could someone please get rid of the text on the right hand side. thx
no problem
loller skates
what did you honestly expect?
>>291599lollylops
>>291599awesome
Here you go. I'm not gonna touch the watery writing behind the girl though.. way too much effort involved.
>>292090Know of anyone who can do it then?
>>292090Nicely done, sir. Thanks.
>>292448You're most welcome :)>>292446No, but.. tell you what. I'll have a go at replacing the background image entirely, which would be easier than reproducing the original background. No promises though, we'll see how it turns out.
Since people often ask how detexters, background changers, etc. do what they do, I thought it might be fun to document this as I did it. First I found a similar looking ripple background.
Using the 'replace colour' feature in photoshop, I turned the image from red to blue.
I then did a rough cut-out of the girl from the original image and positioned it over the new background.
Then I had to cut her out in detail. I use the polygonal lasso tool and make very small little lines to cut rather than cut freehand with the standard lasso. This is by far the most time-consuming part - obviously, if you don't want the image to be noticably cut-and-pasted you need to take time cleaning up all the edges.
Now, the orignal image had a shadow so I will try to replicate that. First I made a duplicate layer of the girl (now neatly cut out) and made it entirely black. I moved the black layer behind the normal layer, and then moved it down a little to get the shadow effect.Then I removed the shadow parts where her hair or body was underwater. I had to make the shadow disappear as her hair was entering the water (I just used the lasso and paint bucket for this).
Now, to complete the shadow effect I reduced the opacity of the shadow layer. Then I used the blur tool to blur the entire shadow layer and take it's sharp edges away.I also returned to the normal layer of the girl and selected all the parts of the girl's body and hair that were underwater. I made a new layer over the top of the old one, and blurred the parts that were submerged as well to take off the sharp edges and give the 'underwater' effect.
Finally, I darkened the background to bring it closer to what the original background was like. For this I used the burn tool.I also altered that thick bang of hair that was underwater on her right side, since it looked like it was pretty deep into the water I reduced the transparancy mildly as it reached the tips to give it the effect of being deeper underwater.And that's it. Hope you like it!
Alternatively, here's a version where I brightened the background a little (using Brightness/Contrast adjustment and the Dark Strokes filter) rather than darkening it. I prefer this one :)
nice work
this was very relevant to my interests
well done, atomsk
Np, glad you like :)