Thursday, March 26, 2009

Photoshop 7.0 I need to make an outline/trace of a picture of mine for a t-shirt. Help how?

Hey okay i have a picture I made of a cool pumpkin design and I copied it and then i grayscaled. I want to make outlines of the pumpkin itself, the eyes, and mouth only so basically I want it to look like a coloring book picture. (Or since it%26#039;s a jack o lantern think of drawing the pumpkin outline, the eyes, and the mouth, that%26#039;s what i want it to look like so i can get it printed onto a shirt) how do i do this? and I don%26#039;t know how layers work, if you could help with that as well. Oh and I need to make the outlines darker to. I%26#039;ve seen how people use layers to just color stuff in but on the final picture you can%26#039;t see it
Photoshop 7.0 I need to make an outline/trace of a picture of mine for a t-shirt. Help how?
Haha. Okay, you want to make a real basic drawing of a pumpkin from that picture you made, right? There%26#039;s a bunch of ways, so I%26#039;ll pick what I would do:





Use the %26#039;marquee%26#039; tool that looks like a lasso (top left of the toolbar) to trace around the part of the image you want to select. Now you should see your pumpkin with a dotted line around the edge.





Copy/paste that part by doing Edit%26gt;%26gt;Copy, then Edit%26gt;%26gt;Paste. You just created a new layer that only has that pumpkin that you selected in it. Hide the other layer now by clicking on the eye next to the layer. There%26#039;s a %26#039;Layers%26#039; window on the right, if not go Window%26gt;%26gt;Layers.





In the menu bar at top of screen, go to (might be different in PS 7.0) Layers%26gt;%26gt;Layer style%26gt;%26gt;Stroke . This will put a outline around all of the edges of the layer. Make it thicker/thinner in the Stroke window (default is 3px i think). So if you erase one of the triangle eyes of the pumpkin on this layer, you%26#039;ll see that outline appear around the erased area. You can make straight line selections by clicking and holding on that lasso button in the toolbar and selecting the line marquee instead of the lasso marquee. To use this line marquee tool, click on one of the corners of the eye and then move the mouse to another corner of the eye and you%26#039;ll see it making a selection line connecting the 2. Then go to the next corner and then back to the first spot you clicked and it%26#039;ll select that area you just outlined.





Delete the eyes and nose and mouth this way. You should keep seeing Stroke outline appearing around these deleted areas. Once you delete the facial parts, you should see nothing but those Stroke outlines around the border of the pumpkin and around the eyes.





That%26#039;s one way to do it. Hope this helps.

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