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Nikon D3000
 04/18/2003 08:38:19 PM · #1
Besides DPChallenge I compete in a PSP tag contest weekly. I usually play around with different tubes and backgrounds to make a tag. But this weeks contest rules were really cool. It's an open entry this week where the PSP tag has to contain the following items, a bunny, yellow flower(s) and a child or children. I confess I took a few really bad photos of my little boy and tubed them reducing them to a very small size so the fact they were out of focus wasn't as obvious and then took another photo for the background and then lastly a bunny tube I had, to create this really different looking tag. Was wondering if anyone knows how to keep from getting the shadows and highlights when you use tubes over another photo? If you look at the two bottom corners you can see the highlights and shadows around the edging of the tubes.

//www.pbase.com/image/15611395

Canon EOS-20D
 04/19/2003 12:32:01 AM · #2
WTF are tubes and tags? :) This sounds like a foreign language. Some PSP thing I guess?
Canon EOS-1000D Rebel XS
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
 04/19/2003 12:41:27 AM · #3
I have no idea what "tubes and tags" are either. But the picture looks pretty good, and also like it was a lot of work to create!
Sony Alpha a55
Sony DT 11-18mm f/4.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 04/19/2003 06:55:40 AM · #4
lol...tubes and tags? WTF. I'm lost too!
Nikon D3000
 04/20/2003 06:54:42 PM · #5
Tags are a generic name given to graphic arts which are usually personalized or a saying added to them. Tubes are created by cutting something out of a photo or a work of art and saving it without any type of background so that it can be used later as a layer in a new tag.

I don't normally have any trouble using a tube but for some reason when I create a tube using a photo I have the problem of either a shadow around the edge or a halo showing up and I don't know how to fix it.

And yes it is PSP
Fujifilm X-T2
Fujifilm XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS
 04/21/2003 09:42:42 AM · #6
Hi, I don't know if this will help, but PSP 8 (it's out in Beta) has a "background eraser" function. In their demo it works great. I tried it, and it didn't work nearly as well for me, but ... who knows, maybe this could help you reduce the shadows?

~Ursula
Nikon D3000
 04/21/2003 09:44:34 AM · #7
Originally posted by uabresch:
Hi, I don't know if this will help, but PSP 8 (it's out in Beta) has a "background eraser" function. In their demo it works great. I tried it, and it didn't work nearly as well for me, but ... who knows, maybe this could help you reduce the shadows?

~Ursula


I didn't notice that function yet, but then I am bouncing between PSP 7 and 8. I haven't found everything yet on PSP 8. I will have to give it a try and see if it helps.
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