help with background picture

[magnetos]

ok guys i need some helps
i have this disney pirate character with a white bacground
now i wan to put a background behind the pirate
dont know, like a forrest or some tropical island already made photograph

but i dont know how to do it i am using paintshop pro 7 but i guess
the tecnich should be the same in photoshop too

help me guys

ps
obviously this is just for educational and self learning purposes

[bk9ine]

Im not the best at explaining things but I will give this a go.
I'll be explaining how its done in photoshop but it should be the same in PSP.
1. Open up your disney character and the photo you want to use as a BG.
2. Use the magic wand tool and click on the white area in your disney picture, make sure anti-aliasied is turned on and set the tolerance to about 30. It should have selected all of the white area now delete it.
3. Goto you BG image select>all and copy.
4. Back into your original disney picture and paste onto a new layer.

Now all you should have to do is arange the layers so that your disney picture is on top of the BG.

Hope this may help.

[magnetos]

Originally posted by bk9ine
Im not the best at explaining things but I will give this a go.
I'll be explaining how its done in photoshop but it should be the same in PSP.
1. Open up your disney character and the photo you want to use as a BG.
2. Use the magic wand tool and click on the white area in your disney picture, make sure anti-aliasied is turned on and set the tolerance to about 30. It should have selected all of the white area now delete it.
3. Goto you BG image select>all and copy.
4. Back into your original disney picture and paste onto a new layer.

Now all you should have to do is arange the layers so that your disney picture is on top of the BG.

Hope this may help.

thanks bk9ine i tried that but for some reason i cant make it work
if first of all i can select the all white area because the picture is too reaches over the top so i have to do it piece by piece

still when i delete it i got a yellow background
and when i paste it the background over it just doesnt work right i must be missing something

well i ll do a search on the web maybe ill find something thanks for your time bk

[hooligan2001]

i would just delete the white area. Make it a transparent background. Add a layer underneath the pirate image and then place the background their But that for photoshop dunno about paint shop pro.

Hope that Helps

chow

[magnetos]

Originally posted by hooligan2001
i would just delete the white area. Make it a transparent background. Add a layer underneath the pirate image and then place the background their But that for photoshop dunno about paint shop pro.

Hope that Helps

chow

thanks guys i think i figure it out
it was quite simple all i have to do is to start e new image and select background color to transparent that's it
jee where is my head ?

first attempt check it out