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Can someone make me one please?

I'd like to use the Brees picture as the main image in the center, with the astros logo on the left in the background, the saints logo in the center behind baylen and drew, and the lsu logo on the right in the background, keeping the word "champions" in front all of them. On the left in front of the astros logo, i'd like roy oswalt, and in front of the lsu logo i'd like anthony ranaudo.

I know that is a lot, but i've seen yall do some awesome work. Any questions let me know. TIA

Astros


LSU


Saints


Baylen and Drew


Ranaudo


Oswalt



I went into paint and threw the one below together real quick to give yall somewhat of an idea of what i'm looking for (easy on me, its the 1st time i've done anything like that). Yall obviously can make it look 100 times better, without the picture stretching and everything. I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do. Thanks again.

Please put the flag in the background and the teams in the corners. Put alajones in the middle. And I know I am really asking too much here considering you are doing me a favor, but please make sure it doesn't exceed the size allowed.

Thanks a million.

wanted to get this down to sig pic size
didn't want to add anything, just want it to be the same size as the sig pic i have now.

-thanks!!


this is the original picture i took, sorry it's so big

hey tim, i shared those unlv pics you made me with our point guard (the guy in them) oscar bellfield and he liked your work man (gave proper credit ha). i attempted a poor edit of the name. just thought i'd let you know man, good stuff.






and i had a question too, i tried to make that massive collage timeline background with the paint.net you told me to download. i sort of did a nasty rough draft. but how can i make the pics faded in the background like you did? honestly i know it probably takes a good bit of time so i won't ask you to take this project on, but any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance man.

I'm glad ya'll liked them. I can do add Bellfield's name to the wallpaper, if he would like.

Do you see how you painted over your name to put his? If you have the image saved in layers (like I do since I originally created it) you can change one aspect without messing with others.

How to fade might be a little complicated to discuss here. I'll give you a little example and if you need additional help, you'll have to send me your email address.

Again, the secret here is layers. Whenever you add a new object to your image, add it in a new layer. That way you can manipulate one part at a time. Put a black layer behind the las vegas strip. Now, use the gradiet tool. At the top you can change gradient to transparency. Then you edit your vegas layer to let the black "shine" through. It is difficult to describe but not too hard to do.

You can manipulate individual layer transparency. That is how I faded those images besides (others I did by hand with the gradient tool recently described).

The hardest part is a process called masking. There are several ways to do this but it can be a painfully tedious process to do correctly depending on the image.

Here is an image similar to your current one.

replace tiger with the blue jay symbol and put lsumatt224 under it

I thought this turned out well. It might look a little more dramatic if I used black instead of red or gold for the backgrounds.

Thanks Tim. You do great work. I just noticed that there's a s at the end of "beers." Not supposed to have a s. I don't wanna sound ungrateful, but is there any way I could get that corrected and get the Atlanta Braves "A" logo in the top right corner, just like the msu one is on the left?