Deevil Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 Can anyone tell me how you cut out pictures from their backgrounds easily on photoshop. I've looked on loads of tutorials and i really can't find anything, any help for a complete noob to the program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 If it's a singl colour background you could use the magic wand to take away the background. Or draw around the picture with one of the select tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan_Dare Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 you wanna use the magnetic lasoo tool. it picks out the defined edges by pixel colour so it wraps around a single object. thats the best way i beleive. any photoshop ninjas feel free to correct me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 Filter > "Extract" to get to the extract tool. Use the highlight tool to draw around the outside of the image, your aim being to have about half the object and half the background highlighted. Then, once you've gone all the way around, use the fill tool to fill the area you want to fill. Check the preview then accept your changes. Don't forget to do it on a duplicate layer first to avoid ruining the first if you mess it up. If it's too rough, go around the edges with the eraser. Alternatively, if it's a simple image, try the magic wand as people have mentioned and mess with the tolerance levels along the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deevil Posted October 30, 2005 Author Share Posted October 30, 2005 Thanks for the help everyone but i'm a complete idiot and i really can't find that filter thing or the magnetic lasso any help, im runnin paint shop pro 8 if that helps . Sorry fo being a complete pain in th ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleveland_Jr Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 psp is not photoshop lol in paintshop pro I used to always use either the eraser or background eraser...now I have photoshop though...using the eraser takes time but its worth it if you do it properly....you have to make sure you use different sizes and harnesses depending on which bit of the bg youre erasing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 Aha :p kinda confused us there. Photoshop is its own program, made by Adobe. Paint Shop Pro is a Jasc Software program, they're very different I'm no authority on PSP though I'm afraid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedrocasilva Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 Aha :p kinda confused us there. Photoshop is its own program, made by Adobe. Paint Shop Pro is a Jasc Software program, they're very different I'm no authority on PSP though I'm afraid Not Jasc Software anymore, Paint Shop Pro is now a Corel program; they bought it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 Not Jasc Software anymore, Paint Shop Pro is now a Corel program; they bought it. Oh, well, I would keep up on the current affairs of PSP if I didn't detest it :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleveland_Jr Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 Not Jasc Software anymore, Paint Shop Pro is now a Corel program; they bought it. yeah but hes talking about psp8, which is jasc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deevil Posted October 31, 2005 Author Share Posted October 31, 2005 Aha :p kinda confused us there. Photoshop is its own program, made by Adobe. Paint Shop Pro is a Jasc Software program, they're very different I'm no authority on PSP though I'm afraid Yeh sorry about that i confuse myself most of the time, did i mention i can't read properly? Anyways downloaded a free trial of photoshop now so i'm gonna try that out thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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