Just to add in since the talk of "How to Save" is on...
Saving a project as a .gif will allow transparent backgrounds to be truly transparent when displayed say...in your signature here.

Looks really effective Jamaal, I got the same tut off good-tutorials but its good to have the info here at XS.

Cheers, nicely done and applied

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Great tut, Jamaal, like the effect and better than that, it's right here at XS, so I won't have to go anywhere else.

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Thanks man...appreciate it!

If you need any help, let me know.

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can you please tell me how I can "unlock" a backround of a pic to take out the color or other stuff in the backround? also, i'm using photoshop cs

I think you just need to rasterize the layer.

Right-click on it and select "Rasterize Layer". That should take away the lock and allow you to erase what you don't want.

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cool..thx alot i'll give it a try.

Nice tut Jamaal but my rectangular marquee is just a rectangle and not a rounded rectangle like yours. Do you know what I am doing wrong

Sorry, I didn't have the default settings in PS when I did this tut...but I do now.

You can pretty much do the same thing with the Eliptical Marquee tool...if you want the rounded edges.

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Thanx one more offtopic PS question how do you create the black border fo an image of the border check your aD pm