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William M. Clark 		 

USING COOKIE CUTTER


 
 
I have attempted many times; over 6 or 7 times to crop a photo into a heart shape using the cookie cutter tool in Adobe Photoshop Element 3 but so far have not been successful. I have folled all 6 steps in according to help menu. My results have always ended the same; that is the heart shape almost covers the entire photo
attached is a copy of the photo


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June 27, 2005

 
- Gregory LaGrange

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Gregory LaGrange's Gallery 		  You can do a heart shape with layer and layer mask.
Add a layer on top of the photo
Make a vertical elipse with the marquee on the new layer and fill with a color
Use the polygon lasso to slice it at an angle, then duplicate what's left and put the two pieces together to make a heart shape. Use the transform to rotate it and play with the height and width
Once you get that, magic wand to select the heart shape, then switch to the photo layer so that's active, then do inverse and cut so you'll have a heart shape of the photo.
Then you can delete the top layer.

You can play around with different elipse shapes and how you cut them, different ones make different heart shapes.


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June 27, 2005

 
- Gregory LaGrange

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Gregory LaGrange's Gallery 		  Actually you elipse dosen't have to be vertical.


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June 27, 2005

 

William M. Clark 		 
 
 
Thanks Gregory, anyway, I am not that familiar with layers techniques. I am trying to use an easier technique(according to Scott Kelby and Adobe Photoshop Element 3 help Menu).


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June 27, 2005

 

Melissa L. Zavadil 		  1. Bring up the pic you want to crop.


2. Go up to layers, hit duplicate layers. --- hit, OK


3. On your tool bar right under the "T" there is a tool it might say rectangle tool, right click on your mouse.


4. After you right click there should be a "Custom shape tool" -- hit that.


5. Now at the top of your screen, there is a new list of things, on the far left there are three squares hit the one that states "Fill Pixels"


6. Go back up to the tool bar at the top of the screen to find the word "Shape" Hit that. (Find the shape you like)


7. Back up at the top tool bar find the "Mode", Now down on the list hit clear. (You will not notice anything happening because you have another duplicate sheet right underneath) but, you just cut a hole in your photo. (If you did not like the placement of the heart then hit edit, step back)


8. Take your magic wand on your tool box. And hit inside where the heart was. (you should now see an outline of the heart)


9. On the VERY top of your screen hit the word "Select" hit inverse (This will select the exact opposite of what you just selected)


10. Now you can decide to pick up your paint brush (with a huge brush size) and paint any color on that selected area. I would choose white if you wanted to make a "real" cut out.

***or***(This does the same thing)

10. A. hit delete on your keyboard
B. Go to your layer box hit the little tiny eye on the bottom layer. (This closes the "eye" so you can not see that layer any more)

11. Now, you have the freedom of copying this cut out "layer" and pasting it on anything you would like. Have fun. Save this photo in PSD format so the layers do not flatten.


THIS IS NOT THAT HARD!! *** :O) :O)


If you have questions please email me!
I would be glad to help! :o)


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June 27, 2005

 

Melissa L. Zavadil 		  I am sorry step seven should have read like this:

7. Back up at the top tool bar find the "Mode", Now down on the list hit clear.

Now take your curser and create a heart on your picture,

(You will not notice anything happening because you have another duplicate sheet right underneath) but, you just cut a hole in your photo. (If you did not like the placement of the heart then hit edit, step back)


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June 27, 2005

 

William M. Clark 		  Thanks a great deal Melissa I will try this technique immediately and I will let you know what the results.


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June 28, 2005

 
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