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Sarah ... ... and welcome to the Village Did you make the selection using the Selection Brush Tool ?? ... although it takes longer I find that I get a better result using the lasso. Try this: Select the lasso tool (just the ordinary one) Set it to "Add to" (those little boxes up at the top of the screen ..hover your cursor above then and you will see the one I mean) Zoom in very close using the zoom tool (it looks like a...

Hi Jean, These instructions are for Windows. Open your My Pictures/Brushes folder and change the folder view to List so you just have a list of all the brush files. Resize the window so it takes up half of the screen and leave the window open. Now open your Presets/Brushes folder for PSE5 or PSE8 and also change the folder view to List and resize it. Arrange the two windows on the screen so you can compare the two lists. For each brush you...

Now how simple was that? I think they were using pse7. I tried it as they showed, keeping my original colored photo, and then the black and white side by side, and it was showing in the video that to change each seperate color to a lighter or darker tone of black and white just use the sliders, but as I am sliding say the blue slider, which is one of the colors in my photo, it is just changing the whole photo instead of darkening or lighting...

Okay, so I downloaded them and found where to load them, but once it asks for the location, I can't find it. Is there a place I should be looking and/or certain place I should be downloading them to?

I find it helpful when i think my item is transparent is to check it by putting a contrasting layer below the item. Then you i can catch a lot of little areas i missed erasing. Then i remove this layer before saving as a png.

Here is what I might try to do. I would make a selection of the blue sky with the rectangle selection tool and copy. Make a new layer and then paste the selection of the sky to the new layer. Then use the move tool and slide the sky down over the arm. Always many ways to do everything here in elements. Tina B

You have come quite far! Keep notching that belt! Some advice for the car; add a shadow beneath it. That will help to anchor it to the ground.

sara, If your layers are still available you can use the background eraser to erase the extra material. Adjust the brush size to get into the smaller areas and erase right up to the child. The alternative would have been for you to silhouette the subjects using a soft white brush. The soft brush would give you a soft edge which would help them blend better with the background. If you don't have the layers, sample the green background and...

I have tried all the suggestions, increasing the tolerance level etc, as well as experimenting endlessly myself, but I am unable to remove the rectangle around my image completely. There's no problem with the edges, or the sharpness of the image. But whatever I do there's always a clearly defined rectangle around my image, a slightly paler blue than the blue background in the word document I am inserting it onto. But least I no...

Dom13. I was so sad when no one had anything to say. Thanks so much for your reply.