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Originally Posted by *~G~*
thanks dee that new one looks sweet. i'm going to have to mess around with the blending and coloring some more...theres just so much stuff you can do on there. can you tell me how to make the image rectangle, and thanks for all the tips.
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First, you want to set the background image to the size you want BEFORE you beging designing anything. Then, I took the bay bridge image used the "Rectangular Marquee Tool" and chose the entire image. Then you press and hold the "CTRL" key on your keyboard, clicked and held on the bridge image and dragged it over to my preset 500 x 200 rectangle layer. Once this is done, you'll notice that the bridge image is larger than your 500 x 200 rectangle layer. To size it down, click Edit > Transform > Scale. then at the top of the screen, click the little chain lick icon. Now, if you click and drag on one of the CORNERS of the selected image, you'll notice that the entire dimention of the image changes (height and length) equally. By cliking that "chain link" icon, you're telling photoshop to keep the original size RATIO the same while you increase or decrease the OVERALL size. If you don't click that little icon, you'll end up having distorted images after resizing( your original sig suffered from that not pressing that chain link or "maintain aspect ratio" icon)
Notice how the players seem elongated(tall)
While you are resizing that bridge image, consider NOT including the ENTIRE bridge scene. Try keeping the bridge image slightly larger than your underneath rectangle image because all you want to really capture out of that bridge is mostly the towers and the city skyline. Once you've figured what size you want, click Enter. Next, we are going to merger that bridge layer and the rectangle layer to make a single layer. Either press CTRL+E (to mrege the selected layer down to the layer underneath it) or you can flatten it by clicking Layer > Flatten Image(this will flatten ALL layers into one image. Normally we wouldn't flatten our project if it had more that two layers that we still wanted to work on. But since we have only two at this point, it won't hurt us.) Now you have your new 500 x 200 pixel rectagluar compliant background that's now ready for some more iamge/object additions!
04-10-2005, 04:52 PM
Cheers to billwilliams70 for the sig 
so no i dont own it..i d/l from this website so it doesnt expire
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