Replacing Text

[viola]

I have PSP 9 and I can't figure out how to replace the text on the two attached JPEGs. Can any one help me? Thanks.

[dmp103]

Gee, I don't think you can on the second one, but it'd be a simple thing to re-create with the text you want. The first one, you could try clone painting out the "Friends" - or again, you might find it easier to just re-create something similar. The texture might be hard to re-create, but the bevelling seems to be fairly standard...

[Emma]

I agree, either use the clone tool or start from scratch. If you can contact the scrapper who made them, you might be able to talk her into sending you a blank one without the words.

You can only change text if it's on its own layer. Otherwise, you'll have to use the Clone Tool or start over.

It'll be great cloning practice for you! Let us know how it goes, and if you need any help/have questions

[Emma]

How's the project going? Did you get the Clone Tool working for you?

[tshirt]

I attempted to remove the gray text. Take a look. I used PS. I did some copy and pasting, some clone, some motion blur and some sharpening.

Matt








How's the project going? Did you get the Clone Tool working for you?

[Emma]

Look good, Matt. Did you use the 72dpi one she sent, or did she send you the print version? Did you use the Clone Tool?

[tshirt]

I downloaded the one that was in the post. It was @30 PPI at least that's what PS said it was. To work on it I increased it to 300 PPI. Did that in 3 steps. First to 100 then to 200 then to 300. After I uploaded it I did a side by side comparison of hers and mine. Hers was much sharper, mine much softer (blur). It bothered me all day at work. The only thing that came to mind was that my attemps to sharpen it did not work well due to the high PPI. I did all the editing at 300. Well I'm back home now and I decided to sharpen it again but this time I cranked it back down to 30 first. I think it looks much closer to the original now. I named this attemp with a "b".

Oh yeah I sharped it 2 more times and I see you can make it look even "harder" but that went way beyond the original so I placed both on the screen and I made it come as close as my eyes could tell.

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What the heck I combined them both in one image so you can better see the comparison. Mine is still a smidgen to hard. You could blur it just a tad more and only the originator would know the difference. Look at the file with the word BOTH in it's name for that one.
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First I use the Marquee and selected some good area in front of the "f" I use that and some area at the other end. I copied and pasted all the way across covering up the letters. Oh first I motion blur the small selected area then I pasted it. That made about 8-9 layers with those sections. I then merged those layers. I then flattened that onto the letter layer covering them up. I then did a little clone tooling to break up the horizontal line s abit. I see it could use so more breaking up but what the hey. It will be covered up with more letters anyway I guess. After clone I blurred it again but not the outer shadow part. I left that intact. Then lastly I sharpened it. The I brought it back down the 30 PPI then like I said I sharpened it again to get that "harder" look.

Matt







Look good, Matt. Did you use the 72dpi one she sent, or did she send you the print version? Did you use the Clone Tool?

[Emma]

it's pretty close to impossible to enlarge a low-res image to print quality. Step-interpolating as you did is the best way to go, but even sharpening doesn't produce a good image.
When digital scrapping first took off, there were no premade graphics because all the free stuff on the web was 72-dpi and printed horribly. Even clip-art had low-res images. Scrappers were making all their own print-quality graphics, so only computer-savvy people could scrap.
Now there are a lot of scrap resources, and anyone who can click and drag can make pages.

I think your cloning is very well done, however! You've demonstrated what a nice result that can give, and how she can alter her premade print graphics to suit her needs.

We're somewhere between high-end professional print output and monitor-based graphics, forging ahead and breaking ground :)

You're pretty good at this, would love to see you tackle a layout. Check out this gallery for some male inspiration
Matyi, featured in SS Digital Scrapping 2
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=3045
and ManScrapper
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=5597

Have fun, there's some good eye candy in there!

[tshirt]

Maybe I did a layout or 2 or 3 before. I just didn't know I was scappin' at the time. My dad died awhile back and I took the text from the eulogy and his portrait and a copy of the holy card and placed it all on a page real nice and had it printed out and framed for my grandma (his mom). It sits on the end table in their livingroom still. That was back with PS version 4.0.

My first copy of PS was V3.04. That must have been back around 1994 or 95. I've been messing with every version since. I don't have CS yet. I started a help group at Yahoo back in 1999. It may have been called Onelist then called Egroups and now Yahoo. Check it out if you like. We always need persons to answer qeustions.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/photoshop-beginners/

I guess I have been doing layouts all along not on paper but on Tshirts. See I do some screen and sign printing so arranging objects and choosing the right fonts and sizes and colors have been part of me since 97.


Thanks for the compliment,

Matt





You're pretty good at this, would love to see you tackle a layout. Check out this gallery for some male inspiration
Matyi, featured in SS Digital Scrapping 2
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=3045
and ManScrapper
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=5597

Have fun, there's some good eye candy in there![/QUOTE]