making decals

[crash happy]

how can i make a picture of any thing in to a decal because most of the pics i save i cant save them as jpeg so i cant put them on cars cheers

[The London Allstar]

I believe that you have to make a render of them first, which means deleting all the background.

 

I have photoshop 9 cs2 and to do this i go to the eraser tool and right click it, so a new menu comes up

 

Then click background eraser tool.

 

Now click anywhere on the background and its should take away all of th colour, to leave cheques.

 

Now go back to the eraser tool, and select the normal eraser tool.

 

Now start rendering, just rub out all unwanted parts.

 

Think youve finished and got everything?

 

You're wrong, now go to blending ptions and go down to stroke, select this and press ok

 

Now you should have a red line all the way around your render. This is normal, this shows you how much unwanted parts are still left nxt to the image, if the red line is touching the image thn you done, and where it isnt give it a little bit of a rub out

 

Any loose red patches just rub out, because they are parts u must have missed that cannot be seen with the naked eye

 

 

Well thats my guide to rendering, hope it helps

 

it may have nothing to do with what u wanted, but its there for everyone else too

[crash happy]

cheers for that m8 thats very helpful

[The London Allstar]

No probs, and keep practicing that, your renders get better the more you practice, mine are only just starting to look ok'ish and i been going a while

[reg126]

I use Micrografx picture publisher which is coupled with micrografx windows draw. To do the same is so easy..just draw a mask ..(or maybe use automask) .. then either crop to mask or invert mask and paint (fill ) all the background out in a colour not in use in what you want to save. Then delete that colour and your done.save and use as you want. very quick and easy.