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okay, so i chose to use one of my vinyl figures as the subject of this book project. his name is ox, and he’s a blind box ‘action figure’ from the ugly dolls family. (side note: they are the most awesomest stuffed animals – everyone should own one!)
so far, i’ve only done a handful of the computer generated photos so that i have the ten to post to my flickr page by classtime tomorrow morning. last minute much?
i had to hand-select ox (and the hoola hoop in the pic below), cause apparently i’m blind and/or the powers that be decided to remove the extract tool when they released cs4. the help file was no help at all, as it came up with 0 solutions. i googled and checked out one hit (just now, again) to check out better help files, and now that i’ve already done all that work, i find a download that will give me the wonderous extract tool. SO…i will be doing that and then re-doing my original images again, methinks, this weekend. i want prettier extractions!
i’m so proud that i figured out how to add the hoola hoop semi-realistically here – just had to share. *grins*
that hoop (that i made, cause that’s what i do!) was pulled out of a picture of my daughter hooping. then i dragged it onto the ox picture, transformed it til i liked how it sat on him, and then used the eraser tool to get rid of the “backside” of the hoop – the trick i learned for this is to click the checkbox at the top menu bar (when you have the eraser tool chosen) – it says erase to history….this is MAGICAL! instead of having to clone stamp or bandaid everything, it literally just erases like you never dragged the object over. of course, ox was on a background (and thus locked) layer, so he was the history. so helpful and neat!
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