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| Professor 1783th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Need some help!"
, posted Sat 29 Mar 19:24
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Hey, I'm trying to make some of these and I'm following the directions on the link, but I'm having some issues.
1. I'm not sure when I'm supposed to insert the images. So I apply the checker mask to my forground layer with an image on it? Or is the image supposed to be in the background?
2. I apply the checkerboard mask, but I hit q then delete, but that doesn't seem to do anything.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
The best way to go around it is like this.
Prepare 2 images, one as the foreground (visible) layer and one as the background (hidden) layer. On the back of the hidden(background) layer, place another layer of totally white background. [ Sample ]
Make a 2 x 2 checkerboard image where the top-left begins with black. You can use [ This ] if you want. Select all and define as pattern.
On the foreground layer, run a quickmask by hitting Q, and then "Fill" using the pattern by 100% opacity. If you've succeeded, the image should be looking quite pink. There should be a web of selection lines running through the image. Hit delete, and then de-select. By now, the image should look half-transparent, and most of the job is already done. The only thing you have laft to do is try hiding the background layer.
Select the background layer, and toy around with its opacity to make it look less revealing. Transparencey around 15-25% is usally a good line. You can also try adjusting the forground layer's colors/levels to try and hide the background layer as well.
Once that's done, just save the image as a high quality jpeg, and try viewing it on your Internet Explorer to see if it works. Voila.
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| Radish 1070th Post
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| "Re(2):Need some help!" , posted Sat 29 Mar 19:26
quote:
Hey, I'm trying to make some of these and I'm following the directions on the link, but I'm having some issues.
1. I'm not sure when I'm supposed to insert the images. So I apply the checker mask to my forground layer with an image on it? Or is the image supposed to be in the background?
2. I apply the checkerboard mask, but I hit q then delete, but that doesn't seem to do anything.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
The best way to go around it is like this.
Prepare 2 images, one as the foreground (visible) layer and one as the background (hidden) layer. On the back of the hidden(background) layer, place another layer of totally white background. [ Sample ]
Make a 2 x 2 checkerboard image where the top-left begins with black. You can use [ This ] if you want. Select all and define as pattern.
On the foreground layer, run a quickmask by hitting Q, and then "Fill" using the pattern by 100% opacity. If you've succeeded, the image should be looking quite pink. There should be a web of selection lines running through the image. Hit delete, and then de-select. By now, the image should look half-transparent, and most of the job is already done. The only thing you have laft to do is try hiding the background layer.
Select the background layer, and toy around with its opacity to make it look less revealing. Transparencey around 15-25% is usally a good line. You can also try adjusting the forground layer's colors/levels to try and hide the background layer as well.
Once that's done, just save the image as a high quality jpeg, and try viewing it on your Internet Explorer to see if it works. Voila.
Thanks! I'm not at my home computer, but I'll try that when I get home. I'm more used to PaintShopPro so adobe is a little foreign to me.
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| Juke Joint Jezebel 1754th Post
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|  "Re(2):Hidden Images"
, posted Sun 30 Mar 05:53:
quite sexy!
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On the foreground layer, run a quickmask by hitting Q, and then "Fill" using the pattern by 100% opacity. If you've succeeded, the image should be looking quite pink. There should be a web of selection lines running through the image. Hit delete, and then de-select. By now, the image should look half-transparent, and most of the job is already done. The only thing you have laft to do is try hiding the background layer.
by the way, don't forget to exit quickmask mode (my pressing Q again) before hitting delete and de-selecting
i sorta got it to work
1st EDIT:
by the way, i had to darken the foreground layer to make it look less transparent. i used, uh ... the, well .. i don't remember what i selected. just screw with it until it looks pretty
2nd EDIT:
by the way, ugh ...
"by the way" >:o
[this message was edited by Juke Joint Jezebel on Sun 30 Mar 20:22] |
| Radish 1072th Post
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| "Re(3):Hidden Images" , posted Sun 30 Mar 06:14:
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quite sexy!
On the foreground layer, run a quickmask by hitting Q, and then "Fill" using the pattern by 100% opacity. If you've succeeded, the image should be looking quite pink. There should be a web of selection lines running through the image. Hit delete, and then de-select. By now, the image should look half-transparent, and most of the job is already done. The only thing you have laft to do is try hiding the background layer.
by the way, don't forget to exit quickmask mode (my pressing Q again) before hitting delete and de-selecting
i sorta got it to work
EDIT:
by the way, i had to darken the foreground layer to make it look less transparent. i used, uh ... the, well .. i don't remember what i selected. just screw with it until it looks pretty
Yeah, I was forgetting to exit quickmask mode. Took me a while to figure that one out.
First attempt here
The colors don't really hide each other well since the majority of the hidden image is where the foreground in white. I don't have many gifs saved on my harddisk so my selection was limited. I found that lightening the image hid them better than darkening it since my foreground had lighter colors.
Thanks a bunch Proffesor! Your instructions were really helpful.
[this message was edited by Radish on Sun 30 Mar 06:15] |
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