to? greatly appreciated..

[mkeefe]

please be more specific on the white stuff

Thanx:o

[Tomas_B]

This might give you a kick in the right direction:

http://www.deepspaceweb.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=9

[A1A2]

paint them black, use the burn tool or selective color change under...er...let me launch photoshop, Image>Adjustment>Selective Color>select whilte from the dropdown menu, push the black fader to the right.

or select everything but ur friend and use the paint bucket tool to fill it w/ black

and many other ways

AL

[Phil_The_Rodent]

Filter>Stylize>Solarize plus history brush?

[madeyalook]

Originally posted by A1A2
paint them black, use the burn tool or selective color change under...er...let me launch photoshop, Image>Adjustment>Selective Color>select whilte from the dropdown menu, push the black fader to the right.

or select everything but ur friend and use the paint bucket tool to fill it w/ black

and many other ways

AL

sorry im not that good with ps.. how do i select everything but the person?

[Phil_The_Rodent]

Incedentally, if you want a perfect inversion of highlights/shadows without affecting your hues, you can

(a) change to lab mode and invert the lightness channel and go back to RGB; or

(b) invert the picture, go into Hue/Saturation, and shift Hue to +180.

[Edited on 1-3-2003 by Phil_The_Rodent]

[A1A2]

Lasso Tool (2nd one from topleft corner) draw around your friend, once done that, go to Select>inverse. There, you got everything but your friend selected. Then just paint bucket with black ink.

AL

[madeyalook]

sorry, but i can't seem to get the lasso tool to go around his whole body evenly.. like i always mess up on one part and i hafta do it all over again.. for example i accidently drew it over his face, etc... can anyone please send me the .psd WITH the person lasso'ed already? or is there a easier way? thnx..:P

[Phil_The_Rodent]

There are four different options with the lasso, all will come in useful if you have butterfingers.

Default setting is new selection. this is the one you have been using.

Add to selection is useful if you, for xample, accidentally didn't select half someone's head. With the selection still active, go back and select the rest of the head and it will add it to the selection.

Subtract from selection would be useful if you accidentally caught some background between fingers or whatever.

Intersect with selection will allow you to make smaller and smaller cuts. It will select the very middle portion of two overlapping lasso paths.

Hope this helps. :)

[madeyalook]

hehe thnx... ye si have butter fingers :D

[SirReal]

as far as the lasso tool goes hol ddown ctrl before you start and this will allow you to let go of the mouse button without closing your selection.