Posted by AlexRoss on December 16, 2008 at 11:09 AM
I am finding this too hard, I googled and found some companies that do this sort of thing, has anyone tried them? Is clipping path the same as deepetching. http://www.deepetch.com seems to be one good one, I also saw http://www.rapidclipping.com/Photoshop_clipping/home.htm and http://www.ezyclipping.com. Has anyone had any experience with this sort of thing. My catalog has over 300 images of jewelery and jackets with fur fitted on manequins due in two weeks, all shot on a blue studio background. Do I require alpha channel masking? Can anyone help please?
Posted by Tracy Hope on December 16, 2008 at 12:15 PM
I use photoshop CS2 and the magic eraser works wonders for this type of work...
It is a older copy of photoshop so hopefully you can find a cheap copy to work for you.
Sounds like you're in over your head... how unpleasant. I'm not an expert; you've already gotten some pretty advanced techniques advised. Fur is really tough without special software.
My way isn't fast but it's simple: just use the magic wand tool and click on whatever you don't want in the images. Keep adding or subtracting from the selection until you have what you want. Feather the selection a few pixels. Then either do a color fill and select the color you want, or with the color squares set to default black and white, reverse them to white and black and hit delete. That will put a black bg into the selected areas.
WORK ON COPIES OF YOUR IMAGES just in case!
Any version of Photoshop will do for this method and the one Tracy suggests. Good luck.
EDIT: Also post your question on the digital imaging forum. And there may be articles about this in the archives here at NPN. Order lots of pizza and plan to hunker down...
Alex, I'm a graphic designer and what you're trying to do is something I often do for clients. If you need help with this, I'd be glad to talk to you about the project, my fees, etc.
You can check out my company at www.cuttothechasemarketing.com, then call or email me from the contact page.
Thanks,
Nancy J. Wagner
www.nancywagnerphotography.com
Posted by Brent Murphy on February 2, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Russell Brown had some good tutorials on doing this. Check out his Tips and Tricks page. About halfway down, you'll see a few tutorials like "CS3: Extracting Monster Backgrounds". I believe this and a couple of the other similar tutorials will explain exactly how to do what you need.
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4 repliesIt is a older copy of photoshop so hopefully you can find a cheap copy to work for you.
My way isn't fast but it's simple: just use the magic wand tool and click on whatever you don't want in the images. Keep adding or subtracting from the selection until you have what you want. Feather the selection a few pixels. Then either do a color fill and select the color you want, or with the color squares set to default black and white, reverse them to white and black and hit delete. That will put a black bg into the selected areas.
WORK ON COPIES OF YOUR IMAGES just in case!
Any version of Photoshop will do for this method and the one Tracy suggests. Good luck.
EDIT: Also post your question on the digital imaging forum. And there may be articles about this in the archives here at NPN. Order lots of pizza and plan to hunker down...
You can check out my company at www.cuttothechasemarketing.com, then call or email me from the contact page.
Thanks,
Nancy J. Wagner
www.nancywagnerphotography.com