You said that you have to be 80-85 to get heirlooms. On my first char ever (undead rogue) i played a lot of random battlegrounds and i got the pvp shoulders. It takes time but it was totally worth it :D. And btw great guide.
You can smooth the hard edges of a selection by feathering. Feathering blurs edges by building a transition between the selection and surrounding pixels. This blurring can cause some loss of detail at the edge of the selection.
There are two ways to accomplish the next step, which is to place your image on top of a plain white layer: 1  Make a new blank file in Photoshop (or any other image editing program that supports Bezier curves). 2  Set your image size to match the image you have chosen to trace.  Open your chosen image.