some type of layering??

[klinky]

Bullshit, you're just lazy and don't want to try. You'd rather bug us here asking inane questions that are easily answered in the manual or PREVIOUS THREADS. Your question has been asked millions of times.

It's simple to erase the background from the character. Then overlay him on the background. THIS IS VERY BASIC COMPOSITING. It's VERY TIME CONSUMING. Photoshop, Premiere & After Effects all support Alpha channels. So load up your background, place it on track1, load up your character with his background erased, make sure you saved it as a PSD file, then place him on track2. Setup the Transperancy settings to Alpha Channel. Boom. Done.

Someone suggested the magic wand. Maybe you should LOOK IN THE HELP FILE AND FIND SOME INFORMATION ON IT:



Next time spend more than 2minutes trying to find the answer. You've already asked like 10questions in the past that are BASICS, that ARE COVERED IN DEPTH IN THE MANUAL. We are not YOUR MANUAL.


~klinky

[trythil]

That was beautiful.

[Mr Pilkington]

Bullshit, you're just lazy and don't want to try. You'd rather bug us here asking inane questions that are easily answered in the manual or PREVIOUS THREADS. Your question has been asked millions of times.

Woooooha!!! Klinky chill. Don't giver yourself a hernia.

Use the mask tool, its the easiest and in my opinion the most acuarate.

how would i go about doing it that way??

Well depending on the version (I use 7.0) there should be a tool that kind of resembles an arrow, more or less, in your tool bar to the left. You may have to hunt through the "help" section. Use this to outline the character(s). You can arc the tool by clicking and while holding the primary and dragging in any direction. This will take practice! The once you have the outline complete. Go to you left menu and the "layer" tab. Once you have located this go to "Paths" (should be right next door). Right click on "path 1" and go to "Make selection." Better, faster and far more accurate than the Lasso.

Theere is a complete guid to this at http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/(its in mac so be ready to translate)

[CHWOODYARD]

Bebop, if you want to make one still image composited into another, I would make a mask. The way that I like to do it is by exporting the background image and the composite image into 2 seperate files. Then in the composite image file choose the Channels tab (or click on Windows and select Channels to open it) and select a new channel. Click on the RGB eye to the left of the name. Finally, use the brush to paint int the selection of the character (keeping in mind that the new channel is selected and the Background Layer is selected.) After having the channel composite image brushed red around the image, click on the little circle in Channel pallete to select the image and copy and paste it into the background, if the wrong selection is made hit Edit>Undo and invert the selection in the Alpha Channel and copy and paste it again. Save the image as a PSD and then flatten it and then save it as a different PSD. Adjust the Alpha channel for each frame if you want to do more compsiting.

[madmag9999]

how to put two vid files ontop of one another so i can see the one thats behind the other one i have adobe premier so if u could tell me how to do that with premier

[AbsoluteDestiny]

RTFM!!!

[Nurd]

Geeezus, Y'know, I'm no expert at this, practically an absolute newbie, and the manual is fine and good for telling what a tool does, but doesn't anyone just fiddle around with all the shiny buttons anymore? To find out what they do?

I learned most of what I know about softwares and such not by reading about it, but just saying hey, what happens if I click that and do THIS. Of course I'd say 60% of the time I had to quickly hit the CTRL-Z key to undo whatever nasty torture I had managed to inflict on my video clip/ image/ insert-other-editable-object-here. And not only that, for things that didn't work like I thought they should, or when I clicked every button and none of them seemed to do what I wanted, I could always go to yahoo, ask.com, google or any other search site and type in what I wanted to do like "Pasting part of one image into another in The Gimp" (replace "The Gimp" with whichever tool you are using, whether it be Photoshop, Premiere or MsPaint) and have always gotten at least one tutorial.

I understand you are excited to get the idea that's in your head, onto the screen, but I think trying a few self-support techniques might garner you a little better reception in the forums when you ask a question. It's alot easier to forgive someone who says:

"Ok I read this tutorial, and then tried to cut this out using that tool and paste it over here on this layer using this effect and it comes out all hosed, what am I doing wrong?"

than it is to read:

"How do I do this?" <given suggestion> "Thanks, now how do I do that?" (repeat ad infinitum.)


Just some suggestions from your friendly neighborhood geek-on-the-street


Nurd