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OK, Here's the story.(short version) I bought an upgrade to CS2 from V 6.0 academic. I am trying to fool around with a certain effect. Here's a link to that effect.......
Out of Bounds Object

The problem comes when I try to cut out the center of my white square to make a border. It says use "ctrl x". When I do this, it merely cuts my background out, not the center of the white square.
I am stuck at this step............

Aurorapractice2.jpg


Any help, suggestions, or ideas, as to why it will not work? I am not as advanced a user as the provider of the example, so I may be missing something that someone else can help me with.
Thanks!

Ciao,
Rick
 
I am no guru but have you tried doing a "Select Inverse" once you have made your selection. After that try your cut operation. That might give you the effect you are looking for. I have found that a lot of the tutorials out there leave off steps just like that.
 
Did you set up all the layer masks, and make an "original copy" layer? These have to be stacked in the correct order for this to work.
 
starwarsdad said:
I am no guru but have you tried doing a "Select Inverse" once you have made your selection. After that try your cut operation. That might give you the effect you are looking for. I have found that a lot of the tutorials out there leave off steps just like that.
Click to expand...

Tried that. :rolleyes: Same results
And yeah, it would appear the instructions are lacking something. I am a total newbie with this stuff. But I got ideas. :) I want to do this, and things like stuffing my head, (or my bosses LOL) into my snakes mouth. :dgrin: :dgrin: Just for fun, and creativity.

Anyway, I have tried the inverse selection, have tried making all layers visible. have tried also to do it in quick mask mode. I have the correct layers masked, and they link themselves, and i have tried unlinking them also. I get the same results, my background (original) cuts out instead. :hot: :hot:

I am guessing there is more than one way to do it, and I will try other things in the mean time. I am guessing also, that since my full version is acedemic version, it may be lacking a few base features. ????

Thanks for the ideas though. Will post if I get it figured out.

Ciao,
Rick
 
The tutorial seems to take things the long route...I used a few short cuts and threw this together quick...
 

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Het, that's more detail than I went for :) You got the shadows put down better than I could also. And I like those frogs. colorful litle things.
I figured it out, but like you said, the instructions seem to be the long route, or lacking. I had to just play around till I figured it out, and it was basically, a LOT different than the instructions.
Here's what I came up with after some persistance.
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73194


Ciao,
Rick
 
Here's the other one I did...

I was pretty bored last night and thought I'd test out the tutorials method. It drove me nuts so I did not my way.

I'm a graphic artist btw. ;)
 

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Hey, that's pretty cool looking. never though about leaving bushes outside the frame.
A graphic artist huh? Wish I could say something like that. LOL
I'm a Civil / construction surveyor by trade. Only thing I'm good at, is trig / geometry and shooting firearms. :) and sometimes my pictures actually turn out well. LOL

Here's another I was working on, but wasn't happy with the shading. I wanted to try something else, but I need more pics.

Monitor5.jpg
 
This was a thread on PHOTOSHOP, not PHOTOGRAPHY. Also, if you are interested in advertising your site, Rich offers paid advertising options as well as a classifieds section.
 
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