Help!

[ababysean]

I know this is a photo forum but Ive Googled and I can not find a walk through what I'm looking for.

I want to make a cut out for my son's teacher and put her name and have the children's faces making her name, kind of like a cut out.

I have done this before with the word Grandma and put the grand kids but I dont remember what it is called to search for a tutorial in Gimp.

I lost my photoshop due to a computer crash, so I only have Gimp

Thanks so much in advance

 

[KmH]

....I lost my photoshop due to a computer crash, so I only have Gimp......

:scratch: Computer crashes don't erase applications.

 

[Ryan L]

....I lost my photoshop due to a computer crash, so I only have Gimp......

:scratch: Computer crashes don't erase applications.

Well, they do if your hard drive fails, or a virus can be more work to remove than to format and start over. But that doesn't erase the CD if thats what your getting at!

 

[table1349]

....I lost my photoshop due to a computer crash, so I only have Gimp......

:scratch: Computer crashes don't erase applications.

Well, they do if your hard drive fails, or a virus can be more work to remove than to format and start over. But that doesn't erase the CD if thats what your getting at!

I think the point was that computer crashes don't eliminate the program completely if you own a legitimate copy of the application.

 

[Live_free]

:scratch: Computer crashes don't erase applications.

Well, they do if your hard drive fails, or a virus can be more work to remove than to format and start over. But that doesn't erase the CD if thats what your getting at!

I think the point was that computer crashes don't eliminate the program completely if you own a legitimate copy of the application.

Which 90% of people don't.

 

[table1349]

I think the point was that computer crashes don't eliminate the program completely if you own a legitimate copy of the application.

Which 90% of people don't.

And even in *that* case you can get it back the same way you got it in the first place.... not that I CONDONE that... As much as I really REALLY want photoshop... I'm still using GIMP because I won't do that for a number of reasons.

I'll get a legit copy of Elements soon enough so I can ditch the GIMP.... gotta save for other things first... :lmao:

:salute:

 

[KmH]

....I lost my photoshop due to a computer crash, so I only have Gimp......

:scratch: Computer crashes don't erase applications.

Well, they do if your hard drive fails, or a virus can be more work to remove than to format and start over. But that doesn't erase the CD if thats what your getting at!

A computer crash, is not a hard drive failure, is not a virus.

 

[KmH]

I think the point was that computer crashes don't eliminate the program completely if you own a legitimate copy of the application.

Which 90% of people don't.

Adobe says 33% of their software that is installed on computers is stolen, which is why honest people pay $699 for PS/CS5 or $199 to upgrade to PS/CS5.

Those out there that have stolen copies of Photoshop, should really wonder how Adobe knows that. Think about it!

 

[leftypony]

It is painful how expensive the program is ... I'm still using my student edition of CS3 that I bought while in college.

 

[Ryan L]

A computer crash, is not a hard drive failure, is not a virus.

People that are savy or in the industry realize this, but to many if your monitor is unplugged and you can't see your desktop, your computer has crashed! I work in the engineering side at a cable company now, but I used to do service work in people homes. Lets just say, the world is full of not-so-bright people.

 

[KmH]

It is painful how expensive the program is ... I'm still using my student edition of CS3 that I bought while in college.

Then you actually have CS3 Extended, Student Edition, right?

Well, the good news is you can upgrade to CS5 for only $199 or you can upgrade to CS5 Extended for just $349.

 

[emh]

I think the point was that computer crashes don't eliminate the program completely if you own a legitimate copy of the application.

Which 90% of people don't.

And even in *that* case you can get it back the same way you got it in the first place.... not that I CONDONE that... As much as I really REALLY want photoshop... I'm still using GIMP because I won't do that for a number of reasons.

I'll get a legit copy of Elements soon enough so I can ditch the GIMP.... gotta save for other things first... :lmao:

I can't justify the cost of CS5 either and felt limited by Elements. Went with Corel's Paintshop Photo Pro X3 and quite happy so far. Give it a try -- there's a free 30 day trial, so nothing to lose.

Pirated software bugs me... although I can't help thinking that a good chunk of the pirates will buy a licensed copy if PS CS wasn't so absurdly expensive. Maybe I'm being naive... I'm sure Adobe has a bunch of highly paid finance/economics folks figuring out the optimal pricing to make the most money.

 

[ababysean]

I had a legit copy. The computer was old, the photoshop I had was probably at LEAST 8 years old, thinking back from my son's birth. I've been through 7 moves in 8 years (thanks military) and stuff gets lost/misplaced stored in boxes behind boxes, thrown away. I never had a problem ONE on that computer and then one day my 7 YO son goes and downloads some kind of "cheat code generator" arggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! and phizzzzzzzzzzzzzit. Everything was lost. It was cheaper at that point to just buy a new computer, considering I had an over 8 year old computer. So after all those moves, I'm sure the Photoshop disk just kind of went into a "Dont need right now" office supply box. At one point I moved from a 2700 sq foot home into an 800 sq foot apartment for 5 months, much stuff was misplaced during that stage, we stored some here and there, friends garages, parents houses, so......

Either way I would still need a tutorial on how to do it to refresh my memory.

 

[ababysean]

And before anyone goes and tells me I can call them, blah blah blah... yea, tried that, they couldn't find me.

It was a gift from an old boyfriend, so I'm not pressing the fact of how much it cost either....

Gimp works for me now, I have 3 kids, live on a military pay, I don't work outside the home....

So now onto my original question....
Does anyone know I should google for a tutorial?