Photoshop....help!

[Sevion]

With photoshop how do you make text look like part of the picture like make it stand out but share the smae lighing and colors as the surrounding picture with out just making words and how can i make cool light affects...

[Blacksmith]

I had a problem with this. Basically "Blending Options" are your friend friend. Usually, depending on the color, Overlay, Hard light, or soft light works really well. I usually also go with Drop Shadow, Outer and Inner glow. If you're using PS8 (CS), click the right side of the blinding mode (For example, outer glow), and a color should come up. Click on that and pick the color you want for the glow. Also positioning the text is very important.

[Sevion]

yeah that worked a littled better. Also if two pictures have different back grounds how do you get them to match so it can be a sig with multiple pictures?

[Dante]

What you need to do there, my friend, is to extract the image you want, from its background. There are multiple ways of doing this; The Magic Wand can be one, Polygonal lasso, and there the extraction filter. How you do it, you take the pictures you want, copy and paste them into the sig background, then take away the bits you dont needs using these tools. you can use eraser to "erase" the bits you dont want, polygonal lasso to select the bits and the delete/move whatever. Magic wands seem to be a favorite, but only when the part you dont want is a solid colour.

If you understood that then there's some tips for you.

[Sevion]

oh yes that worked quite well ty!!

[Double U]

I prefer to use the magnetic lasso rather than the polygonal lasso.
Especially for using images apart from their background.

[Sevion]

when i use the magic wand the image looks un evenly cut out and some times the image might have similar colors to the back ground