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cutting someone out of a picture.

  • 11-06-2006 06:57PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok, first up this is my very first attempt so its my own way of doing it. Wondering if there was an easier way (using PSP).

    Here is what I did.

    1. Take a normal photo (for the test a stock photo).

    2. Picked a subject I wanted to remove.

    3. Created a new layer and set it to 25% opacity.

    4. Painted in white freehand draw around the subject.

    5. Cleaned up using the eraser around the edges.

    6. Created a new layer above that and using free drawing, I draw a line around the person and highlighted areas.

    7. Went back to layer 2 and erased anything that went over the outside lines.

    results in the attachment.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Creepy! Can you make him move?!

    If I did that I'd use the jaggy line lassoo tool to select the outline of the person as fine as possible, zooming in close up. And on a new layer I'd fill the selection I made with the lassoo tool. Then put a stroke on the outside of the cutout on the new layer (blending options) and manually draw the inside bits with a pen.

    There's probably even quicker ways of doing that. I'm sure there are some raster-vector converters out there but I haven't found a good one yet (for mac) apart from an old copy of some Adobe or macromedia software I used to have. Although Inkscape can vectorise from a raster image, but I couldn't get simple detail like that image there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    You could create a selection and paint white inside it

    a15stksp182byarachnid15stock1m.th.jpg14ca4.th.jpg24ub1.th.jpg

    I cant decide if shading makes it better or worse.

    Ps I used a tablet to draw in the details..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    tba wrote:
    Ps I used a tablet to draw in the details..
    Was just about to ask ;) would love one of those things.

    Looks better without the shading imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Nice. The shading puts you back into the picture (if you get my drift).

    Need to find a way to not make the face look so cartoon like. I guess a smaller brush for drawing the lines.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    It is possible to get some cheap A5 tablets with a decent pressure sensitivity for under €60, I have used them before

    I believe I saw one in Argos.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Great work guys, alot like the aha video that was done all those years ago :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    This concept intrigues me, there is a strong metaphor about the individual being gone... I have a few ideas for a series, but I need to prefect this technique first.


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