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Extractions

Extractions/Replacing backgrounds

Russell Brown

masking

http://www.russellbrown.com/images/tips_movies/AdvancedMasking.mov

extract filter

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/ExtractSM.mov

http://www.ftponline.com/reports/ddwseattle/2004/brown/

Goldenmean – used to be on gurusnetwork

http://www.thegoldenmean.com/technique/replace_bg.html

be sure to hit ‘whispies’ for hair

http://tech-slop.serveit.org/whispies/index.shtml

How to wow – select – “color range” movie – using ‘borders’ on edges

http://www.software-cinema.com/page/htw_bonus?CS=b0def0b8b1274a0aef50b5871f247405

Layer fringe using contract on edges

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/videos/layerfringe_sm.html

multiply, contract, etc.

http://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100675&xml=phs8kbmaskplay

David Nagel – edge masking tut with sample jpg

http://www.graphicsnews.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=163

Masking Example extraction

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4665730

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4696023

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4696221

Extraction tut

http://www.happydays-mk.co.uk/WebpageDesign/Extract%20tool%20in%20Photoshop/pages/01.htm

Replacing backgrounds Bud

http://www.retouchpro.com/tutorials/background/index.html

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4534116

Quick mask selection (when there’s no hair or similar problems)

http://www.grafx-design.com/12photo.html

Masking hair – Martin Evening

http://www.photoshopforphotographers.com/pscs/download/Chapter07_movie05.pdf

Jack Davis –using select>border

How to wow – select - color range movie

http://www.software-cinema.com/page/htw_bonus?CS=b0def0b8b1274a0aef50b5871f247405

Katrin’s extraction

http://www.photoshopdiva.com/articles/Masking.pdf

http://www.photoshopworld.com/selectionskills.pdf

whispies

http://tech-slop.serveit.org/whispies/index.shtml

http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa090501a.htm
http://www.creativepro.com/img/story/ExtractHair.pdf
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutoria...od4/method4.htm
http://www.adobeevangelists.com/pdf...cks/Extract.pdf
http://graphicssoft.about.com/gi/dy...Ftechnique.html

Blending/smoothing border in extraction

http://www.phong.com/tutorials/mask.tree/

Scroll to Tweaking the edges

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=8028311

Simon

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=6637073

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=8113173

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=10613736

http://www.melor.com/projects/selective_dof_tutorial.htm

Bman blend

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=14267440

videos

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=17674364

Sky replacement - fixes

My method:

Kent’s Selective Color sky replacement

Selective color

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5898055

Addendum

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=13348267

Chip ’s excellent tip for clouds with Sel. Color.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=14363249

great tutorial by Stefan using selective color as a helper in sky replacements

http://www.skeller.ch/ps/easy_sky_replacement.php

Selecting sky

***Summary post by me:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=10418005

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4283874

Changing skys

http://www.outdooreyes.com/photo33.php3

storm sky

http://movielibrary.lynda.com /... ...ovieID=3763&chap_num=10&ModID=66

Replace sky with layer

joe filer tut

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=10742370

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5370107

feivel

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5207702

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5607376

Selecting sky

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4283874

Selecting sky -giraffe

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4845317

Blown skies

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4297060

Bill R’s blown sky action

http://www.outdooreyes.com/photo58.php3

George’s sky replacement

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5387586

BillR’s sky replacement and sky enhancement

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5745239

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5757025

Sky fixes

Blend if:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=3637736

tammy’s blend

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=14891509

Clouds

Cloud tutorial

http://www.alpha-shade.com/www/Tut/clouds.htm

stock

http://www.imageafter.com/category.php?sort_by=name&asc_desc=asc&display=240&category=nature_elements&search=search

Clouds sky

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4353285

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5340703

cloud brushes:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5902219

http://share.studio.adobe.com/axQuickSearchSubmit.asp?txt=cloud&allprods=2&submit1.x=23&submit1.y=7

Skies clouds links

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=9835760

http://images.google.com/images?q=wallpaper%2Bclouds&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.imageafter.com/category.php?sort_by=name&asc_desc=asc&display=240&category=nature_elements&search=search ..

Perfect sky action

http://www.keithandgina.com/photoshop/PerfectSkies.html

Creating dof

http://epaperpress.com/psphoto/index.html

Click on focus

Other stuff

Creating DOF with PS

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5177502

Vikki Hansen’s Dreamy Vignette

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=6524153

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=6525215

Andy W’s composite tut

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1009&message=8785432

Blending & Merging images

Blending images

Dynamic range articles at Luminous Landscape:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/blended_exposures.shtml
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/digital-blending.shtml

Blending two (or more) images different exposures

http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/tips/phs7rbrawcreat/main.html

http://dustylens.com/extended_range.htm

http://dustylens.com/luminosity_mask.htm

Here is a good tutorial using layer masking for fading one image into another.

http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/layermask/layermask.htm

Nightshot blend Bob Quinn

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=10003647

Hilight and Shadow merging method

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=6086383

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=6803882

blend if

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=7912279

Blending two (or more) images different exposures

http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/tips/phs7rbrawcreat/main.html

http://dustylens.com/extended_range.htm

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=6486607

Backgrounds – digital backgrounds

Background image to B&W

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=10637348

Background designer

http://www.digitalanarchy.com/backdrop/backdrop_main.html

Blending background

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4540789

Blur background

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4641886

http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/uc/ucjwoods.htm?terms=John+Woods

Digital Backgrounds

Clouds

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4270845

http://www.aaa-backgrounds.com/html/mainback.shtml

http://www.freegraphics.com/07_Backgrounds/

Brian’s marble/slate

http://www.photomorphix.com/Free.htm

Laura’s background brushes

http://wave.prohosting.com/brushes/

free textures – grundge

http://www.mayang.com/textures/Architectural/html/Walls/index.html

http://www.mayang.com/textures/index.htm

http://3dlinks.com/links.cfm?categoryid=10&subcategoryid=94

tut

http://www.ephotozine.com/techniques/viewtechnique.cfm?recid=340

http://www.imageafter.com /

Troy’s texture tut – good one

http://www.digital-existence.com/bgbrush/page1.htm

http://www.insidegraphics.com/photoshop/photoshop_patterns_tutorials.asp

Background

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4157804

Digital Backgrounds with floors

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=10561814

Seamless tilings

http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/tilings/tilings2.htm

Cool color background

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4497297

Custom Burn vignette

http://www.adimaging.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26

Shan’s Shadow eliminator :

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=3979699

Stock images

http://www.sxc.hu /
http://www.morguefile.com /

http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&q=

http://aarinfreephoto.com /

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/resources/stock-photos.html

Photoshop Elements Extraction

PSEII Extraction –Lynch

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5046210

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