Newbie Photoshop 7 Help

I am looking for some help on how to use Photoshop. WHat I am trying to do is move a speedometer needle from its indicated speed to a new spped without disrupting the picture. I was thinking I could just lift the image off and rotate it but I dont know how to do it. I have attached a link although not the same picture I am using but similar. How would you move the needle to say 200 Km/H?? Thanks everyone..

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ok if you use the lasso tool to cut it out and rotate it it will leave a blank space so you need the same pic with the needle at a differnt position so you can fill in the blank space.. If you understand that it can be dun like that lol......i think..:\

OK I will give it a try

here you go, hope this helps.

Click herehttp://www.atozphotoshop.com/Pictures/carspeed.jpg

Here is how i did it, first i selected the dial with the polygon tool, then copy and pasted it to a new layer. Then use the freeform option and rotated it to the 200.

Then i had to cover up the old dial with the clone stamp tool. After this i copied the 60 from the other side and copy and pasted it, as well as grabed the 1 from the 180. Then i flatted both layers the numbers were on, and did replace color to make it match the other numbers next to it.

And a little twicking to get the dashes and walla!

WOW!! Great job. I am going to try and play with mine some more. Thanks for the help.


P.S. The link you provided doesnt work I just typed it in manually.

Now I cant figure out how to rotate it? Any help with that?

first select it, then go to free transform, free transform puts a box around the image. In the center you will see a round cirlce, drag that cirle to the middle of the dial arm. This will be the point at which you object will turn.

Then drag your mouse outside the box until you see the curser change to two arrows, you will see what i mean.

once you see that left click and hold down, then start draging, and the object will rotate.

After it's rotated just use the clone stamp tool and clone the area's were you cut out the original location of the spedometer.

If your not familiar with the clone stamp tool, it's basically a tool that clones area's that you select as the source area that your cloning. To use it look for the area you want to clone andhold down alt, option on Mac, and left click that area, that will now be the area you will be cloning. Remember the bigger the brush size the bigger the area you will be cloning.

If you want a small area cloned select a small brush, want a big area selected, select a big brush, but also remember if you want just a certain colour to be cloned that your source your cloning is only that colour, if you overlap 2 colours, or 2 images that's what will be cloned.

Hope that helps.