background

Lords of glamorgarth · **Posted:** Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:37 pm

a very silly nooby questian
how do you make a background?:oops:
just a flat clour or one that goes from light to dark
I just can't seem to do it

lightning2911 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:12 pm

do you mean cardboard as a background for taking photos of minis or a digital background when editing an existing photo of a mini?

Haldir_pl · **Posted:** Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:13 pm

I use Photoshop. It's easy just choose Gradient option and decide between radious and kinds of gradient

And it's done

Beatrice · **Posted:** Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:15 am

as background at taking pics I use uni-coloured thick paper.

what is also nice if one has the chance to, is to put the mini outside in real nature (maybe on a small post), focus on mini and get trees/grass/bushes/sky blurred in the background

(replacing a background later in an picture editing program will look artificial/not quite right most of the times ...)

Lords of glamorgarth · **Posted:** Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:02 pm

i mean when ededing the pics with photoshop
it always seems to stay half look trough-ish

Beatrice · **Posted:** Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:57 pm

hmmm, could you describe ' half look trough-ish' a bit more precisely?
or tell us what you've done so far?

Lords of glamorgarth · **Posted:** Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:49 pm

I use a dutch version of photoshop so some name will be transletted wrong
used a guide on tLA to learn it [/url]http://www.thelastalliance.com/index.php?pid=disparticle&catid=1&subid=4&artilceid=2120[url]

1 copy layer delete layer, cropping,autocontrast/autocolours,magic wand

2layer>new>layer
Blending Options >colour
When I leave it in red (standard) all is fine but if I change it to blue then it be comes look trou heres an image (with text )
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putted the bla bla bla text behind the background to show its look trou

also how do you make an jpg file of it?
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Beatrice · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:59 am

looks as if your background layer's opacity is set to something less than 100%.
go to the layer palette, select the layer, look at top of the palette bar and see what percentage it shows. either type in 100% or use the slider to adjust it.

apart from that: your aragorn shows a white 'aura'/border all around him.
(I am sure all good tutorials tell you about that)

in short: that is because you selected/cut the original background without feathering/smoothing the edges.

there are a several ways to do that before of after cutting...

e.g. when having selected a tool you can choose in the top bar of photoshop anti-alias which will already give you some nice edge.
also the feathering field let's you set some border width of feathering/smoothening while selecting

then: in the top menu 'Select' you'll find subitem 'Feather' where you can set the border width that will get smoothenend after you have made your selection (careful: too large amount will create a romantic look)

and you can Clean the edges e.g. after having pasted a selection, etc.

but the two tips above should do the job.

Lords of glamorgarth · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:11 am

yes found it
it was 99% and when I scroled the bar didn't go further
but now I just typed 100% so all is fine

I made the white shine around him
next photo I'll use the feather tool

thanks a lot guys
a specialy you Beatrice really help my out

sunitasaloni · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:49 am **Posts:** 3

I always use photoshop for this

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:37 am

I don't have Photoshop, but do all presentations with MS Publisher, works well, not as good as Photoshop, but quite effective though...

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