Help with photoshop

[docquesting]

I hate being stupid thanks for yalls help anyways

[Pipeline-Webdesign]

you'll never learn the best way if you don't TRY several ways... stop giving up so quickly!

[Jazzee]

Open a blank transparent canvas. Paste the picture onto a new layer. Click the layer mask button. Paint black over the background. It will dissapear.

or

Open a blank transparent canvas. Select the part of the image you want to keep using the selection tool. Go to select -> inverse. Hit delete.

[Fusion]

Duplicate the bg layer, wand tool it, bash delete, then you have your slipper floating, so you can do whatever thy pleases with it.

[Fusion]

Take a wand tool wave it in the air, run around the living room 5 times, do two rolley polleys, sing this incantation* and then turn the monitor on and off 8 times.

*umbabaaa
Huuhaaa
lonnnaan
mucaheeaa
mnaaaannan

make sure you pull scarey monster faces at the same time uhuhhhhh.

[docquesting]

This is making me hungry. Program has its own mind. Will coe back a little later for help. Maybe I am more stupid than I thought.

[Atom]

Select "magic eraser tool", click on the white.

[docquesting]

Now I have another problem. I typed in text on the image but of course it goes on as another layer without you doing that. Anyway when I try to drag image over into another one it only moves the text and not the image. Of course that is after saving it. What do I do about that?

[Atom]

link the images that you want moved together, in the layers palate by clicking in the small square to the left of the layer. A chain link icon will appear. Then the ones you have a chain link icon next to will move together. This only works if you've saved it as a psd. Saving as a psd saves the layers seperately so that they can be worked with at a future time.. Once you save as jpg or gif the layers are combined and not present seperately anymore, so you should always save as a psd as well as jpg or gif. (save it twice)

[docquesting]

Thats getting closer to hot I suppose still doesnt help this newbie much I only two little squares that says indicates painting on layer or layer mask and inicates layer visibility.

[Atom]

there is an "eye" icon in one of the 2 squares next to each layer.... click the "other" square, next to the eye one, and a chain link icon will appear.

[Jazzee]

You should read some tutorials on how to use layers.

[Atom]

Yes... you'll pick up a few good tips reading the tutorials that come in PS.

help/photoshop help/using layers

[Fusion]

You not done it yet Joe?

[docquesting]

When I click on the square next to the eye nothing at all happens. Just a little hand for the mouse over top the square.

[Fusion]

Read up on layers; this is the most basic part of it.

[Atom]

That means it's too late ,,, you don't have a psd.... you have a jpg or gif most likely...

after you build layers, you need to file/save as/psd

What you have already done will not be in seperate layers anymore after you close the program if you choose "no", what you do is choose "yes" when prompted at closing, Xing out of an image you've worked on in PS will bring you to the same window as "file/save as" does ... but make sure it says psd in the save window.. if it doesn't say psd, click the drop down and choose psd before clicking ok... you will then be able to open that image in the future in PS, and have all the seperate layers present.

[docquesting]

Ahh duh let me do that and see what happens then I can resave as other type of file when I am done right?

P.s I tried resaving it as psd and still doesnt work.

[Atom]

Originally Posted by docquesting

P.s I tried resaving it as psd and still doesnt work.

No because it's too late... you have to start doing something to it again and then you'll have the option of saving everything you do in layers, if you save as psd, but what you've already done was not saved as a psd, so it's lost. The only thing you have now is the "combined result" of your layers, and it's not seperable anymore because you didn't save a copy as a psd.