threading string

[beckyritchie04]

Hi ladies,

Can someone tell me how to thread a string through a tag? I bought the A Fish Story kit this weekend and I want to be able to string some fish in a line using the elements from the kit, but I can't figure out how to do it in PSE. I found a tut to do it on PS but the directions dont match.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[ditzyscrap]

What I usually do is place the string on top of the tag and make sure you have it lined up EXACTLY how you want it to be (once you do the next couple steps, you can't change it).

Then hold down CTRL and click on the thumbnail of the tag in the layers palette (not the line, just on the thumbnail), and it'll put "marching ants" around the tag.

Make sure that your string layer is still selected, and grab your eraser tool, and erase ONE side of the string, so it looks like one is over the tag and one is under (the marching ants help you so that you only erase the part that you want to seem "covered" by the tag).

Then you can just deselect (Ctrl+D is the shortcut) and continue on. You might want to link the layers, so they don't move alone and you have to try to line it up again.

HTH!

[beckyritchie04]

What I usually do is place the string on top of the tag and make sure you have it lined up EXACTLY how you want it to be (once you do the next couple steps, you can't change it).

Then hold down CTRL and click on the thumbnail of the tag in the layers palette (not the line, just on the thumbnail), and it'll put "marching ants" around the tag.

Make sure that your string layer is still selected, and grab your eraser tool, and erase ONE side of the string, so it looks like one is over the tag and one is under (the marching ants help you so that you only erase the part that you want to seem "covered" by the tag).

Then you can just deselect (Ctrl+D is the shortcut) and continue on. You might want to link the layers, so they don't move alone and you have to try to line it up again.

HTH!



OMG! Thank you so much. That was so much easier doing it that way. You are awesome :)

[**Holly**]

Hey thanks for the tips!

[Andrea Gourley]

Sometimes my two worlds - paper and digi - just don't tally. I read the first part of your post on the roll over and I'm sat here thinking (with my paper head on) well it's dead easy, just poke it through and tie it in a knot!

Need to wake up my brain I think :p

[ditzyscrap]

LOL, Andrea!