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I need your help with picture


theperfectdrug

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Hi
I'm interested how to make picture like the one I've attached below from simple pic?
are there any tutorials about this effect on the web?
Thx
 
Hi there, welcome to the community. Hope you enjoy your stay. [excited]

That's pretty simple to create actually.
It's just a sillouette.

Open a photo with a group of people in it; similar to the example you posted.
Zoom into each person one-at-a-time, and using the Polygon Selection tool, trace a selection around them. Since it's for a sillouette, the trace doesn't have to be perfect.
When you have the first person traced with a selection, press Ctrl+J. That copies them to their own layer. Repeat this for each person you want to use from the photo.

Once you have your group a people extracted onto their own layers, turn off the layer of the original photo.
Fill the background of your document with whatever colour you want to use.
Switch your Foreground colour to black.
On each layer of the people you extracted, press ALT+SHIFT+Delete. That will fill each person's shape with black.
Once each person is filled with black, connect all of the people layers by clicking in the small square to the right of their 'eye' icons, on each layer. When all those layers are linked together, press Ctrl+E to merge them onto one layer.
Now simply lower the Opacity for that layer until the sillouette is the desired shade of the background colour.

Any questions, just ask. [honesty]
 
Welcome to the board!

Looks like Mark got to you first. Mark man, your so fast!

Sanby
 
Sanby what are YOU doing up at this hour? Don't you have school today?

Oh but wait... was it 7am when you posted? Your reply is stamped 4am here. Must be the 3hr dif between us. ;)
 
Welcome aboard theperfectdrug! :) You're sure to find lots of great help around here... and I can see that you already have! Enjoy! :D

Mark: Sanby what are YOU doing up at this hour? Don't you have school today?

Oh but wait... was it 7am when you posted? Your reply is stamped 4am here. Must be the 3hr dif between us.
The better question might be "What are you doing up at 4A Mark? [confused]
 
hahaha ya tooshay i suppose huh. ;\

But i've been working days with my bro the last couple weeks, and i then have to take care of all my comp stuff after dinner each day. Kinda keeps me up into the wee hours. Not that i don't normally do that anywho. hehe [oops] [honesty]
 

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