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Extracting an object or person from it’s background

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Extracting an object or person from it’s background

Here we explore the many methods of extracting an Image from it's background or highlighting the image by using DOF and other methods. Make your main subject stand out and even place it in a pleasant background. Some extractions are relatively easy, some quite difficult (such as wispy hair).

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Video Tutorials (for the most part, free)

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Russell Browns Advanced Extraction method - Video Tutorial, NICE!!!!

Russell Browns Advanced Extraction Method Video Tut link + comments and discussion

Extracting - A video tutorial - Actual link is in this post

Making selections with the pen tool, video tutorial - Link and discussion

Bill Callis Knockout Video Tutorial - Select Photoshop Tutorials on the left or play Video HERE

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Image Extract Tutorial

Photoshop Selections Intro

From:

27. Better results with Extraction.
Missing a few chunks of your proposed selection after doing an extraction? Try duplicating the layer a few times and you’ll see wonderful improvements to the edges. Then merge these layers for your final result. I learned this technique at PhotoshopWorld East Miami.

Text Tutorials, discussions and comments

Pen Tool - 2 part Tutorial - scroll down and select part 1 and part 2 - Digital Illusions Explained site

Removing Background - 5 methods at About.com

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Separating an Object from it's background

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Another extraction method - From a discussion on this subject

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Using extractions to create Digital Scrapbooks

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Digital Scrapbooking: Fun with Extractions

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Extractions in Photoshop

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The following are for difficult extractions such as Hair .

Thanks to Danny Raphael for these links. Danny’s Post with these links is here

These may help. They address a technique called "channel masks" for making difficult selections.

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Be forewarned: If a selection is difficult, there's usually no quick and easy way to mask it. But in some cases a channel mask will reduce the overall pain and increase the final results.

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Channel Masking Technique .pdf file from Photoshop Diva site

Basic Channel Masking From Retouch Pro Site

Creating Selections from Cannels From Nature Photographers Site

Calculations and Masking Dpreview discussion beginning with Pam R

Channel Masking Dpreview by Pam R, Discussion

When Compositing gets Hairy Creative Mac Tutorials

Masking Fine Hair from a Similar Color Background Photoshop Techniques Site

Wispy Hair: Knockout or Overprint From Graphic Design Site

Wispy Hair: Follow Up From Graphic Design Site

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Backgrounds and Extractions - This list Compiled and Created by Kent C over at DPReview Retouch Forum. Quite extensive!

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Backgrounds & Extractions

 

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

VG

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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Some hair extraction links passed on by Kent C.

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Post by Kent C. with links

 

Extraction links referred to by Kent C.

More links by Kent C! - Over 40 links

 

Masking hair

 

Martin Evening

Go here and select Martin Evening’s .pdf

 

Katrin’s extraction - Hot link to Katrin’s .pdf file

 

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

 

 

 

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