pop out style

[Paul]

I have a image its cut out cruedly i know, i want to make the lighter bottom bit transparent and stand out away from main image, how do i do it please? Not have a white background when i post it, does that make sense?

[dv8_fx]

You mean like this....

[Paul]

Yeah so that if it was posted anywhere, the hands and bottom half would be the only things visable NOT the chequer board or white area.

[dv8_fx]

lol.... that was the checkerboard blank background of PS.

I assume, based on what you said, that you've cut out the girl and on a layer..... delete your background (CTRL+A to select the contents of the layer - hit delete)...... select the gradient tool.... Go to Edit Gradient .... select foreground to Transparent gradient. Make sure you've set you foreground to black....



Create the gradient on the background layer... to ensure the gradient is at a 90 degree angle, click on her chin (Don't let go) hold down the SHIFT KEY and drag down to about the level of her left thumb and release. There's the black gradient with a transparent bottom half.

Here... she's ready for you.... lol..... but I don't think I cut her clean from your image......



If your not happy with it, you have to repeat everything from deleting the background to creating the gradient till you get the look you want.

When done, save directly as a .png (Don't flatten the image or the empty space will be replaced with white...

Hope this helps.


PS... if you want to do a "clean cut" selection of the girl, here's a quick tute... Help cutting out an image...

[Paul]

Thanks for that mate.

I would like to do a stand out siggy with this image or simular ones, what i mean is have the arms outside the main frame of the siggy, so it looks like shes crawling out of the siggy, i hope you understand my crappy ask lol?