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I have an image which was given to me to edit for a website, however I don’t know how to do it. I need to be able to change the image in the background (currently clouds) to something else, however maintaining the grey striped through look on the top of it. How would I do this?
The image I am talking about is currently hosted at the following address: poowong.org.au/callum/sky.jpg

Any hints/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Callum

Fireworks is a great program for image manipulation (Superior to photoshop in my opinion). Here are some awesome tutorials I have found:
http://solardreamstudios.com/learn/
Sounds like you might want to start from scratch, but you can also use the lasso tool to cut out sections you would like to reuse. Good luck!

3 Responses

1. curiousE Says:
   February 20th, 2010 at 2:35 am

   if it isn’t a vector you would have an easier time editing it with photoshop and then importing it into Flash. Flash can’t do much to bitmaps.
   References :

2. mikah_smiles Says:
   February 20th, 2010 at 2:49 am

   I’m thinking you need to build that from the ground up. It’ll probably be easier to do than editing that image, and you’ll get a better quality at the end.

   Try laying out the grey blocks on either side, and the image, and then making a pattern of diagonal stripes to fill over the image. Then try a blending mode, like multiply or maybe screen or soft light, with a transparency to get that look. It might take some tweaking and experimentation, but I think if you keep trying different settings, you’ll get something close.

   And it might be easier to do it in Photoshop rather than Fireworks.
   References :

3. stan_naspinski Says:
   February 20th, 2010 at 3:04 am

   Fireworks is a great program for image manipulation (Superior to photoshop in my opinion). Here are some awesome tutorials I have found:
   http://solardreamstudios.com/learn/
   Sounds like you might want to start from scratch, but you can also use the lasso tool to cut out sections you would like to reuse. Good luck!
   References :
   http://solardreamstudios.com/learn/

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