Quick Photoshop help needed!

DoubleCheese · 13 Dec 2007 at 23:10

I'm making a collage of some pictures I took. I'd like the background to be black to make the pictures stand out more. So far I've set up all the pictures in the right places and each one is on an individual layer so I can remove them at will.
How do I get the background to be black though?

Cheers.

sunlitsix · 13 Dec 2007 at 23:44

there should be a layer called 'background'
just fill that in black

divine` · 13 Dec 2007 at 23:53

If not, make a new layer by clicking the new layer button at the bottom of the layers panel and fill it black. You may need to drag it to the very bottom depending on which layer you have selected when you create the new one.

DoubleCheese · 14 Dec 2007 at 00:30

Woohoo! Learned something new today then! Cheers both of you.

DoubleCheese · 14 Dec 2007 at 12:54

Ok, another bit of help needed please.

I've compiled the collage of about 12 JPEG's, each was on a separate layer. I've saved this large Photoshop file and also Flattened the layers and saved that too as a *.PSD file.

I want to get the file printed out but Photobox can't see the .PSD file and Photoshop won't give me the option to save it as a JPEG? Its a large file, about 35Mb. Any ideas?

BEn_2600+ · 14 Dec 2007 at 12:55

DoubleCheese said:
Ok, another bit of help needed please.

I've compiled the collage of about 12 JPEG's, each was on a separate layer. I've saved this large Photoshop file and also Flattened the layers and saved that too as a *.PSD file.

I want to get the file printed out but Photobox can't see the .PSD file and Photoshop won't give me the option to save it as a JPEG? Its a large file, about 35Mb. Any ideas?

Goto, File, Save for Web and save it as a PNG, GIF or JPEG or similar

sunlitsix · 14 Dec 2007 at 13:04

JPEG should be an option in the drop down box on the save as screen

DoubleCheese · 14 Dec 2007 at 13:07

BEn_2600+ said:
Goto, File, Save for Web and save it as a PNG, GIF or JPEG or similar

Thank you, worked a treat!

ScarySquirrel · 14 Dec 2007 at 14:14

Another shortcut for you.

If you have a layer selected and the colour that you want (in this case, black) just hold ALT and press Backspace. That will automatically fill it in

If the primary colour is white and the secondary colour is black, switch them with X. And to get back to default black/white just press D (I think, not got photoshop at work)