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I am wondering if any of my fellow Dakkites are PS guru's. I took a class about 4 years ago, but have since then forgot much of my instruction. Basically I'm looking to merge a selection from a picture and take a selection from another picture and inpit it into the old selection's space. The reason I'm doing this is that I found a great deal of old propaganda posters and am in the process of making them for terrain.

So far I have made this one:

It's a nice thing to work with, spending some time with ps is good... but what exactly was your doubt?

I was experimenting the other day and from a B&W pic, I did this crappy job.

Anyway, it's the first, so next attempts might be better. I've still got a lot to learn, since I never had any kind of tutoring on it.

Hey Destrado.

Basically what I want to do is take the first picture and edit out the tank and replace it with the 2nd picture. I'd like to keep the text and background color of the original though.

Well, on the first pic you'll have to use the stamp tool. It allows you to select a part of the background and "stamp" over the vehicle. Bear in mind that since I don't have that much experience, this is probably a harder way.

On the second pic, since you have to extract the figure, I'd recommend selecting the magic wand tool to get the top part surrounding the guardsman, and the spaces between his chest and his body.

You can do it all in one go, just select the larger area with the wand (it will select most of the white around the guardsman) and then hold shift. The wand will now have a little + next to it.

Now you pick the spaces between the arms. If you accidentally select more than you'd want, try a higher tolerance (that is, a lower number) or to subtract hold down alt (if I remember the shortcuts).

Not sure if this is what you want, I'll get both pics and launch PS to try it out

EDIT: I don't know if this is what you wanted. I had to make extensive use of the stamp tool. Once everything was selected around the trooper, I used ctrl + shift + i to invert the selection and ctrl + c to copy it. Afterwards, it was paste as a different layer over the previous image (just ctrl + v). This way I could use the burn tool to go over the sides, that were left with a white halo because the trooper had a lighter background.

The letters on top were slightly corrected using the stamp (especially the S in Service, as I was a bit careless when erasing the tank).

But I would recommend trying a different approach to these posters, like getting high-res pictures (these ones were full of artifacts, which makes it harder to work with and dulls the final job) or outright copy.

I must get my hands on some more, this is kinda cool

I hope I didn't forget anything. Sorry 'bout the lousy ps, too, but I'm using a laptop (and 11.1" at that) and the brightness might be off...

I don't know if this is helpful or not, but in my bookmarks I have a folder called, "Keepers for whatever reason" and in them is this. "You suck at Photoshop #3". There are a bunch of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWn0lxRNqos&feature=related

Tacobake wrote:I don't know if this is helpful or not, but in my bookmarks I have a folder called, "Keepers for whatever reason" and in them is this. "You suck at Photoshop #3". There are a bunch of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWn0lxRNqos&feature=related

Helpful.

If you need to get rid of some evidence.

Awesome! Thank you! I'm trying to build up a collection of printable posters for terrain and I'm thinking about putting them together in a pack for Dakka. Not sure how that would work, but I'd like to do that.

That Youtube clip was hilarious! Thanks Taco

On an ironic note, it's probably about time I started to familiarize myself with PS a lot more since I am an Art major! XD

The video was quite good, actually!

VermG all it takes is a little practice and self critic. I destroy 3/4ths of my works, and even then I only keep that 1/4th as a reminder for future generations of what NOT to do.

It kills kittens when you see those nasty PS guys do with a cool image of them and their gf. Like this one.

Someone from the OT zone was actually the one to find it first, but np.

yeah, it's a good video. The guy makes it look so easy.