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Remove Complex Backgrounds from Images in Photoshop

Remove Complex Backgrounds from Images in Photoshop
While tools like the Magic Eraser can sometimes remove your backgrounds, the fact is you’re going to have to get your hands dirty with the eraser if you have images with complex backgrounds that need removing. While this can be time consuming, you can save yourself a lot of time with a little Photoshop wizardry. Let’s take a look. Right click your Background Layer in your Layers Palette, and choose “Layer from Background…” It automatically renames as Layer 0. Simply press OK. Your Layers Palette should only have a single layer, your newly unlocked “Layer 0.” Press to select the Lasso Tool. Use your Lasso to draw a rough selection around your image. When your selection is done, press to move your rough selection to a new layer with “Layer Via Cut.” to bring up the eraser tool, or find it in your Toolbox. Visit your Control Palette again and set your “Mode” to “Pencil.” Use the eraser to mouse around and delete the parts you don’t want. Keep in mind you can always undo with a swift to undo or

200++ Photoshop Photo Effects EmailEmail Have you ever wonder where is that photo effect tutorial you saw the other day and start searching all over the internet but couldn’t find what you saw initially? Honestly, i have. That is why i throw them all into this article instead. But i also use these article to gain inspiration on what to do with my photo image. Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect Photo to Pencil Sketch Effect Sin City Style Effect How To Make Your Own Vector Portraits Tutorial: Good and Evil Photo Effect The Making of Mystic Effect Transform A Person Into An Alien Effect Reflective Bubbles Effect Crack and Peel Effect Expressive Lighting Effect Displacement Effect Vector Composite Effect from a Photo Easy Watercolor Painting Effect Twins Effect Apple Style Portrait Effect Compositing Effect Dimension Effect Blue Glow Dreamy Effect Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions Effect Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effect Electrifying Energy Beams Effect Eery-Eye Photo Effect Fairy Night Eye Effect Fairy tale Effect Magic Book

Photoshop tips, tutorials and lessons for photographers The Best 26 Photoshop Tutorials of May-2012 Search our Site from the search box given above. Master Photoshops Selection Tools in Under 30 Minutes The Selection Tools In Photoshop In this article I’ll explain some of the different and powerful selection tools that are available in Photoshop. This guide is aimed at beginners, but can hopefully provide a few extra pointers for more advanced users. Personally I find it very easy to get stuck using only one selection tool, when it can be beneficial to experiment with several in your work. The Marquee Tools: The Marquee Tools consist of the Rectangle, Elliptical, Single Row and Single Column selection tools. The Rectangle Tool The Rectangle tool allows you to draw rectangles or squares. If you’d like to move the square’s position when you are dragging it out, hold down ‘Space’, move the square to your desired position and then release ‘Space’. The Elliptical Tool This tool allows you to draw circles & ellipses. The Single Row & Single Column Tools The Single Row Tool and the Single Column Tool allows you to select a single row of pixels across the image. The Lasso Tools Lasso Tool Colour Range

The Best New Features of Adobe Photoshop CS6 Photoshop CS6 has some great new features that designers are sure to love. Upgrading from CS4 or CS5 is simple and straightforward, and the new tools are intuitive, practical, and extremely helpful for a wide variety of design purposes. Adobe put a lot of time and effort into their newest iteration of Photoshop. Content Aware Move This is one of the most impressive additions to Photoshop CS6. Once you have made your selection, make sure that the Content Aware Move Tool is selected, and simply move your selection wherever you want it. The New Blur Filters Field Blur Field Blur is an excellent filter for giving your photos a realistic blurred look. It doesn’t take much, since I only set the blur effect to 15px to get the result shown above. A great feature for all three new blur filters is the handy dial in the center, which allows you to adjust the position of the blur on two of the filters, and increase the amount with the dial manually. Iris Blur Tilt Shift The Interface Content Aware Patch

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Handy Techniques for Cutting Out Hair in Photoshop This post was originally published in 2009 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. When trimming out images in Photoshop, human hair or animal fur always proves troublesome and can be tricky to achieve a realistic look. Here are two techniques I use on images with both plain backgrounds, and those with a varied background tones, each achieving pretty decent end results. Technique One: Images with Plain Backgrounds The best photos are those professional studio type shots that are taken against a plain white background. Open up your image in Photoshop. Head over to the Channels palette and review each of the Red, Green and Blue channels. With only the new channel selected, adjust the Levels (CMD+L) to dramatically increase the contrast between light and dark areas. Due to the slight variation in tone of the background, it appears grey in the darker areas. Switch over to the Burn tool and target the shadows to dramatically darken down the inner areas of the image to pure black.

5 Useful Little Photoshop Tricks to Add Extra Elegance For Your Design 5 Useful Little Photoshop Tricks to Add Extra Elegance For Your Design Join 640-553 web designing training course to learn how to create beautiful images and boost up your creative skills using PMI-001 photoshop tutorials and 220-702 DIY guide. Recently I have been focusing on providing some simple, beginner-leveled Photoshop tutorials here on psdvault.com, aiming to helping Photoshop starters to learn some basic, but useful things towards their design. After all, I do get lots of emails from beginners wanting to learn from the basics. Therefore, I made a few mini Photoshop tutorials and compiled them into one, big tutorial with some tricks I learnt and discovered in the past. In this post, I will show you 5 Useful Little Photoshop Tricks to Bring Out That bit of Extra Elegance for Your Design. The topics I will be focusing on in the post include: Give Your Text A Bit More Depth Here is the problem – You typed some text onto the canvas, but somehow it looks just boring, like this text below:

44 Grunge Photoshop Tutorials What’s up today? We’ve actually compiled a whole array of creative grunge tutorials so you can infuse staggering grungy styles into your artworks using Photoshop. Lately the grunge effect is known to be an enormously popular trend in web design, and basically it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere any time soon. So if you want to really wild on your grunge designs, you may now explore different techniques in Photoshop that can give your artwork some textured, aged and uneven looks with rusting metal signs, dirty spots, grunge patterns, scorched borders, or overall distressed accents. Head blow off effect Designing a typographic concept poster Distressed effects in Photoshop The new way to create 3D text Create a rough woody text effect with wood splinters texture in Photoshop How to design an impressive graphic tee in Photoshop How to make a worn vintage beach ad in Photoshop Design an awesome geometric shaped typography with grungy background in Photoshop Creating a retro grunge poster

Learn It 2 | Adobe Photoshop Tutorials Lord Of The Rings Poster Adobe Photoshop Tutorial Create a poster for the movie Lord of the Rings. Colorizing Photos Learn how to colorize black and white photos. Add Wrinkles Learn how to add wrinkles to a pretty face. Change Eye Color Learn how to change the color of a person’s eyes. Google Adsense Learn how to blend in a Google Adsense ad with Photoshop. Modern Text Create a modern text in this Photoshop tutorial. Poker Banner Make a banner for a poker website in Photoshop. Muzzle Flash An easy tutorial on how to make a muzzle flash. Digg Logo Adobe Photoshop Tutorial In this tutorial you learn how to make the Digg logo. Metal Text Make your text metal with this tutorial. Dogtag Create a dogtag in this Photoshop tutorial. Simple Button Learn how to make a simple button. 3D Abstract Art Make 3D abstract art in Photoshop.

Quick Tip: Remove a Person From a Photo With Photoshop CS5’s Content Aware Feature With the launch of the new Adobe Suite of programs comes the long awaited Adobe Photoshop CS5. Packed with new features to speed up your workflow it truly is the most advanced edition of Photoshop to date. One of the new features we will be looking at today is called Content Aware. Original Image Before we begin, download the image that we will be working with. Step 1 Using the content aware tool on different images produces different results. Step 2 We are extracting the person on the left from this photo. Notice in the image below how far I am drawing the path from the subject. Step 3 Once you complete the path around the subject, turn it into a selection. A dialog box will pop-up, make sure the feathering is set to 0px. Step 4 Now we have an active selection around our subject. A dialog box will pop-up, make sure the Content Aware option is selected. You can cancel the selection at any time by making another selection or just clicking anywhere else on the page with any selection tool.

Simple Cel Shading with Adjustment Layers Photoshop Tutorial | Maca is Rambling digg Hello! Here is a little tutorial that I arranged for some of you who are interested on how to cel shade using the Levels Adjustment Layer in Photoshop. Now, what is cel shading and why do I spell it wrong? First of all it is actually spelled right – “cel shading.” Cel shading (often misspelled as ‘cell shading’) or toon shading is a type of non-photorealistic rendering designed to make computer graphics appear to be hand-drawn. Here in this tutorial I will teach you just that with a style that I use often in my drawings. Step 1: Draw your line art on a layer. It can either be drawn on a layer with a white background (especially if it is scanned) or a transparent one. With a white background, set the blending mode of the layer to Multiply. Step 2: Lay the base colors under your line art. Underneath the layer of your line art, create layers where you can lay the colors. Added green to clothes Added dark green to shirt and cape And here are all the base colors laid out in the drawing.

3D Text Shatter Effect – Tutorial I’m going to show you how to make a 3D text shatter effect. This effect is made in two programs, Cinema 4D and Photoshop.If you haven’t heard of Cinema 4D before it is a relatively easy to use 3d application, it is quite similar to 3dsMax or Maya. I will go pretty in depth with the Cinema 4D part, for all the inexperienced users, so bare with me if I go too slow. Now enough chit chat, let’s jump in. Required Resources In this tutorial we will be using some resources you will want to download before starting: (Optional) Cinema 4d material *NEW* – We just released a font that you can download that creates a similar effect. Final Image Preview Step 1: Creating the basic text Open up Cinema 4D and make a text object Write “Media Militia” in the text object Now rotate your text object: 90* on the X axis and -90* on the Y axis Create an Extrude NURBS object And drop your text in it Change the object properties of the Extrude NURBS to 0 / 0 / 35 Rename your object “Media Militia” Add 350 to the offset

The Dark Knight Rises Stencil Effect in Photoshop The Dark Knight Rises movie is a couple of weeks away and the amount of posters and viral images promoting the movie is quite amazing. There are some really cool ones and as usual we want to learn how they were done. That is the case of this Photoshop tutorial based on another promotional image for the Dark Knight Rises. So in this tutorial we will create a stencil and spray effect using basic filters and some brushes. The technique is very simple and I am sure you will use it in your future projects. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. Step 2 With the Polygonal Lasso Tool (L) select just the head of Bane. Step 3 Duplicate the head layer just to have a backup. Step 4 Look up on Google Images for the Batman symbol. Step 5 Add a layer to use as background. Step 6 Duplicate the background layer, hide one of the layers and then select the visible one. Step 7 Go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise. Step 8 Go to Layer>Layer Mask>Hide All. Step 9 Make the hidden layer of the step 6 visible again.

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