Photoshopped?

Life Technology
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Would anyone mind looking at this image for me:

Is this photoshopped, or did they take the photo against a white background? If I magnify the edges it looks very clean. I want to know how to do this. Whem I try and use photoshop to do it, it takes ages and looks messy.

Anyone know how to do this sort of thing?

Brian

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I would assume that the picture was taken against a one color back ground and then had the background cut out with that magic wand color selector thing. That’s my guess.

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Too get the sharp edges,you would need to use the pen tool.the magic wand is not the best for getting sharp edges when cutting out images.The shirt would be quite easy to do even if not taken with a pure white background.

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The photo has been altered slightly to remove the shadows on outside edge of the shirt. One artist tried to explain the process to me, when our company made a catalog. Sorry I wasn’t paying much attention to the detail process of removing shadows.

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Hmmm, I’ve started playing with my photos and what has worked for me has been to zoom it to 200% or more and then use the erase tool for the shadows.

Also, I think you could use a white background and not just a wall (I would use something like velvet as recommended by some photog friends) and then clean up the shadows.

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Thanks for the help. I’m trying to figure out a way to do this process as quickly and simply as possible. The one time I tried it took ages with the magic wand and the eraser to clean up the other bits, and still looked pretty bad. That image above ont he other hand, I magnified right up and it still looks clean. i guess I’ll have to experiment again. Ideally i want ot get it down to about a ten minute simple process.

Brian

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You can use “Magnetic Lasso Tool” to select/cut edges accuretly. Change the settings such as edge contrast and frequency to get better results. If you use Magic Wand set tolerance to smaller numbers. Sometimes you can get a perfect cut with 80-90 tolerance. (BTW I use Photshop CS but I think Photoshop 6 and 7 also have Magnetic Lasso tool)

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Any hack can do a decent clean up.

Pictures do still speak a thousand words. However, it’s the words that no longer speak or have been added that say the most about an image.

I would be greatly surprised if some clever boy or girl hadn’t already changed history with the deft use of Photoshop.

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There is a way to do this in 10 minutes or less.

  1. Open your original photo.
  2. Select and copy the entire image.
  3. Paste the copy into a new window.
  4. Select Mode >> Index >> Adaptive, then input 3 to 5 colors. (Make sure there is at least some color difference between the shadow and the object, of course.)
  5. Use the wand tool (and possibly the “select similar” command) to select and copy what has become the shape of the object.
  6. Paste the shape of the object on a new layer over the original photo.
  7. Keeping the shape of the object selected (note: marquee “ants” visible), switch your current working layer to the original photo layer, then copy.
  8. Paste the copy into a new window and you should have just what you wanted.

Note: Before copying your final image (before step #7), you can adjust anti-alias/feathering options of your wand tool to blur the edges more or less.

This procedure can be done in less than 5 minutes.

Who knows, maybe some else knows of an even better way.

Hope this helps.

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In Photoshop the magic wand tool is a lot more powerful than you may think. When you select the tool, you’ll notice a box at the top left that says tolerance and it’s a number. Try messing with the tolerance number and you’ll see that it’s quite easy to be able to select what you want if there is a distinct enough color difference between your background and your subject of interest. The tolerance is essentially a measure of how lax the tool will be with picking edges. If you put the tolerance at 0 for instance, it will only pick that exact color out of the 16.7 available. If however you put it at say maybe 50 it might select a broad range of colors etc… you’ll understand once you toy around with it a bit.

Cheers.

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The problem with that is you still get a fairly substantial problem with jaggies. Not that I have a better way or anything.

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Probably taken against a solid background, then had the background removed by selecting it with the magic wand tool.

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This is photoshopped → Yes, I’ve been digitally enhanced :noway:

It was all dirty, so I had to replace the skintones on my forehead, and I replaced the background with the lassoo tool, then I blurred the edges to make it look natural, oh, and I removed my sister :blush: