Long time!

So I was looking back at this post to create some "art" from photos-

http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...aitphoto/page2

An important step is to manually draw around and cut out your subject, so that later, say, you can fill just the subject area with a splatter or watercolor fill.

This was a xara tutorial from many product versions ago.

In dealing with with shapes defined by background and foreground (i.e., black human silhouette against white background), is there a newer way to get xara to define the foreground shape automatically based on color, and not have to draw around?

For example, you have a model with lots of hair. The model is all silhouette, the background is white. It would be difficult to draw around all that hair. And this is what some "knockout" or "isolation plugins" are for. Yet-- they still just visually get rid of the background (make it null or invisible), and the actual xara shape of the object is still a rectangle defined by the original photo.

Is there a newer way to make the main object the new xara shape automatically using color differences?? This is so that when applying a fill, the fill would only fill (affect) the foreground shape, not the while rectangle of foreground+background

Thanks