Many of you know how to do this, but some people that are new to this site, GP4 and Photoshop might need some help to create their own mods.
First of all, for creating a transparent background you don't need: praying to God for help, it's not a matter of luck, it's not the computer's fault and you don't need s*@#loads of CocaCola to stay awake at night and finish the job. No, no - the night is for sleeping... or maybe for browsing porn, don't know that quite sure.
What you need:
1. Adobe PS CS3 or higher -even a portable version would do it.
2. Knowing the resolution of your picture.
3. A little bit of attention.
4. And for every step you skip, in this tutorial, Vettel will win another race -so don't mess up with that.
Enough with the bla, bla, bla:
BEFOREHow on Earth do you clear backgrounds? Well it's actually pretty easy and there are several methods. Easiest one is to clear it in
MS Paint. Yeap! You've heard it. If you don't know much about PS, MS Paint is a great tool for beginners.
Let's use an example:I want to edit my picture and clear the background. Open the picture with MS Paint. It should look like this.
Step 1. Chose the
Line tool
Step 2. Chose
Line thicknessStep 3. Chose
Line colour (I advise to use a different colour than you already have. For example:
pink, strident greens, cyan, etc.)
The same thing can be done in Photoshop by using the Magic Eraser tool (You'll pretty much need it afterwards to clean your white MS Paint background). We'll check that method later. Clear the background until you have only Senna and white (or your custom selected colour) around him. DON'T SAVE IT. It should now look like this:Next!
Select the picture by using
ctrl+a or from the
Edit menu, and press
ctrl+c (copy).
Open
Photoshop and choose
File -> New. You should have a white picture there. Now click paste from the
Edit Menu or
ctrl+v. You are now here:
Right click on your picture and then choose
DeselectYou are now here:
Step 1. Click on the
Eraser button and expand by right clicking the icon.
Step 2. Choose
Magic Eraser (last option).
Step 3. Select
Tolerance and adjust to a number. Usually tolerances for uniform backgrounds are set around
4 or
8. I won't go that deep into tolerances in this tutorial. Make sure that
Contiguous is ticked (it usually is by default). Now you can click the white background and it has suddenly disappeared. Congratulations
. You're awesome!
You are now here. Don't mind the chequered background. That is Photoshop's way to tell that your background is now transparent:
Note: You can also clear the background with Magic Eraser without going through MS Paint. Just play around with tolerances and
watch out not to chop your picture. If you're a beginner, start with MS Paint until you get some experience.
Let's move on to the important part!NOTE:My picture is already shrinked to the size I wanted and I have already cleared my background. That's why the background appears like a chess board. In Photoshop
white is just another background.
STEP I1. Adjust the zoom size of your picture.
2.
Sharpen your image if you need to.
3. Clear rebel pixels using that tool combined with an appropriate zoom in.
STEP II4. Click on
Load Selection.
5. Leave them like that.
STEP III6. Notice that dotted line appear around the car. All outside pixels were selected.
7. Click on
Save Selection.
STEP IV8. Fill in that box with a name: I use
alpha 1 because it's an alpha layer. You can enter whatever name you want.
9. Click
OK.
STEP V10. Click on
CHANNELS.
11. Noticed that our
alpha 1 has appeared there? Click on that box.
STEP VI12. After you clicked that , notice a reddish color appear around your car. Don't you worry: EVERY TIME YOU SAVE A FILE WITH TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE THAT. Click on
Save As.
STEP VII13. Select
TGA.
14. Click
Save.
STEP VIII15. Select
32 bits/pixel.
16. Click
OK.
You're done. Go to GPI browser and test you TGA. If it gives you an error: check if your file isn't to big or has the right amount of pixels. If you can't spot the problem, redo the job from
STEP I. Just a final note: grid cars have an 200X50p resolution. Enjoy!
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