Bah! If PS has it, PSP doesn't, and if PSP has it, PS doesn't!

[Exsanguination]

I'm going crazy! Everytime I try to make something nice and fancy using either Jasc PSP 7 or Adobe PS6, I end up finding that need a tool the other one has!!!

Example: I'm trying to create a picture with Bismarck as Layer 1, and a Panzer Attack frame (acquried through Flicster) as Layer 2. I want Layer 2 to be around 50-60% transparent (or opaque as they call it). I'm using PSP7 to do this since PS6 does NOT have to invaluable Ctrl+T selection tool. All it has is the bloody magic wand which worth about as much as a sack of stool .

BUT! Wait a second... I can't paste my Panzer selection as a new layer! Why? Who knows! Sooooooo... I go into PS6 (a program I am much more fluent in) and try to copy that same selection on to Bizzy. But lo and behold! It pastes the whole damn picture, not the selection I acquired through PSP7!

Accordingly, I make all the feeble attempts possible to take that same picture I Ctrl+T'ed in PSP7 and make the selection I wanted. Of course, PS6 does not offer such convienences. So, I am stuck! Blasted!!!!!

Does anyone know how to accomplish what I want? I want to simply get that damn Panzer on to Bizzy picture, while being transparent at the same time so it doesn't look so odd (I wanna so the same with X-Man and his Immortals but lets go one step at a time). I tried this with each file as a pcx, and then with each as a jpg. Any solutions? How the **** do I paste as new layers in PSP7 (I've NEVER been able to do that)?

As you can see, where one is convienent, the other ISN'T. Or I am just lacking the right knowledge . HELP ME!!!

(is this the right forum to post this?)

--Ex

 

[Globber]

look around for some third-party plug-ins for either program, the Ctrl-t thingy sound be available in some form for PS, i would assume...

 

[damunzy]

Interesting sig, Ex.

 

[ArmOrAttAk]

Hey I know what you're trying to do. One day I was playing with PSP making selections, pasting onto another picture, not replacing the backround laying on top like you said. It was all pretty easy. The next time I tried I couldn't for the life of me remember how I did it.
Guess I'll keep checking back here hoping somebody knows...

 

[Exsanguination]

Actually, I figured out how to do it the hard way with PSP. All you have to do is start from a fresh slate (new file). I kept trying to do it all with Bizzy as my first layer.

The one thing I hate about PSP is that its so very user-friendly that its not very powerful. PS6 has many more capabilities, and is much, much better IMHO. But the Ctrl+T function is just an amzing function (especially when dealing with civ3 pcx's) that I almost always end up resorting to PSP7. I'll see if there is a plug-in. Any ideas where I could look?

PH - I rather enjoy your sig as well.