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Suggestions on how to add an image to a thought bubble?

areg5areg5 Posts: 617
edited December 1969 in Art Studio

I have an image in mind I would like to create: a person is thinking, and there is a thought bubble. He is thinking of a specific scene, so rather than words the thought bubble is another image. I have photoshop and I figure there must be a way to do this but I can't figure it out. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    something like this

    I rendered the images as a PNG with nothing in the scene. This keeps the Alpha intact. Choose a background colour that is similar to your speech bubbles as the PNG will have a fine outline in the colour around the object. However if you render it big you can use the Defringe tool in Photoshop to remove it. Then it is just a case of resizing and layering to the images together.

    Spark_of_InspirationFinalFinal.jpg
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  • areg5areg5 Posts: 617
    edited August 2014

    Szark said:
    something like this

    I rendered the images as a PNG with nothing in the scene. This keeps the Alpha intact. Choose a background colour that is similar to your speech bubbles as the PNG will have a fine outline in the colour around the object. However if you render it big you can use the Defringe tool in Photoshop to remove it. Then it is just a case of resizing and layering to the images together.

    That looks pretty much like what I'm looking for, but I'm not very adept with photoshop. Can you give me a walktrhough if it isn't too much trouble? Ideally, I was thinking of being able to create the thought bubble using the photoshop tool to do so (looks cartoony) and crop whatever isn't inside the bubble.

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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited August 2014

    Ok to save me going over what you need what do you know?

    Do you know how to change the background colour in Daz Studio?
    How to load a Speech Bubble Brush and do you have some?
    Do you know how to layer renders in Photoshop?

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  • areg5areg5 Posts: 617
    edited December 1969

    Szark said:
    Ok to save me going over what you need what do you know?

    Do you know how to change the background colour in Daz Studio?
    How to load a Speech Bubble Brush and do you have some?
    Do you know how to layer renders in Photoshop?

    1. Yes, but what I want to put in the bubble is a whole scene, not an object as in your example

    2. Yes

    3. no

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    Well that makes it even easier. Whay OS are you using Windows or Mac. I don't know Macs at all.

    open your render layers in the folder you stored them it
    Open Photoshop
    Select your renders in the folder and simply drag and drop them into Photoshop
    Select your main render in Photoshop and then drag and drop the speech bubble render on to the main render. Or use Copy and Paste Ctrl + C for copy and Ctrl+V to paste the speech bubble layer.
    Since the bubble render is a full scene there is no need for the Defringe tool however is will have sharp edges with it being sq. You can soften the edges by using the eraser tool set to a low opacity.

    It may help me better if I can see the full bubble render. Then I can show how to soften the edges buy using a shape.

  • areg5areg5 Posts: 617
    edited December 1969

    Ok...I did something along those lines. I put a thought bubble in the image, copied the bubble image to the first image so it covered the entire bubble and saved it. then used the clone stamp tool and the first image to copy the borders of the bubble to the second image. Thanks for your help.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    If you are happy then I am happy. I would have taken screen shots but I am rendering and my resources are low..just enough left for the net

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