Help with Photoshop..

[DJEagles]

Not sure if this is the right forum or not, but I am attempting my first cyberface, and have found a decent tutorial. My problem is, I am cutting my face out to past onto a face from the game. I can't seem to figure out how to turn shading off, because when I cut the face out it's totally black. If someone can tell me where it is that would great.

[Jitter]

so you have a picture of a face, and are trying to cut it out, and when you cut it its black? I am not sure what you mean exactly, I havent tried making a face, but I would choose either the magnetic lasso, polygonal lasso, or prob the most accurate way is to goto filter a the top and then to extract. Make sure you check the smart highlighting, textured image, and I would set smooth to around 50-60 and follow around the edge of what you want to cut. Once you have an enclosed area click on the fill tool (second one down on top left) and click inside the area you have highlighted. Then click preview. If its not exactly what you want, use the edge touchup or cleanup and you should get something that looks pretty good. Once you get it extracted, click on the transpanent backgroud w/ the magic wand (make sure anti aliased is checked) then right click and goto select inverse. Then goto edit and copy and you can paste your face onto whatever you want. Hope that helps

[jkeefeholmes]

ALso make sure the layer you are wanting to copy/paste is selected. I don't know if you have layers or not, but if you do and the layer with the face is not selected, this is what will happen. F7 will give you the layers list.

[DJEagles]

Thanks for your help..got it figured out.