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Photoshop help please
guys i am not very good with photoshop 😳 can you tell me how to crop a picture of a person from a plain background so it can be sent to print without the background ie person only and also how do you put a frosty glow arould them a bit like the ready brek ads – i have photoshop 5.5 and illustrator 9
thanks in advance John
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John,
Your best option would be to do a search online for that particular scenario (masking is what you are trying to do) and find a nice and easy-to-follow tutorial to follow. There are a huge amount of free sites to pick from, and it would be a lot easier than trying to explain on these boards!!
I would love to try and explain but as I said it would be easier to follow an online tutorial. If you have a look and decide you can’t do it then let me know and perhaps I can help.
Best of luck…
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Is that the same John from the HWLC College sign course with Bruce Barber??? It looks like it may be….
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As KN has said, it is a very difficult one to explain. There is software to make the job easier, but few are absolutely perfect. The method I use is by drawing round the outline of the bit I want to keep with the lasso tool, then reversing the selected area and cutting it away. See what I mean, it sounds aweful when you put it in text form 😮
Andrew at VectorWise would probably be your best bet as there is little he can’t do with pixels that can be done (well, apart from them making coffee, but thats a whole other ball game 😉 ) Seriously though, it may cost a few quid to do it, but the hassle and time saved is well worth it for having that image ready to use on your desk tomorrow 😀
Hope this helps a little, but if I can find the online photoshop tutorials for masking I’ll post the link here, it may help but its a tricky one to do even with experience.
Cheers, Dewi
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I suppose the easiest method would be to use the eraser tool to remove the background. Use a big brush at first and then a smaller one zoomed in to get any small detail. Then add a new layer behind the original and apply your glow effect to this layer. A simple way to achieve this would be to use a large, soft edged brush with low opacity and just draw where you want the glow.
Not the method I would use, but probably the easiest to explain quickly, and should give the desired result.
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I agree Big G… not the best but certainly the easiest to explain!
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thanks everyone
and a big high to Keith – yes its me, hope your well nice to see you on the boards!
John
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Hi John,
Using Photoshop I would create a clipping path around the subject.
Here is a tutorial on how to do that, I’m sure it explains better than I could:
http://www.eyewire.com/tips/photoshop/c … tep01.html
I would then select the path and cut and paste the cropped image into a new window with a transparent background. Then go to the styles menu and add an outer glow.
It may take a little longer than using the lasso tool, but sometimes doing it that way can take out bits you don’t want it to…I think that makes sense!
I am using a newer version of Photoshop but think these features are available in 5.5 providing it’s not the lite version.
Hope this helps,
Debbie
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cheers Debbee
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