Basic help

[Master_Enforcer]

As you might of read in my other thread I'm young and have not studied graphics in school or anything.
After downloading some grunge brushes from the internet ( finally) I have made this:

http://i40.tinypic.com/24n1b7s.jpg

Now I want to put a halo pic into it but I have a problem with that they all have backgrounds and I want to use my pic made with grunge brushes as background. So question is when you copy and paste a pic how do you get rid of the background it comes with.
Dont tell me to use lasoo tool im using a laptop and im rubbish at lasoo tool.
And magicwand tool i click the image but it only selects a tiny bit of it.
How do I do it? I'm using photoshop CS3
plus where can i download fonts?

[ME24saken]

You could also use the pentool to "render" it out.
But if i where you, i would search for a pic without bg. Planetrender has a lot of those pics.

[Fubar]

yeah chances are that there is a bg-less version of your pic on planetrenders.net.
but yeah, the only way to do it yourself would be to learn how to use the pen tool to remove the background manualy or erasing the bg with the eraser tool but using the eraser will probably look a bit choppy if your doing it with a laptop mouse pad thingy.

you can download fonts from many website. the most common/free one is dafont.com
tell us if you need help installing fonts ;)

[Master_Enforcer]

Got a problem...
I got a halo pic opened it up on word and copyed and pasted it into photoshop but it has a white background???

[Fubar]

why would you open it on word? wuld better be opening it in photoshop if you want to copy paste it, to copy something in photoshop, you first need to select it, ctrl+a = select all

so yeah, to remove the white bg now, the magic wand tool is the pefect fit. the magic wand is used to select every similar pixel in the neighbor of the one you clicked on (meaning all the white pixel will be selected). cut the selection out and there you got.

[Master_Enforcer]

One last thingy how do you get some from dafont.com?
I got firefox i download it and it says open with and i opened it with photoshop but it says it is not the right kind of file so how do i get the font into photoshop?
Im using CS3

[Fubar]

hehey, you don't open font in photoshop, you install them in windows (or w/ever the operating system is). in windows, you got to go in the control pannel and open the font folder. you drop the font in that folder and it'll automaticly be added in all the applications you use.

[ME24saken]

I need to open it again in the font folder. But that might be only my pc.

[Fubar]

really? what version of windows do you have?

[ME24saken]

XP

[Fubar]

odd, fonts should be added automaticly when put in the font folder :\
anyway I dont use the font folder myself :P I'm having so many font. it would be a real mess if they were all activated at once. I use a font manager to activate the fonts I need when I need them.
I got tired of scrolling half an hour to get a specific font in photoshop xP

[DiEByMacro]

odd, fonts should be added automaticly when put in the font folder :\
anyway I dont use the font folder myself :P I'm having so many font. it would be a real mess if they were all activated at once. I use a font manager to activate the fonts I need when I need them.
I got tired of scrolling half an hour to get a specific font in photoshop xP

hey can you tell me what program you used to manage your font database since I have too many fonts in my comp , too .
@ Master_Enforcer: I think there are many tools in photoshop in which it can help you to remove the background and the easiest thing I can come up with is trying to use the Mask tool with Q hotkey . Just use with Black ( select where you wanna remove , don't worry if you see the red zones ) and white brush tool ( if yoy wanna redo the red zones back to its normal color) then press Q again, use Ctrl+ Shift + I to inverse the selected zones, press Delete then you get rid of what you don't want in your artwork .