Hey all.. I wrote my first photoshop tutorial. I wrote it for another forums... and even though it isn't for anything that complicated or something that I don't think would interest many on these boards Even though.. I'm still gonna post it.. lol... enjoy. You can read the original at: http://www.orlandoforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2511
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Hey all. Today I was looking at some pics on cardomain and other sites. And as much as I like a lot of the cars, one of my pet peeves is when a car has it's license plate edited out poorly. Not because I want to know the plate number (frankly, I could care less about the number), but because most of the time, it is done so poorly, it actually detracts from the quality of the picture. Look at what I mean:
With that being said, I'm writing this tutorial on how to cleanly edit out license plate numbers so it doesn't detract. I am doing this tutorial on Photoshop 7 running in Windows XP Pro. For this I am going to edit 2 different pictures of cars with exposed license plates I've found on the internet.
Step 1- Open Photoshop
Step 2- Open the Image file
Step 3- Using the Eyedropper tool, select the background color of the plate.
Step 4- Using the Polygonal Lasso tool, select the numbers on the plate. If it is like a California or a New York plate, you will only have to do this once. If it is a Florida plate or another with a graphic in the middle, select the first 3 numbers, then hold down the shift key and select the other 3 numbers.
the original post starts here:
Hey all. Today I was looking at some pics on cardomain and other sites. And as much as I like a lot of the cars, one of my pet peeves is when a car has it's license plate edited out poorly. Not because I want to know the plate number (frankly, I could care less about the number), but because most of the time, it is done so poorly, it actually detracts from the quality of the picture. Look at what I mean:
With that being said, I'm writing this tutorial on how to cleanly edit out license plate numbers so it doesn't detract. I am doing this tutorial on Photoshop 7 running in Windows XP Pro. For this I am going to edit 2 different pictures of cars with exposed license plates I've found on the internet.
Step 1- Open Photoshop
Step 2- Open the Image file
Step 3- Using the Eyedropper tool, select the background color of the plate.
Step 4- Using the Polygonal Lasso tool, select the numbers on the plate. If it is like a California or a New York plate, you will only have to do this once. If it is a Florida plate or another with a graphic in the middle, select the first 3 numbers, then hold down the shift key and select the other 3 numbers.
