Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Cutting Someone Out of Photoshop

I can honestly say, I know an important part of Photoshop! I successfully cut someone out of a JPEG image, saved them as a PNG image, and pasted it into a different image. This is one of the key features in Photoshop as it allows you to create brand new images and designs by combining different pictures. But to do this, I had to find a tutorial and blog.spoongraphics had the perfect tutorial for me. It showed me different ways to cut parts of a picture out and explained what each tool did. So of course I had to find a starting image that was fun enough to use but simple enough to cut. That's where I found this awesome image from Shootout for Soldiers Baltimore!


This was a great picture to use because it only had one person to focus on and no one else in focus. And it's hilarious! Look at it! A guy is wearing lacrosse pads with a sombrero on his helmet! And to start I used the eraser tool to see what it did and it did just as I expected, erased. But it didn't erase very much so I experimented with other tools. That's when I found the background eraser tool. But I couldn't figure that one out so I moved on to the magic eraser tool. By the way, if you're looking for what these tools do, check out my previous post here. The magic eraser tool did a lot but wasn't very specific. So I explored more with the eraser tool and noticed you could change how large the eraser was by clicking in the top left corner. And after about 10 minutes of playing around, I felt I had done a good enough job erasing to move on to the next step.


And the next step was finding an image to use and where to put it. So I thought it would be fun to put him on the Shootout for Soldiers logo and see where he fits. Simple enough, I found a photo that was a JPEG and dragged it into Photoshop. And the finished product is my favorite yet! I think it looks great and it shows I'm really learning Photoshop! And who knows, maybe I'll start to learn more difficult tasks soon!


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