n00b needs help with PS7

[Snitzel]

I have a picture and i want to extract a guy from it. what would be the easiest/fastest way of doing it?

[Snitzel]

I have a picture and i want to extract a guy from it. what would be the easiest/fastest way of doing it?

[Snitzel]

http://www.geocities.com/snitzei/Sni...?1046084653265


Thats the photo if its of any help....

[Mike Bailey]

I would just erase the background with the eraser.
the only part that may give you trouble is the characters shoe where it goes into darkness, your gonna have to get the shape right.

Have fun!

[Snitzel]

Arg. That's what i didn't want to do :- oh well, i guess i should get to work then http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[alkolka]

In Photoshop 7 it is simple enough using the new Extract Filter.

With other--and older Photoshop--image editors you'd use the standard selection/mask tools to extract this guy.

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[Snitzel]

^_^ i found something faster and easier than erasing it all. I was reading past threads and another person had asked this. Someone in there had suggested the polygon lasso. but, i found that the magnetic lasso is ALOT easier than the polygon one. so, anyways, i found an easy way. just though i would share http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Snitzel]

Whoa! thanks Al, that helped ALOT! i posted my last post i guess just a little to late

[Snitzel]

Hmm...i've been messing around with the extract filter...and i cant seem to get it as good as you got it, actually not even close to how good you got it...uhh, any tips or advice or something...?

and yes, i suck with photoshop :P

[alkolka]

Snitzel,

I'm also not a guru with PS7. The sequence I used with your pic was...

1. Use the Edge Highlighter Tool to quickly outline the guy. Remember to also outline the "holes" inside the cuffs and between his arm and leg. During outlining, I zoom in real close and use a smaller diameter brush size than default. By holding down the spacebar you can use the "hand" tool to move your image and get access to the next area. The outlining does not require precision. PS7 will "find" the edge inside the outline's width.

2. Use the Fill Tool to tell PS7 which other areas are to be saved.

3. Click Preview and see how things went. Some images, with high contrasting edges, may be perfect at this point. Your guy wasn't. In a few areas PS7's guesses were a little off, with some of him missing and some background included. You may need to zoom in to see these errors. But this is normal and PS7 provides tools to quickly deal with them.

4. Steps 1-3 took me, maybe, one minute. Next I used the Cleanup Tool to fix the errors. Basically, you can erase the areas of your image that should have been discarded. If you hold the Alt key (Win) down, the Cleanup Tool restores portions of your image that were incorrectly chucked.

5. That's all I had to do. There are other tools and settings that can be used and fiddled with to improve quality or speed when necessary. The PS7 help system really can explain it all.

If you think extracting a part of an image is something you might need to do again, take the time to learn this tool. It really is a good one.

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