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How to make a quick transparent image for your website using Photoshop – A quick How-To for beginners
Mar 13th
Hey Kiddies,
Commodore 64 here with a quick how-to for Photoshop. Have you ever downloaded an image you’d like to use on your website but it was sandwiched on top of some ghastly color which totally doesn’t fit with your “flow”? Well here is a quick, no-frills, way to a transparent image that you can set to a background of your choosing.
First we start with simple image of a leaf:
Double click the “Background” and then hit enter when the dialog pops up. You should now have a transparency capable layer which is ready to have it’s fat trimmed, the layer name should change from “Background” to “Layer 0″:
We then take out our trusty magic wand tool and select the white around the leaf by clicking the white part around the leaf. In this cased I’ve used a tolerance of 80 to produce a decent result. You can play around with the tolerance depending on the image you choose to work with to get the selection border where you need it. In this case, our subject image has a dark shadow. Our tolerance of 80 has allowed the selection form to come in closer to the leaf, eliminating most of the shadow from the inside of the selection border as shown in the following image:
Hit delete to produce the following:
Hit the save button, name your file and give it a home. That’s It. Now this isn’t the most professional or precise way of doing this, but if you need a quick easy design flow control with image backgrounds, this is the 5-step, 5-minute move to get you on your way.
Enjoy!
Commodore64 (The one you used to play Bruce Lee on)
Why you should have a server in your house. The children’s book.
Dec 15th
I got a message from Kevin Rose via Pownce a little while back and it was a link to a series of pictures created to look like a children’s book. More specifically a book explaining how babies are made. But get this twist it was turned into an ad for Windows Home Server!
That’s right I said a Children’s book explaining the importance of a Home Server. But I almost pissed myself reading it. No matter how much I hate Digg for their evil ways I love Kevin’s sense of humor!
Go check out this whole thing over yonder…
Apparently I love my family because we have several home servers :) Does anyone know it’s real origins?
EDIT: The guys at The Gizmodo reported on this way back when… Check it out. But it’s still flucking funny!
The Ultimate Guys Tool! I just had to post this one..All you need is this couch, and some camouflage to match
Sep 20th
This guy’s got the right idea, I hope everyone gets the same laugh out of this one that I got, I mean c’mon, this can’t all be about computers! This is a solution to a common problem for any male, married computer geek. Just get a laptop sleeve to match!
Check out the solution we found from WallStreetJackass.com.
A practical, readily available solution to most nagging housework problems…
Peace
Commodore64 (The one you used to play Bruce Lee on)
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