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mirbear · BCBG

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ILoveChoo · Hermes

did you have a pic to use as an example? I can think of a few ways to do it, but it depends on what the "junk" is like and how much of it there is.

mirbear · BCBG

Sure, here's an example...and it's just an example. I stole this off a website, but would actually never do that for my own purposes...I more or less have just grey tones in the background but using a lightener doesn't work???

For example, how to get this to...

to this?

How to remove all the excess? I'm so dumb..I can't figure it out:)

If you get what I mean..this is what I came up with asap.

ILoveChoo · Hermes

hmm, it looks like you could just use the magic wand tool (I think that would be the right one- I don't have the program here at work to look at) and just click on each of her limbs to select them and then just cute them. i think that would work as long as there's a decent amount of contrast between the part you want to keep and the part you want to get rid of.

mirbear · BCBG

Patience is a virtue that sometimes I don't have. I have tried to figure out that wand...and never could do anything w/it. I'll try again.

If you have earrings you think w/even a white background and you just want to see the earrings...can you do the wand thing too? What's w/the gradient thing? Is there a way to make a transparent background? Would that even work? Maybe I'm losing my mind.

Edited and I tried the wand...not working? What's wrong w/this thing??? Oy vey! Geez. Nothing happens. I'm like the tooth fairy that's completely retarded because I can't do anything w/this wand. Any good books out there to help me with this?

-- Edited by mirbear at 13:44, 2006-06-14

erin · Chanel

ok, the magnetic lasso tool would be a better option for the first picture you showed. you can click points and select the shape you want to see.

mine is an older version of photoshop, but the tool is here:

for changing the background, the magic wand tool is nice. you can select the white and delete it, but unless it's saved as a .gif or it's a psd file, i'm pretty sure when you save it it will change the background to white. you can try to copy the earrings after deleting the background and pasting it on to a new window with the transparent background selected...but again i think it will still save with a white background. (i could be wrong, though! it has happened before!)

the gradient tool is nice if you want a gradient background. drag the mouse left to right/up down/etc to to get the right gradient you want.

i like illustrator for more design-based things...i don't think it is good for editing photos.