Arrrrghhh how hard can it be?!!!

17 Mar 2005

All I want is a photo editing programe where I can press a button, click on a picture and have it select an area so I can paste it onto another, like the lasso option in Photoshop. I don`t want it taking half the bloody background colour, and ignore the obvious head, I don`t want a load of daft lines appearing which I have no clue what to do with, and most of all, I don`t want the bloody thing selecting the entire picture when I select cut. As for that bloody masking brush WTF?!! banghead

Forget the freehand option, I`d be better off printing the damn pictures, cutting the bits out with scissors, and scanning the buggers (if I had the equipment). I have a demo of Photoshop, but can`t save the picture, meaning I have to use a screen capture and crop it in MS paint, but surely there is a free option online which has an lasso option which is as intelligent and easy to use as Photoshop?
Help!
Venusxxx

17 Mar 2005

Have no idea what you're on about but while we're on the topic (so it's not strictly a hijack) can I ask ... how do you change a .art pic into a jpg/jpeg????
I have photoshop but beyond cropping and resizing, I don't use it cos I'm thick.

17 Mar 2005

Quote by Scandal
Where does the .art file extension come from?

I thnk its an AOL picture file, but could be wrong
another way to save them, is right click on the picture, and then paste into MS paint / Photoshop, and save as a JPEG

17 Mar 2005

Basically, it's pics I've saved from websites. (i'm google image-crazy!!). You are gonna have to give me step-by-step techie-talking-to-total-idiot instructions.
If you can be bothered.
Ta muchly x

17 Mar 2005

Quote by Marya (that annoyingly frustrating bit of fluff from Teesside)

Does Dave_Notts know this???
And will Alex_Female still be your mate when she finds out??? rotflmao

Steve

17 Mar 2005

If you have a printer/scanner.......there is a disk with it that lets you do all those things.
mine is a lexmark and that works great......my old printer was an epson and that worked just as well smile

17 Mar 2005

Do you have a pair of scissors that you can leave on top of a magazine and they cut out a picture ? Truth is computers are wonderful things , but they cant do everything ! If you want a decent cut out you have to do it patiently by hand , thats why computer graphics operators get paid , cos they have to concentrate now and then :-) The cut out tool you want doesnt exist , but we just know you have the craft and artistic temperament to do it . xxx

17 Mar 2005

Adobe did a better job of defining than any of them, or at least it seemed to!
I have artistic temperament?! :shock: rotflmao

Thanks everyone, I`ve had loads of PMs smile

Venusxxx

17 Mar 2005

Quote by steveg_nw

Does Dave_Notts know this???
And will Alex_Female still be your mate when she finds out??? rotflmao

Steve

Steve ... I always considered you to be a mate. Take that any way you like :giggle:

17 Mar 2005

Quote by VenusnMars
Thanks everyone, I`ve had loads of PMs

Bet I've had bloody more!! mad

:x :x :x

17 Mar 2005

Quote by Sgt Bilko
Thanks everyone, I`ve had loads of PMs

Bet I've had bloody more!! mad

:x :x :x
'bout time you responded to 'em then. :x

17 Mar 2005

I'd like to offer my HUGE apologies to Venus for hijacking her thread! Sorry!!!
Thanks to everyone who gave me their advice, especially this PM:

step by step is also a crapy sitcom with Patrick Duffy ffrom Dallas lol
Anyway... step one. Open up photoshop, or MS paint etc
Step 2. Right click on the pic you want saving. This saves it to the clipboard on your computer
Step 3. in MS paint or photoshop, go to "edit" (pull down menu) then click on "paste" or "paste as a new image"
Step 4. Go to "file" then "save as". You will get a box apearing, allowing you to choose a file name, where to save it to, and also the extension of the file. (Bitmap, art file, or JPEG, etc. This may be a pull down menu too, under "file type".
Step 5. Stop using google image search.... It'll make you go blind
Step 6. Go outside, take a deep breath (hold your top over your mouth if its too polluted) and realise how pointless life on the internet really is
Step 7. Have pity for us for who it is too late... Those who resort to sending PM's instead of actually speaking to someone
Step 8. Steal a car, and leave it at your local police station, claiming that it was them that stole it in the first place
Step 9. Convince yourself that "All property is theft" and throw your belonging off Whitby cliffs
Step 10. Hold a chicken in the air, and stick a deckchair up your nose
And there you go.. perfect JPEGS, a criminal record, no clothes, and a really painful nose..

Lovin' it

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