{"id":1320,"date":"2011-03-04T23:45:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2011-07-26T21:16:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T21:16:03","slug":"creating-a-silhouette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Silhouette"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Want to create a silhouette of yourself, your baby, or anyone?\u00a0 Well, here’s how you do it.<\/p>\n

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You will need Photo Shop and a profile picture of the person you are making the silhouette of.\u00a0 It’s pretty easy, just a little time consuming till you get the hang of it.<\/p>\n

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1. Take a picture of the person’s profile against a white piece of paper or a nutral wall.<\/p>\n

2.Open your image in Photo Shop<\/p>\n

3. Zoom in on the picture anywhere from 100-400<\/p>\n

4. Using the Polygonal Lasso Tool, begin to trace the outline of their face\/head.<\/p>\n

5. Click at any starting place, go slowing around the head.\u00a0 It might take a few tries, but you will get it.<\/p>\n

If you mess up, don’t panic!\u00a0 If you hold ALT down and\u00a0 click on your picture, it will delete lines.\u00a0 You can see a tiny minus sign next to the lasso tool when you do this.\u00a0 Go around the line you want to disappear back to the first place to click, you will then see a lasso little icon, let go out the mouse at that point and the unwanted line will be gone.\u00a0 Then if you want to add a line-more off your image-\u00a0 hold down the Shift key and do the same thing.\u00a0 It would be good to play around with these a little before you begin.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 After you have your entire silhouette selected and are happy with your lines.\u00a0 (I made her hair cuter and added an eye lash).\u00a0 Create a new layer.\u00a0 Copy\u00a0 and paste the image on to this new layer.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 Select that new layer.\u00a0 Hide the old layer.\u00a0 Using the FX, below where your layers are, click on Color Overlay and choose the color you want your silhouette to be.\u00a0 Black or whatever you like.<\/p>\n

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8.\u00a0 After you do this you can see your lines a little better, you can now go back and smooth out lines, using the alt or shift keys.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 Once you are happy with it save it and print it out!\u00a0 Put that puppy on the wall.\u00a0 Go you!<\/p>\n

If you are having trouble with these directions e-mail me at LynnSpins@gmail.com\u00a0 I’d be happy to clarify better and help you out!<\/p>\n

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Want to create a silhouette of yourself, your baby, or anyone?\u00a0 Well, here’s how you do it. You will need Photo Shop and a profile picture of the person you are making the silhouette of.\u00a0 It’s pretty easy, just a little time consuming till you get the hang of it. 1. Take a picture of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-photoshop-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}