matelin

Is the pen tool the best ways to use on this image to get all of the fine detail??which best toll shall I use? thanks for the assistance all.
thank you.

MindBender

I'm not sure what you mean by "get all of the fine detail". What exactly are you trying to do here?

matelin

Apologize, I used wrong choice of words earlier. I am trying to erase out the background and leave just the motorcycle (the blue one) but there is so much detail in the background.. which tool is the right choice?? thanks!

ronmatt

yes. I'd say that in this case, the pen tool will render the best results.. You'll have a hell of a time with the spokes though.. You may consider just making them. The rest is pretty cut and dry.

MindBlasting

Hi ronmatt, i am not used pentool before but i use magnet-lasso and quick mask to select he image perfectly.

Now with the latest Adobe CS 3 we don't have do the manwork to make a selection 'The Quick selection tool 'do's all the work for us and also to redefine the edges.

I want to know the real tutorial of using the pen tool in tough situation can you give me any link here.why i am this is because i already mentioned above that i use different methods to make my selection.

Gaussian

Perfectly with the magnetic lasso tool and at that size? I guess my idea about what?s called ?perfect? is different than yours MindBlasting.

That tool is indeed an improvement over the magic wand tool, but not more than that based on my own experiments. Once you have to deal with difficult edges with little contrast and a difficult background you run into the same problems that any other automated extraction tool suffers from and always will suffer from. They all can be a useful addition to our "extraction toolbox" but not more than that.

As for the pen tool; nothing beats the pen tool when it comes to things that have smooth lines and curves against a difficult background or with blurry edges.

MindBlasting

you may be wright gaussain but i can't completely agree with your choise.Your wright eventhough i never used pen tool i made a lot of work using other tool and saw the use of pen tool to redraw the edges pefectly.

Mind you, Adobe CS3 contains a great combination of tool that allow you to make your work fast its damn sure i am using it,if you do the work in Ps v7.0 to PS CS2 in 30 min.
You can do it in less than 15 min... and i am sure for expertise work use should grab a copy of CS3.( not to mention i think your an expert in PS and plz don't tell me that if you know well about photoshop we can do it any PS versions).

And also i mention to give the best pen tool tutorial or any other link that will show me the best results about using the pen....why i am asking this is, i recently saw about the usage of the pen tool and i want to know more about it.

thanks............

Gaussian

Sorry, can't help you, I seldom search for tutorials.

MindBender

Some very very well done tutorials at this site. You should read every single one of them over and over.

The pen tool:
http://www.thegoldenmean.com/technique/pen1.html

Difficult edge extractions. I really like this type of technique... basics are explained here:
http://www.thegoldenmean.com/technique/replace_bg.html