I'm making a new campaign, so I need a custom splash screen. The only problem, I don't know an easy way to cut the "starcraft" title from the original one and paste it onto my new picture. In the past, I've just sat there and manually traced around the words and then cut it out, but that takes so long, and I really don't feel like doing it. So my question is, what's an easy way to cut out the words from the splash screen and pasting it onto another picture?

Hrrm. If you mean the one with the kerrigan picture on it, no. Do either magnetic or angular lasso.

Do you want the green background? It's really easy to just remove the people with heal.

What's heal?

If you've removed the people like that, though, it's probably possible to remove all the green somehow. I'm not experienced enough to tell you how, though. Probably easier to cut it out; most of it is straight lines anyway.

If you drop this over a black background, it will look good (I just did black to alpha).

This one I use deleted all the green after I got rid of the black.


Heal is what GIMP has had for 4 years and Photoshop is just now getting.

Oh my god rockz I'm in love with you. That second one is just what I needed! So wait, how'd you do it? You just took away the background and used the heal option?

so using the heal function, I took away the faces, but that's not very important. It was only important if you wanted to have the green. In GIMP (photoshop is too expensive to use legally, and gimp does everything I'll ever need), you can right click on an area, and go to layer->transparency->color to alpha. If you choose black, it gets rid of most of the screen, then you can use the select by color or fuzzy select to get rid of the green that remains. If you look carefully at the 2nd image, the stars are still there, so you may want to get rid of them as well. I suggest you fuzzy select the alpha channel, then invert the selection (to help you see where it is) and erase any stars/colors you don't want.

Heh, it actually looks pretty good even with this default gray background...

Hm, I would use Gimp, but for some reason, whenever I load it, it ALWAYS gets frozen when it's loading the fonts. I've even re-installed it, but it still keeps happening.

... what?

The heal tool has been in photoshop for a very long time and I never update. I've been using CS2 since it came out (not they are working on CS5 atm) and it has the heal tool. Maybe it's called "heal" on gimp but their is a "healing tool", "Healing spot brush", and "Patch tool".

Just saying bro.

Personally, I'd use the pen tool to make a selection, then feather it and remove the crap in behind. Also, I think his heal tool works differently. BTW Dem0n, you could always just use mine...

http://www.staredit.net/topic/10669/

:'(