Re: graphcis problems

Ed,

I'm pretty new at Photoshop, and HWG for that matter,
but a couple things...
-Did you try puting a book or something solid on top
of the image when you scanned it? I've been able to
flatten out things by weighing them down a bit.
-The "magic eraser tool" is great for making areas of
an image transparent. I opened your image up in
Photoshop 5.5 and had the background transparent in
just a few quick clicks. I used a tolerence of 20 in
the options pallet and it got all but a few spots
along some of the edges. A few more clicks cleaned
those up. Just remember transperancy only works in GIF
format.
-Some good tutorials can be found here...
http://www.graphicssoft.about.com/compute/graphicssoft/cs/photoshoptutorials/

Hopes this helps.

Rick


--- Ed Peddycoart <epeddycoart(at)cg2.com> wrote:
> I am trying to create a logo for a website.  I have
> an image I scanned in
> and I want to base my logo on this image.  You can
> see the image at
> http://www.celticblues.com/ahs84logo.html.
> 
> Here are my "problems"...As you can see from the
> image, the paper was curled
> a bit when I scanned it.  As much as I tried to
> flatten it, I could not.
> Also, I do not like the background color.  I would
> like to make the
> background transparent, but my skills with photo
> shop are very limited.  I
> have tried using the Image|Extract tool, but the
> results are not very
> pleasing.  I still end up with a significant number
> of pixels of background
> showing up and it looks bad.
> 
> Here are my questions:
> 
> 1.  Should I just try to recreate the logo from
> scratch?  If so, can anyone
> tell me what would be the closest font to the one
> used in the "A" of this
> image?  I have searched my fonts and can't find one
> very close.
> 
> 2.  How can I create the banner with "Arab High
> School" on it?  Is this a
> feature in photo shop, or paint shop?
> 
> 3.  Any recommendations for web graphics tools?
> 
> 4.  Any recommendations for websites/books/etc on
> web graphics fundamentals?
> 
> 5.  Any recommendations for websites/books/etc on
> how to use PhotoShop, or
> other tools?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ed
> 
> _______________________________________
> 
> Ed Peddycoart
> CG�, Inc.
> _______________________________________
> 
> 


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