software advice for a moron

[wolf63]

Hello I want to buy software that will enable me to make banners for websites, posters etc. Usually when I get a photograph or steal one from Google there is a box around the object. I can crop etc (got the basics mastered) but can't cut out an object ie a face and blend it into a background. http://www.savecarsonbeckett.com/ The banner at the top of this page is the type of thing I want to do. What type of software do I need to do something like this? I want to make posters for our local Oxfam shop - to try and get more customers in.

[OBonio]

Photoshop is the type of software you need.

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/index. html

May be worth trying out GIMP first as it's free.

http://www.gimp.org/

[naz_nomad]

If you're stealing photos from Google, make sure you credit your sources ...

[fo3nix]

I'd advise you trying gimpshop first; it's just like the gimp that obonio suggests, but looks more like Photoshop (i.e., it's better).

http://www.gimpshop.net/

It's particularly good since if you read any tutorials on the web for doing this sort of thing, they'll often be written for Photoshop; since the menus etc. are similar, the instructions can be transferred without too much effort.

[wolf63]

thanks for all that - I have downloaded gimpshop. The adobe software was a little too expensive.

Google - you sound like my brother naz. I have to admit that all I do is remove the hyperlink. I was not born into the computer age and all this is very confusing for my old brain.

Any of you solve this problem for me?

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Comp uters/Question361327.html

Susan

[naz_nomad]

wolf63 ... it's just that if you're using the pictures in a public place (shop window), it's good business practice for a web-designer to say who owns the images, even to go as fas as seeking permission from the owner to use them ...

just cover your a$$ when using stuff that isn't yours ... I'm not being funny, just advising ...

[wolf63]

naz - the worst that I have done (so far) is used an Oxfam logo to put in a poster in the Oxfam shop where I work.

Thanks for the 'brotherly' concern.