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Old 09-05-2007   #1
 
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I have this tag that I made a while back, and I know all you afficianados know alot more than I on the subject. What I was wondering is there anyway to just get rid of the "Tixbomber" text and leave the rest of the tag intact, I no longer have the .psd or I obviously wouldn't be asking. Any help would be great, as you can see it has a slight gradient and some scan lines on the text band going across. So yea, any help would be awesome from you guys. The tag:

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Well, it'll be a tad bit difficult for two reasons:
The angled scanline you've got going on, and the radial light source.

However, it shouldn't be too hard since the text is isolated in that horizontal bar.

Open the image in photoshop, create a new layer.
On the new layer, create a block of the base pink, just starting at the left edge of the text, going all the way to the right edge of the image. I'd probably use the brightest pink you have there.

Then, create a layer on top of that. Recreate those scanlines to cover layer 2, and match them up with the existing. They should only cover the area of layer 2.

Now you can employ various methods to try and match the lighting up. Either by brush, or the lighting effects filter. You should try to match it as best as possible, though it should be too noticable if it's a little off in shape.

With that done, play around with the opacity, or layer properties of layer 3, and you should be pretty damn close to the original.

Shouldn't take you more than 15 minutes at that.

EDIT:
Looking at your original, your scanlines fade from left to right, which tells me your light source layer was probably on top of the whole image. Which makes sense. So you'd probably want to make a fourth layer, do your light source, and then match it up.

Either way it's still 10px too tall for the forums
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Took about 2 minutes. I just put a rectangle box over the text. Added a gradient, used the the eye dropper tool and just picked out the colors, and put scanlines over it. It just all fell into place. Omega made it too complicated.
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Couldn't you use the clonestamp tool? Or am I mistaken on what it does?
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Couldn't you use the clonestamp tool? Or am I mistaken on what it does?
With that you can just pick a spot, then click else where and kinda duplicate it. Pretty much just making a Stamp, thus the reason why it is the "clone stamp" tool.

That would not work in this case, because of the scan lines. It would look weird, wouldn't work. All the scanlines won't match up, and it would be a mess.
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Omega made it too complicated.
Well there's always more than one way to do something in photoshop.
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Well there's always more than one way to do something in photoshop.
The colors in the horizontal bar was just a straight gradient. Left to right. There was no radial light source, atleast not in the box. The scanlines were just lowered in opacity and due to the gradient, look like they fade.
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Man, I knew all you guys would come through for me. Thanks for all the info and help. I'm still really new to Photoshop and couldn't figure out a way to do it in my native GIMP skills (what I used to actually make the tag). Also, thanks Zero for taking the time out to even do it for me, it's much appreciated. Once again, thank you all.
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