Photoshop Skinning Tutorials.

**Halie Satanus** · May 06, 2013, 03:33 PM

I tended to pull a marquee (box) around the parts I wanted to copy and just drag them across from one to the other using the move tool.

**Hoplite of Ilis** · February 17, 2014, 12:55 PM

Hi again. I'm trying to cut round a shield from it's background, know what I mean? Thing is I cannot re-shape it when I transfer it onto another texture, and if I transfer it as a whole, it's not a round object but a square one. you know how shields come in large number in one screenshot. How can I cut a round one out and manipulate it so as to replace another shield on a separate texture? Thanks (as always).

**Halie Satanus** · February 17, 2014, 01:32 PM

If I understand you right..

Make a blank layer on top of the shield and then size the paint brush to the size of the shield and fill in a dot on top. Select the dot. That gives you a marquee the correct size of the shield which you can now move..

Or use the magic wand to get rid of the background..

**Ishan** · February 17, 2014, 01:44 PM

Yeah much easier with magic wand and you can hold shift to cut some unwanted selection, so that it perfectly fits on the desired area. More easier if the background is comprised of singular RGB or similar RGB values.

**Hoplite of Ilis** · February 18, 2014, 02:29 AM

Originally Posted by Ishan

Yeah much easier with magic wand and you can hold shift to cut some unwanted selection, so that it perfectly fits on the desired area. More easier if the background is comprised of singular RGB or similar RGB values.

Doesn't seem I can move the magic wand freely

. I also don't know what RGB values are.

**Hoplite of Ilis** · February 18, 2014, 03:21 AM

Originally Posted by Halie Satanus

If I understand you right..

Make a blank layer on top of the shield and then size the paint brush to the size of the shield and fill in a dot on top. Select the dot. That gives you a marquee the correct size of the shield which you can now move..

Or use the magic wand to get rid of the background..

Well, I just drag my shield image and drop it onto a photoshop open texture, and I can resize it. It's those edges that get in the way.

**Halie Satanus** · February 18, 2014, 05:48 AM

RGB values are the 'Red, Blue, Green' levels that make up the colour.

Not sure what you mean by edges? But you can go to select/modify/contract - expand to get the marquee to fit better. For this kind of work it'll probably be 2 or 3 pixels either way..

**Hoplite of Ilis** · February 18, 2014, 07:10 AM

Ok, I think I made it. Here's what I do. I cut a square from a shield selection image (a big image with lots of shields). I open in with Photoshop, use the quick selection tool and grab the shield only. I make it a layer, and just delete what's left (background layer - those are the edges I mention). Ha! I'm happy now. HA!