what program, ive tried with photoshop it takes too much time and the results aren’t good!
I’ve attached two photos: 1)img_01.jpeg 2)bed_1.jpeg
ok i want to be able to do to pic 2 what was done to pic 1 so i want to add nice scene to it and or even just possibly add a white background with some greyish shoadows to make it stand out! but i donno where to start, first of i want to be able to just cut out the bed from the rest of the pic, completely! ive tried in photoshop but does turn out the way id want it to be!
well, its not a “5 minute job” but it can be done with PS or fireworks easily (but takes time) I dont know what everyone else does but I use just the eraser with a 7 or 10 feather and start erasing all very carefully (obviously the big parts just with a big eraser or the magic wan) as I said it can be done but it takes patience
Lets wait to see which other advices people post I would like to see other techniques
To have the most professionally way, which takes the longest -
What you can do is zoom in to about 200 - 1000% and take the polygon lasso tool. Then you can select around the edges really closely by clicking points, when you zoom to 100%, you’ll see that you selected exactly the bed. Then you can either use control copy or cut or just delete the inverse of the selection.
I use cut and paste into a new document and edit it. To clean up some edges, you can use berks method of the feathered brush eraser and it will look better ;).
Man I do it by zooming in super mucho then just start erasing around the edges… I know its slow but hey, PS is cool! Well maybe someday somebody will make a program where you can cut peices out… oh well, in the mean time imma go make a better signature! Adios!
I prefer to use the pen tool myself. There is a program that does a really good job on cropping things out of images, as 3D (DDD) he knows what it is. The problem w/ cropping those images though is that you’ll need to change a lot of the lighting, cause there is so much transparent stuff.
If you chop or erase using a Layer Mask, then any mistakes you make are easily fixable. You can also brush in semi-transparent edges or lasso in hard edges after the general shape is carved.
I also think the pen tool is much better for a job like this. The polygonal lasso works, but one bad click and you have to start over. Pen is just less stressful, hehe. Also you can get more natural curves with a couple clicks instead of clicking a million times around each curve.
Zoom in say like 500% or more depends how detailed u wanna get and get the pencil eraser tool on the job at say 3pxls might take a while but if you do a gud job u will get the sharpest cleanest cut ever!
you can always try useing the magnetic lasso tool and then cleaning up the bits it leaves with the earaser
im suprised no-one has mentioned photoshop’s extract tool? filter/extract, the tool is pretty helpful and you can use path profiles to start the selection off.
I use all the methods listed above although I get mixed results witht the extraction tool. If I need something cropped to perfection I will erase as much as possible, then zoom in and drag a 1x1 pixel (or bigger) selection box with the square selection tool, then have one hand on the arrow keys and one on the delete button and move the box around the screen deleting as I go.
Erm, try using the magnetic lasso tool. If you mess up a point or two, just press the delete key It works EVERYtime for EVERY CASE for me. Just the settings need to be tweaked a bit
i actually dont like the extract tool. maybe ive been using it wrong but it never seems to work very well, i dont get very acurate edges. ill check out the tutorial…
Hey thanks you guys! soulty that link was amazing! there so much stuff on there but as moncreyweasel mentioned above, i dont get acurate edges either, which is something that’s a big problem and i want to have an item cut out of it’s origianl frame perfectly…atleast so the eye wont catch a little imperfection or so
