PING: Cuervo72 or anyone else. Need a little help with quick photo edit.
 

I've been trying to figure out how to do this for the last 30 minutes, and the thought just hit me that someone on here can probably do this very quickly. I need to make a decision today as to what color a t-shirt is going to be, and I'm trying to make the logo below have different background colors. I want to change *every* bit of white on it to each of the follow colors so I can have a look at what the shirt might look like:

light blue
bright red
*VERY* light tan
light grey
bright yellow
medium grey

If you think any other colors might work, feel free to do such a background as well. I am having to click on the inside of every single letter, nook and cranny to change it from white. I'd imagine one of you can make it change all white automatically. Thanks in advance!

--Ben

Dola:

This is what I mean. This took me FAR too long to do, and it still isn't finished.

Ben,

Set the white to transparent then put said image on a web page and just change the background colors

How do I set the white to transparent? (using FrontPage)

Skydog,

What program are using to manipulate the image? You can set a default background color (rather than white) before you place the logo.

No, not with Frontpage, with your image editor. Save it as a GIF and edit the palette transparency (how you do that depends on what utility you have) to be the background in the picture.

I've got a program called "ArcSoft PhotoStudio". I can't figure out the transparency editing yet. Working on it though...

Can you make it a little bigger?

ArcSoft does not save as, or load, GIF. My only other options are Paint and "Microsoft Photo Editor"

Photo editor should be able to save as a .gif... not sure if it'll do transparency, tho...

dola.... it DOES do some rudimentary transparency... look under the "tools" menu...

Yeah...I just used Photo Editor. I'm in good shape now. In a couple minutes, I'll post the web pages. I'm curious what y'all will think...

Here we are:

http://www.younglifenorthlake.com/red.htm
http://www.younglifenorthlake.com/grey.htm
http://www.younglifenorthlake.com/forestgreen.htm
http://www.younglifenorthlake.com/ltblue.htm
http://www.younglifenorthlake.com/yellow.htm
http://www.younglifenorthlake.com/ltyellow.htm

Thoughts?

Here's a version of the image where all the white is transparent:
http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/VPI97/ccreek.gif

Here's the image on a background of your requested colors:
http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/VPI97/lightblue.html
http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/VPI97/lightgrey.html
http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/VPI97/mediumgrey.html
http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/VPI97/lighttan.html
http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/VPI97/brightred.html
http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/VPI97/brightyellow.html


Edit: Crap, I was late. :)

I like the forest green.

I don't like the red one, and can't see any light yellow background on the last one...

Edit: the other ones look pretty good.

Oh, and this should have been already said by me, but thanks a TON for showing me how to do this. Now we can make a much better decision, and we'll probably end up choosing a different color than we would have just looking at the white and guessing.

--Ben

Grey, light blue, light yellow... in that order.

i can send you full size of whatever you want, skydog.

Wheels,

Those look great, man! The side-by-side comparison is quite helpful.

What's with the 70's hippie font, anyway?

Our trip theme song is "Fantastic Voyage" by Lakeside. I can't recall if it came out in the late 70's or early 80's. Either way, the tune has a distinctly 70's feel to it. Every time we start the buses moving (which will be a number of times between Tucker, GA and Fraser, CO), we will play the entire song over the bus PA. Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage!

Way to reach out to today's youth there, SD... ;)

We used this song four years ago (before the current seniors were eligible to go). It was a HUGE hit. Coolio sampled it a year or so before we used it. Once again, someone has sampled it in a current tune this year. Besides, we intentionally go with something that is not "current" to intentionally be silly. It usually works. "Kung Fu Fighting" and "Convoy" have both worked very well in the recent past as well. Teenagers. Go figure.

Why do I suddenly have visions of SkyDog as Billy Jack?

Ah... well, I suppose I'm too young to have heard of the original, and too old to have heard the songs that have sampled it...

I'm really trying, but I just don't see it.

Oh, and I can't believe they ever made more than one of those movies... just goes to show you, drugs are bad, kids....

Ack, sorry about this Ben - I haven't been on FOFC too much lately (or the IHOF board today much for that matter), so this slipped by me....if you need any other colors changed, it should be easy in photoshop just by selecting a color and using the replace color tool....PM me if you have any other specific combos in mind, but it looks like others have already come to the rescue.

G

Well, I'm old enough to remember the original, but I only know of the recent samplings because I have volunteer leaders who are in college. :)

You mean
COOLIO!

Yes, Photoshop color replacer makes this simple.. I would ahve offered my hand as well, but I am doing this little annoying thing called high school during those hours, but thankfully I'm about to retire from that in 2 weeks.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help earlier Ben, but it looks like the fine folks have covered it well.

I think most of us would still appreciate seeing what that logo would look like after receiving the "Fritz" treatment...

And I thought you were a rap fan, at least from back in the day. You know, like Rakim, NWA, Coolio. ;)

Not sure if you're serious or not, but "back in the day" is not that era, my friend. "Back in the day" connotates Kurtis Blow, Afrika Bambaata (Sp?) and the Zulu Nation, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Kool Herc, Run-DMC, Whodini, LL Cool J (when he was "only 18 makin' more than your pop"), M.C. Chill, The Treacherous Three, MC Shy D, MC Shan, Ice T (with "The Glove"), et al.

Am I the only one that finds the use of the term "et al" at the end of a list of rappers a little humorous? :D

I wasn't being serious putting Coolio on the same list with Rakim (I'm surprised I didn't get a suspension for that one.) To me, "back in the day" is pretty much up until Straight Outta Compton or maybe even Illmatic on the East Coast scene. I didn't start listening to rap until probably 97 or 98, but I'm not gonna attempt to group in the likes of 2pac, Biggie or Coolio - all the ones that appeared and disappeared before I started listening - as old-school.

dont forget the beastie boys. you know you loved them

dola

and Deborah Harry

Will Smith and jazzy Jeff?

That's "D.J. Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince," thank you very much.

Slide slide slippity slide!

Forget about your troubles and your 9 to 5.
Just saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiil along (that's what ya do you just)
saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiil along
Now the beat's so funky. Hey what do ya thank?
What is it called? It's called the Lakeside stank.

Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage.

We're the directors of this cruise ship
And you are under our command
All around the land, music is at hand, HUH!
And you can understand.

We want to see, people havin' a good time (everybody dancin')
Dance to the music (we create the beats)
That foot stompin' music (that keeps the people dancin')...

And never forget....

If you're ready to party and you wanna get down
Bring your ma, your pa, and brother James Brown
Bring Auntie Em and Toto too
And all the party people to do their do
We'll dance and party till the early light
And say, “Hey, we're feelin' alright”
So come along, come on take a ride
There's a party over there, that ain't no jive
We're leavin' here in a cloud of smoke
And th-th-that-th-th-that-th-th-that's all folks

Falco.

When I was in high school, a group of nerdy/talented/funny guys wrote and recorded a parody song entitled "Chart Me Mendeleev." It was hilarious.

Men Without Hats?

i was making a white guy joke that has now gone to far.

Fritz, you can dance if you want to. You can leave your friends behind. And your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, well they're no friends of mine!

.mp3?