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Well, if for example I have 4 pics from 4 different ppl and want to get the bikes into one picture... just the bikes with the same background for all of them... how would I got about that? :D

This is the way I would do it..

Trace round the bikes using the freehand selection tool, does not have to be perfect as you will tidy them up in a bit.

Copy and paste these onto the master image (the one with the background), they will each paste into a new layer.

Then tidy them up using the brush eraser to take out the edges that you left when doing the selection, this will erase to transparent (as long as the layers are set to transparent background). Then they can be rescaled, moved etc.

The order of the layers determines which bike is at the front etc. but they must all be on top of the background image.

This is a very quick and dirty example, I have to go to an appointment so not much time, I have done it with my bike form a photo, pasted it onto one of yours and tidied up a little bit around the front, you can see how I traced it from the rest of the bike. Its not perfect but will give you an idea. I didn't have time to sort out the scaling either but each layer can be resized to make it all look right.

Oh, and just for a bit of fun I took the bloke with the guitar out as well!!,
 
Thanks for the tips plastic pig, can you do shadows too?


Aaargh, going to be late for my meeting!!!

Take the cutout, put it into a new document, turn it to greyscale, gaussian blur it loads, paste it onto the original and flip vertically, transform to make it longer and set that layer transparency to about 70%

This is really poo looking as I don't have time to do it properly but will give you an idea.
 
This is the way I would do it..

Trace round the bikes using the freehand selection tool, does not have to be perfect as you will tidy them up in a bit.

Copy and paste these onto the master image (the one with the background), they will each paste into a new layer.

Then tidy them up using the brush eraser to take out the edges that you left when doing the selection, this will erase to transparent (as long as the layers are set to transparent background). Then they can be rescaled, moved etc.

The order of the layers determines which bike is at the front etc. but they must all be on top of the background image.

This is a very quick and dirty example, I have to go to an appointment so not much time, I have done it with my bike form a photo, pasted it onto one of yours and tidied up a little bit around the front, you can see how I traced it from the rest of the bike. Its not perfect but will give you an idea. I didn't have time to sort out the scaling either but each layer can be resized to make it all look right.

Oh, and just for a bit of fun I took the bloke with the guitar out as well!!,


Wow, Wavex's bike is HUGE. How do you get a leg over that monster.... Just kidding, that is a very good demonstration.
 
nimzotech posted this way back.

http://www.600riders.com/forum/bar/2689-free-photoshop-lesson.html

That's how I figured out how to do this.....

watermark.php
 
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This is the way I would do it..

Trace round the bikes using the freehand selection tool, does not have to be perfect as you will tidy them up in a bit.

Copy and paste these onto the master image (the one with the background), they will each paste into a new layer.

Then tidy them up using the brush eraser to take out the edges that you left when doing the selection, this will erase to transparent (as long as the layers are set to transparent background). Then they can be rescaled, moved etc.

The order of the layers determines which bike is at the front etc. but they must all be on top of the background image.

This is a very quick and dirty example, I have to go to an appointment so not much time, I have done it with my bike form a photo, pasted it onto one of yours and tidied up a little bit around the front, you can see how I traced it from the rest of the bike. Its not perfect but will give you an idea. I didn't have time to sort out the scaling either but each layer can be resized to make it all look right.

Oh, and just for a bit of fun I took the bloke with the guitar out as well!!,

Thanks bro that helps... now for the rescaling of the layers, could you give me a hint for where I can find this option? I had tried that in the past and could never resize a layer... I had to manually resize the original pic (resolution) and then re-crop the pic to get my layer...

Thanks again!
 
Thanks bro that helps... now for the rescaling of the layers, could you give me a hint for where I can find this option? I had tried that in the past and could never resize a layer... I had to manually resize the original pic (resolution) and then re-crop the pic to get my layer...

Thanks again!

If the bike is the only thing on the layer then just use the transform tool to scale it up.
 
I am a big fan of the lazer quad exhaust. I almost bought them but i have a friend who bought it for his bike and i didnt like the sound. I guess looks really isnt everything.
 
That makes it even more obvious that you need to powder coated your rearsets + radiator covers, & remove the sticker on the frame :D
 
I played around with Photoshop tonight and made my bike look slower... I think it worked out pretty sweet.

Original:

Bikes023.jpg


Photoshopped:

RedFZ.jpg
 
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