I am new to Adobe Fresco and drawing apps in general for that matter. What I would like to get out of Fresco is the following - 1. in the image of the loon, get rid of all the white pixels so the grain of the underlying wood shows - 2. how can I precisely cut out the paddle from the black bacground (and there's a lot more of that black background in the original image, what you see here has been cropped).
Is there an easy way to accomplish these 2 tasks without having to get a PhD in the app?
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Hello and welcome to Fresco!
First of all, Fresco is a drawing app, so you'll be able to perform the task you want, but not as efficiently as it you used a specific compositing app n(like Photoshop)
What I mean in that is that you seem to want to alter ready made artwork, not drawing on a canvas like you would in real life, eg: with paintbrushes and paint tubes.
One way to achive what you want quickly in Fresco would be sort of "hacks".
For example for the duck logo, you can select the layer, go t
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Hello and welcome to Fresco!
First of all, Fresco is a drawing app, so you'll be able to perform the task you want, but not as efficiently as it you used a specific compositing app n(like Photoshop)
What I mean in that is that you seem to want to alter ready made artwork, not drawing on a canvas like you would in real life, eg: with paintbrushes and paint tubes.
One way to achive what you want quickly in Fresco would be sort of "hacks".
For example for the duck logo, you can select the layer, go to the layer settings panel and choose "multiply" under the blending mode
it will not cut those pixels bt make them invisible if anything darker (the board) is showing underneath. Since Black is darker than the board it's showing, and white is lighter, it's not showing.
As for cutting out the black pixles, there is no automatic solution like there would be in say- photoshop (Desktop or tablet), you'll have to select it by hand or use the magic wand
or use the contextual menu to either erase, or mask...
You can obviously apply the same method to the white part in the duck logo!
So yes, it's still possible, but not as advanced as you would find in a dedicatde app.
Don't forget that for the beginners, all the right info is available in short tutorial form in the "learn" section of the app
including steps by steps where you get the app showing you what to you while you are effectively doing it. (called hand-on tutorials)
Hey look at that! Your suggestion using the layer settings panel - blend mode - multiply - worked perfectly. This is the exact result that I wanted - getting rid of the white so that the underlying wood shows through. Thank you! I still have a few more issues but for now, I am a very happy camper. You're a great teacher Imaginerie!
So this is perfect - we have gone from a downloaded image of a loon with a white background, gotten rid of the white in the downloaded image to allow the underlying wood grain to show through. An academic question at this point - can I select the loon logo at this stage and move it around?
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