Any Photoshop gurus available

[BF]

As some of you know by now, I'm wanting to do some paint work on the Valk.  f6gal helped with a couple pics, but I'm wanting to play around with a couple pics some more. 

I downloaded a trial version of Photoshop Elements 10....it said that it would have full capabilities.  I'm not wanting to make a goldwing out of it or insert a pic of Stanley Steamer sitting on my bike or anything crazy, I'm just wanting to play with the colors and designs a bit. 

I played around with the Elements 10, but I'm not seeing any way to do what I'm wanting to to. 

Do I have the right program.....or what I'm I doing wrong here.     Help.   ???

[Stanley Steamer]

Let a 3rd grader show you how to do it...I charge copyright fees for my handsome images!....

[hubcapsc]

A free program called GIMP will do what you want, it is the open source alternative
to photoshop... you'll probably have to figure out how to use "layers" and some other
non-intuitive stuff about transparencies and alpha channels to do what f6gal did, so
there's some amount of learning curve, but not too hard after you know what you're
trying to do...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_compositing

-Mike "I don't understand anything after the 1st couple of paragraphs on the wiki page"

[rainman]

mike gave a idea of what color you are looking for I had your bike done in red and white and clicked the wrong buttom and lost  everything I had done so i will have to start alover again and I am using photoshop 7 alot to learn but it is worth it

was going to send you a picture of it when i got with it was just red and white. I will start over again later on today. just for the fun with working with pictures.

rainman

[DFragn]

+1 on Gimp  http://www.gimp.org/

Photoshop Trial ver. ... I don't believe it'll allow you to save or print.

I've used Gimp for Web Site development & it's been wonderful. Very similar to PS.
Gimp is open soyrce and full functional.
Either one of these programs are quite extensive.

There is a REALLY large learning curve with either. As mentioned, you'll need to get a grip on layering.

[BF]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_compositing

Holy crap......MATH!!!   

[rainman]

just a quit 5 min. redue just a idea of maybe what your looking for

[BF]

Thanks for the help ya'll.  I was able to change some colors, but not enough to be anywhere near a quality rendering.  Ya'll are 100% correct.....way more to learn than I'm willing to on a Saturday night anyway.

I'm able to get pretty much what I want in Microsoft paint....not great, but I get the idea.  Thanks again ya'll.