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- uptown, on 10/10/2007, -12/+145Yeah? Well, I DIDN'T bookmark it ... so there.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -3/+72Plus it's useful for catching stray robots.
- zomgwaffles, on 10/10/2007, -4/+61are you in soviet russia by any chance?
- Kwinti, on 10/10/2007, -10/+48or just use magnetic lasso. . .
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+39true Photoshop experts cut with the pen tool.
- disrupter, on 10/10/2007, -9/+35It bookmarked me
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -2/+27..not really.
- BossKey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23On hair, no way.
- Cubsfan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24Pixel Perfect had an episode on using this tool too. http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/extract
- CarolynMittens, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21the magnetic lasso tool is great if you want a sloppy uneven cut-out.
pen tool ftw >:( - digitul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18or use layer masking which is the same thing basically
- edwartica, on 10/10/2007, -5/+20you poor thing! :(
- orelses, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17The results are poor. I suggest taking a bit more time and get a much better result.
- JoshuaH, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15But they do have a discount at the torrent online store.
- cJeremy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18nice.... dugg for that chick tho =D
- chazcron, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Extra Extract tip: Before you extract, float a layer of the desired image, set your history marker. After you've successfully extracted, load the selection of that floating layer, (cmd+click the layer on the layer palette) then add the selection as a layer mask. Now revert the layer to the history marker and you have the ability to fine tune your selection. For the life of me, I can't figure out why Extract doesn't automatically do this, or at least have the option.
- Phearce, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10And if you really really really want to say you did something, learn to brag in digg without providing steps for reproducing your achievements. Pics or it didn't happen.
- SnuKs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Or use the Quick Mask Mode or if you're even lazier use the erase tool and adjusting the brush size and hardness accordingly ;p
- FTLJohnson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Since he put the word time in parentheses... I think that he was pretty clearly equating lost time to lost life... meaning you could have used that wasted time doing better things with your life... It's pretty simple logic really....
- samfishercell, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11This is a quick and sloppy way to do this. It doesn't look the best, but it will work for only photoshopping hilarity and the like.
DIGG MASHUP: Combine this story with this hit from yesterday! [http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Flying_Jump_Kick_PIC] - GvnMcCld, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9This one is 8 steps, much less efficient!
/sarc - Devrdander, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Exactly, masking is much more forgiving too since you don't actually destroy the layer, i never trust the history brush for things like this.
- soljin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7This 'Tutorial' is utter crap. Learn to quick mask!
- pseudostatik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Like this?
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1209/1216859637_08d5310950_o.jpg - quinlan, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10You bookmarked it socially.
- magic6435, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Pen tool + Mask = Correct background removal.
- anagoge, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8The extract tool makes someone look as if they're about to perform a Quantum Leap.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9I'd hit it!
- jawngee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Simplogic is right, BossKey is wrong.
You use the pen path tool for building the general outline as accurately as possible, create a channel mask from the pen path and refine the channel mask to get your soft edges.
That's how professionals do it anyways. - JustinDavid86, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Can someone let me know what kind of patients to bring? Car accident patients? Cancer patients?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Extract tool sucks. It leaves you with blurry or "dirty" edges.
Just go into quick mask mode. Paint in the area you want to keep, and then exit quick mask mode and then you have a selection. BOOM! And you are done.
It allows for much better accuracy because you can use any brush shape when painting in the area and you end up with much cleaner edges. - WhiteIce89, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7The perfect mask requires pen skills =]. Or rectangular lasso if you're masochistic like me. However the easiest way to extract even hair or palm trees is, if there is a good deal of color difference between what you want to cut out and the background, go to Channels, duplicated the color channel with the biggest color contrast, play with levels, then copy the channel and paste it into a layer mask on the original image. Voila.
- chroto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6photoshopped
- FTLJohnson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5or just double click the layer on the layers palette, converting the background layer to layer 0 and then add a layer mask. Then paint out the background with whatever tool you want, at whatever level of accuracy you want.
- EricG, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4thanks .. nice complement to the parent article.
- randyjensen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5note: only use this method if you want your image to look like *****
- ch33sehead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4In CS3, there's the Quick Selection Tool that does selection sooo much faster. You can always use the magnetic/polygonal lasso (or ghetto style w/ the Patch Tool) to refine your edge.
- jawngee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I agree and you can do the pen tool almost as quickly as this extract method.
The key is first build a very rough outline with the pen tool, the fewer points you make the better. Using the Add Point tool, refine the path by adding more points and removing the old points from the rough outline. By the time you are done, you shouldn't have any, or only a small number, of the original points you laid out in the initial rough path you created.
You further refine the edges by creating a channel mask from the path and blurring, etc. the channel mask. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I just felt a great disturbance in the force, as if a thousand photoshop jockies cried out at once.
Dude, masks do it while being non-destructive to the layer. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Personally I cheat like a dog. I give people haircuts and redo their hair. It's easier and faster.
- NiX0n, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3let me introduce you to my friend, the digg button.
- behlib99, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Soooo, a short tutorial on cutting and pasting...
- ulysseshead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Cmd+click the mask you want in the Channels pallet. Go to the layer you want to mask in the layers pallet. Select it. Click "Add Layer Mask" (little button at the bottom of the layers pallet). Wa-la.
- szembek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I was expecting a *quick* way to remove backgrounds. What I got instead was a web page telling my how to trace parts of an image, and get rid of the rest.
1. Trace foreground with polygon/magnetic lasso
2. Select > Inverse
3. Delete - Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Bad idea in many cases. Magnetic lasso doesn't calculate alpha channels like extract take into account. This is particularly important when extracting humans and hair. One nice thing with extract is exactly that it also takes the "shining through" of a background into account, and tries to leave the foreground appropriately.
- alceria, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Quickmask FTW.
- KirbyTheGenius, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Yeah, the magnetic lasso is easier and more accurate.
- cultur3b0mb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Nice, but nothing beats the pen tool and a bit of patients (and feathering).
- w3bsmith, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Bah! I hate this technique! I wish Adobe had never invented it.
Why? for one thing you have to draw around the object(s). If I have to go around the object already, I might as well use a lasso.
Which brings me to point two. When you draw it’s not easy to keep steady over the long run. With a lasso you just click in small increments to rough in the selection. Then smooth, feather and either copy the selection to a new layer, or create a mask on the layer - revealing the selection.
And then there’s the third point: time. It takes 3 - 4 times more time to do the extracted way than to use a lasso of any sort. When you have to do this and process 50 - 100 images a day like this, it becomes painstakingly obvious how time consuming extracting really is.
Anyways, enough said. I’m glad some people are finding ways to rehash these techniques in a fresh way. - ericisshort, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I understand how to play with channel contrast and copy it, and create a new layer mask, but how do you paste the channel into a layer mask?
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