[Bowman]

I'm making a skin for our clan got the air brush , magic wand and stuff figured out..What I need help with is I want to cut our logo out with magic wand and paste it to the back of the shirt, I have it cut out nicely and try to paste is and the Yellow/gold back ground that was behind the logo("it's circular") pastes along with it.also when I resize it the picture it gets real chunky..I've seen other skins with pictures pasted in and they look fine it looks like the were resized to keep the same clarity..I have tried making the shirt very large and then pasting the logo on but I still get the yellow background and although the clarity is a little better is seem there should be a better way to cut it out and paste it on the size I want it to be on the shirt
Thanks for your help

[Pyronophy]

What I would do is...Create a new image, any size you want as long as its as big as the size of the image...you should see this little grid thingy on the image, like a white and gray grid, thats the transparency, then paste the logo in there, then go around the logo and delete the unwanted background color, when your done, just use the rectangular selector and when you paste the image elsewhere, it wont show the background

[Slyk]

OK...not too difficult to do.

1. You don't always need to 'cut' out the image you want to paste. I usually select a hot pink color (or any color NOT in the current image, bright obnoxious ones work best) from the palette then 'paint' the parts of the image that I DO NOT want with that color. When selecting this pink color, I ALWAYS select it with the RIGHT mouse button, making it my secondary color. If you're using the eyedropper to pick colors, the left mouse button click in the palette makes that color the top/primary color and the right button makes the palette click color the bottom/secondary. Follow?

2. After filling/painting the areas you don't want, simply copy the ENTIRE image.

3. Next, select/activate the image to paste INTO...

4. Simply use the 'paste as transparent image' command or SHIFT+CONTROL+E. This will paste your image WITHOUT the pink background into the other image.

5. BEFORE you click anything you will have your pasted image with little dashed lines running around it. You can resize just THIS image and not the whole thing if you want or need to fit it better. Be careful with the resizing tool. If you get too many jaggies you can use the blur/soften tools under 'image'. This can improve your image alot, especially after resizing.

Hope this helps. I've done thousands of images using this method for everything from Nascar Racing to Thief to MOHAA. Always works, justs takes practice and time to learn all the tools. IMO, PSP is the best and easiest program for light to moderately heavy editing. PhotoShop is amazing, but generally too expensive and with a TON of stuff most game modders don't/won't need for basic skinning.

Any questions, email me here: ditt44@paonline.com

[Jojimbo]

easy...
clone the image across
using the clone brush