Any graphics guys around who wouldn't mind helping out tonight?
 

I have a custom helmet that I need to create and I've never done one before. I was wondering if any of our board pro's might be willing to help me make one. I would really appreciate it.

The main thing I need to do is place a picture that I already have in a blank helmet that I already have and then color the remaining part of the helmet. What is the best and easiest way to do this?

Assuming you're using Photoshop or something similar, bring the picture you have in and crop out any background that you don't want included. If it's a pretty solid image that you want to use, that could be as simple as using the magic wand to get rid of the current background.

Then bring in the helmet to a different layer, fill the inside of the helmet with the color you want as a base, then make sure this layer is lower down the list than the layer with your logo. Have both layers turned on and your logo should come in over top of the helmet. Reposition until you're happy (and this will show you pretty quickly how good of a job you did cleaning up the background on the logo image).

If you're doing this with paint, similar idea, but just open up the helmet in one window and the logo in another, do the same steps, then just copy and paste your logo in. This way, if something doesn't quite look right you can just undo, continue to edit whichever portion of the project you need to.

Hope this helps. After that, it's a question of what file type you want to save depending on what you want to use it for (likely a gif or jpg for web use).

Thanks,

I wasn't sure about using paint but I'm using it to clean up the helmet picture now and it's going pretty good. I'm not too confident about how easy the cleanup of the other image is going to be but it should be fun. If need be I could just do a straight paste but the image has a squarish background that I want to crop out first.

Well, here is what I ended up with. It's the best I can do right now.

rofl. thats an awesome helmet.