Help with Photoshop

[Eireann]

I'm doing a project on Photoshop, and I have an image with certain components that I want to shrink. More precisely, I want to remove them from the current image complete, then reinsert them after shrinking them. How do I do it?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Without seeing your picture, I'm not sure what the best course of action is, but if it's a photo, here's one possible solution.

Simply make a second file and isolate the object with no background on it. Just make a floating object of it. You will have to tweak the edges of the object to make them smooth.

Then go back to a saved copy of the original (never mess around with your original file) and completely remove the object from it. Again, without seeing the photo it's hard to judge which tool would work best, but you could use the clone tool to fill in the background, the patch tool, the bandaid tool, whichever fills in your background the best.

Now simply copy and paste the object back onto your picture. Keep it on a separate layer.

"Transform" the layer to resize it to the size you need.

BTW, there are free tutorials on lydia.com. I don't know if that particular task is on there, but you might find it helpful to look at. Got some fun and handy stuff on there.

[TheMike]

check this out... http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/6-t...ible-patterns/

[Eireann]

I'm not having any luck with copy and paste. In Word? No problem. Photoshop? I have no idea.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

It's frustrating to me not being able to see what you are doing.

If you are trying to copy and past the entire layer, hit "Crtl a" (that will put marching ants all around the entire layer.

Hit "ctrl c" (that's copy) and then put the cursor where you want to copy to. Then "ctrl v" (paste)

You can use to lasso to isolate just the area you want to copy, if you would rather do that. Use the lasso, then copy and paste as in the above directions.

In Photoshop, you have to make sure the layer you are wanting to copy is the one activated, if you have more than one layer.

[Eireann]

Okay, did it.

What a pain in the ass - I had one image to put in several areas in the final screen. I cropped the image and saved it separately. I copied it to the other image. I resized and moved it.

I did this about twenty times. Paste, resize, move, save, paste... You get the idea.

And I'm not done. But I'm a lot closer!

Thanks!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

You're going to hate me at this point.

Next time you have multiples of the same thing you want to resize, drop them all onto separate layers. Then go over into your "layers' palette, make a folder, and drop all those identical layers into the folder.

Now transform the folder.

Everything in the folder will be transformed at the same time.

[Eireann]

Don't worry, I don't hate you.

I couldn't size everything to be exactly the same size - some of them, yes, but not all. But it's a good thing to know, for the future!