How can I make a template on Photoshop?

[Rocktroll]

I have zero experience with photoshop. My brother just lent me his laptop with it and I want to learn how to make a template. I know it will be several steps but was wondering if there was a tutorial or its actualy easy to do.

This is what I want to do.

I have a plastic template for tracing and I will scan it into the computer. Once there I want to turn it from a scanned picture to just the outline of the shape.

On top of this i want to overlap a picture of a texture but keeping its shape. Then on that overlap Grishnakhs hexes template.
Once this is done the idea is some one can download the image and just cut out the shap with a texture and hexes it.

Specificaly I have the shapes of the decks for ships but wanted to make a printable template with a wooden deck template with the hexes included.



Is this a hard task to do?

[Sherman Davies]

Hey Rocktroll, maybe you can find some help in whitestuff's GIMP tutorial. I've never used Photoshop, but I understand GIMP is a PS clone, so it should share some similarities. Sorry I couldn't be more help.