RE: photoshop 5.0 and text...

Lonna,

If you're using Photoshop, you can select the black text by doing
Select\Color Range - then delete.  You might have to expand the selection
area by 1 pixel (Select\Modify\Expand) to include the anti-aliased shading
around the character, but it's usually an effective way to separate the text
from a background.  Once separated, you may be able to use a cut and paste
method to restore the background image, or try using the rubber stamp.  If
it's an irregular pattern, try the lasso tool to capture an area of the
background and feather it by 2 or 3 pixels.  Then blend the pattern into
your background.

If you have no luck, I'd be glad to look at the graphic for you

Shay

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of Lonna Poland
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 9:39 AM
To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
Subject: Re: photoshop 5.0 and text...


With all this talk about text, it has brought another question to mind.  I
have a beautiful calendar with pastel flowers of various kinds in the
background.  This background will make a great wallpaper, but I can't figure
out how to get the black text which makes a year long calendar out of the
foreground, and still leave the flowered background.  Is this even possible?
I don't think the magnetic lasso or path tool would do it, this foreground
pattern is very complex, as it's black text for all 12 months in calendar
format.  Is there some way to "lift" the black text away from the
background?

Thanks in advance for tips on this....
Lonna

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