tmbabu_78

Hello evryone!

I am new to this forum. I have little knowledge on photoshop. Now coming to the point, I have attached the picture inwhich I would like to get that "lady and gentleman with the wire" as a separate picture. I wish to create a flash with the background sky moving despite their communication. Hence I tried to extract it, but the boundary/edge of the pictures looked ugly.

Kindly suggest me a way for this!

Lakhs of thnx,
T.Murugesh Babu

wbiss

Hi tmbabu_78 and welcome to the forum.

Everyone has their 'favourite' method of 'extracting' parts of a photo and yes, generally speaking, the 'extract tool' works great. However, in this case, it could be that the image is too small and you weren't using a small enough brush? Is this the actual size of the image? [confused]

Whatever... apart from the pen tool (which is your most precise method of selection), I would try applying a mask. Whatever method use choose to make your selection (i.e. magic wand, magnetic lasso, color range, etc.) you're going to have to do a fair bit of handpainting on the layer mask to get rid of the excess selection because the image is a sillhouette.

Enjoy your time on the board and good luck with your project! Consider it a basic 'learning experience'!

Welcome to the board tmbabu_78 [righton]

Bubble

Hi tmbabu_78 and welcome to the board - I hope you enjoy your time here. It would be good to see how you fair with this project. Maybe you can post some results when you are done. Good luck !!

wbiss

In case you're having trouble with this project, tmbabu_78, I extracted the couple with the telephone, using the pen tool and have posted it here as a transparent gif with a white matte.

Feel free to use it. If the matte doesn't suit you, I can always E-mail you my PS file and you can apply whatever matte colour you choose.

namvet

Wendy (wbiss) as always, excellent work ... and so giving of your time and talent [righton]

bubble!!! ... you are around! ... you had me worried that I had 'upset' you with the pic I posted in the fodder thread

Bubble

Namvet!!! There is a picture of me in the fodder thread... now what a surpirse!! [stuned] Seems I have some catching up to do.

No, not disappeared, just been too busy lately to do any of the things that I want... surprise :{ [righton]

wbiss

Tx Ian (namvet)! We do what we can, when we can!

tranquil222

Sometimes what I do when i'm trying to extract something with little contrast between foreground and background(as in where the feet meet the horizon) is I duplicate the layer and pump up the contrast via a curves adjustment layer. This will give a tracer image from which to make a mask from(you could also extract the pumped up dupe, select the transparency, and layer via cut the original layer from that selection, but heres a better way. This pumped-up duplicate shows a bit more distinction in the legs, but the feet are lost in oblivion. So this is where I would use my imagination and draw them in in a mask. So after I have the duplicate, I would add a layer mask to it, adding in the feet in the mask, and also draw their outlines, make a selection of that mask(the example isnt so great, as it was rushed) and then layer via copy it from the original. Then I would drag the extracted elements to my new document via the layers pallette. There are many ways to do this, this is just my first inclination.
have fun
[righton]

tranquil222

Bubble, I posted a nicer pic of you(which was pinned as being too nice by a Mrs. Joy Foraker) in the fodder forum to balance out Ian's depiction
[honesty]
http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum...=asc&start=555