Help!!

[vintage]

Hi I am a new user of photo shop elements 4.0 I have played around a little with 2.0 As you all can see I am very limited with what I know and how to do most things. What I would like to do is to cut certain objects or people from a picture. I have looked forever and cannot figure out how to do this in either of the versions I have. Sorry to be so dumb but is there a way to do this and can someone tell me how?

thanks
Sue :cry:

[Wendy]

hi Sue ...

... and welcome to the forum :)

Now I'm not quite sure if you mean that you want to select someone from an image and put them into another image or if you have an image and you want to take one of the people out of it and make the image look as though they were never there ...?

If its the first one then:

You need to use one of the selection tools (say the lasso) to carefully go round the outline of the person and once you have done that you just need to do Edit>Copy then Edit>Paste and there you have them on their own layer. If you then want to put them into another image you just need to do Edit>Paste in the new image.

If its the second one then:

Use the clone tool and clone over the person ... choose an area of the background that is suitable to cover them and clone them away :)

Hope this helps ...

Wendy

[vintage]

Thanks Wendy

I will try this... I hate to be so dumb.... :lol:

[Wendy]

Sue ...

... You are not dumb !!

We all tend to feel this way when we start using Elements ... ask as many questions as you like. It really is no problem to talk you through things .. so if you get stuck just ask again :)

... and most of all don't worry about it !! ... you will get there :)

Wendy

[GaryK]

Hi Sue

Welcome to the forums.

As Wendy said... ask away. We all started not knowing things and we all learn new things all the time. There is usually someone around to help and responses are normally quick. We are all just users like yourself.. just some have been using longer. :lol:

[vintage]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I am sure you people are a wealth of information.

Sue :)

[Wendy]

Sue ...

We are just glad to help ... :)


Wendy

[G. OReilly]

Wendy or Gary: need your help ! I have some pictures that I would like to put a frame around them...as if they were popping out of the frame ...can this be done in PSE 3 and if so how?
Thanks
George :D

[Wendy]

Hi George ...

There is a tut on this effect in the subscriber area. Its under Videos and its dated the 26th August ...

Its a really good one :) ... when you have done it do let us see the result!

Wendy

[G. OReilly]

:P :P :P Thanks Wendy for the reply..Boy that was fast ! See Vintage (Sue) just ask a question and the answer will soon follow.
Regards
George

[G. OReilly]

Wendy I went to the video section...Is this the one that Dave Cross uses called Borders? If so I do not see a date as per your note Aug 26? Regards George :roll:

[Wendy]

Hi George ...

Its called Border Breakout ... go to the Subscriber area scroll down and you will see Vidoes on the left hand side. Click on that then the screen will show two rows of Videos ...

Border breakout is on the left hand side ... quite a way down and has a date 26th August.

Hope you find it this time :)


Wendy

[G. OReilly]

:D :D Wendy: Found it ! Thanks again for your help....now just going to try it as see what happens .When I do I will post it in my gallery.
George
:wink:

[Wendy]

George ...

Glad you found it this time ... and look forward to seeing you breakout image :)

Wendy

[GaryK]

George

It is a great and fun effect..we look forward to your post.

[rookie]

Welcome to the forums! Enjoy your stay with us! :D