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07/26/2005 03:37:09 PM · #1 |
I would like to delete the background of one of my past challenge pictures (this one:  )
So that my dog seems to be against a plain blue sky. I can just paint over the background but 1. the blue color is too uniform and, more troubling, 2. I can't seem to paint around his whiskers.
Does anyone know a better way to do this? |
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07/26/2005 03:40:16 PM · #2 |
What software are you using?
You might want to check out the Post Processing - Selections thread though it's slanted towards photoshop.
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07/26/2005 03:44:43 PM · #3 |
Why against a blue sky? Looks fine as is.
you can mask out the dog and then using a 1 pixel paintbrush mask the whiskers.
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07/26/2005 03:48:47 PM · #4 |
I think the dog looks good against the tree too (although when I submitted it for a challenge many people disagreed), but I happen to need a picture of him without a background. I'd just take one, but he's at "summer camp" on my parents farm, so I can't right now.
I'm using either photoshop elements or fireworks.
I'm not sure what masking is. |
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07/26/2005 03:53:11 PM · #5 |
If you have PS you can use the Extract function. A quick try at it.
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07/26/2005 03:55:59 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by SDW65:
If you have PS you can use the Extract function. A quick try at it.
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Wow! Can you explain step by step how you did this? :-)
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07/26/2005 03:55:59 PM · #7 |
| That's promising, although it deleted a little too much. Maybe I can play with that, though. Where is the extract function? |
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07/26/2005 03:59:07 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by saiphfire:
That's promising, although it deleted a little too much. Maybe I can play with that, though. Where is the extract function? |
Its up under filters. You can adjust the size of the brush to make a more detailed extraction. Good luck, its a great tool to work with. I would suggest when you open your picture in ps duplicate it about 3 or 5 times. Do the extraction on each and pick the best one or combine them it one shows details that others don't. |
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07/26/2005 03:59:43 PM · #9 |
There's a good explanation of the selection tools in this thread.
//www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=242083
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