Selections ????

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Herb
Jan 11, 2004
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I’m having a problem making a selection. I want to remove the background from this photo of my granddaughter. I have worked on this about a week now to no avail. Sometimes I think I have it until I place a dark background in, then you see all the fringe. I want a very clean selection. I am using Photoshop 7 on a PC.
My photo http://www.mygraphicsite.com/photoshop/images/abby1.jpg

Herb

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jrzyguy
Jan 11, 2004
Herb…try this approach ….create a new layer with a dark fill and place it under your the photo you are working on. That way you can see what your end results might look like. If you know your exact RGB, CMYK or PMS color you are going to use as your output…you can always use those values for your new "background" layer (not to be confused with the automatic background layer you get in PS).

hope that helps ya a bit

"Herb" wrote in message
I’m having a problem making a selection. I want to remove the background from this photo of my granddaughter. I have worked on this about a week
now
to no avail. Sometimes I think I have it until I place a dark background
in,
then you see all the fringe. I want a very clean selection. I am using Photoshop 7 on a PC.
My photo http://www.mygraphicsite.com/photoshop/images/abby1.jpg
Herb

-xiray-
Jan 12, 2004
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:48:16 -0500, "jrzyguy" wrote:

Herb…try this approach ….create a new layer with a dark fill and place it under your the photo you are working on. That way you can see what your end results might look like. If you know your exact RGB, CMYK or PMS color you are going to use as your output…you can always use those values for your new "background" layer (not to be confused with the automatic background layer you get in PS).

hope that helps ya a bit

Herb:

What you’re doing is actually a rather tedious procedure. To get rid of that fringe using a black background as suggested above is the first step. Then you really need to zoom in close and edit the fringe area. A good technique would be to use the clone tool to recolor those fringe pixels so that they look like then belong to the subject’s hair, clothing, skin. Or erase them.
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Herb
Jan 12, 2004
Thank you all, we found a tutorial that solved the problem.

Herb

"Herb" wrote in message
I’m having a problem making a selection. I want to remove the background from this photo of my granddaughter. I have worked on this about a week
now
to no avail. Sometimes I think I have it until I place a dark background
in,
then you see all the fringe. I want a very clean selection. I am using Photoshop 7 on a PC.
My photo http://www.mygraphicsite.com/photoshop/images/abby1.jpg
Herb

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Branko Vukelic
Jan 12, 2004
Herb wrote:

Thank you all, we found a tutorial that solved the problem.
Herb

"Herb" wrote in message
I’m having a problem making a selection. I want to remove the background from this photo of my granddaughter. I have worked on this about a week
now
to no avail. Sometimes I think I have it until I place a dark background
in,
then you see all the fringe. I want a very clean selection. I am using Photoshop 7 on a PC.
My photo http://www.mygraphicsite.com/photoshop/images/abby1.jpg
Herb

So, what was the issue?


Branko Vukelic ()
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Hecate
Jan 13, 2004
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:23:15 +0100, "Branko Vukelic" wrote:

Herb wrote:

Thank you all, we found a tutorial that solved the problem.
Herb

"Herb" wrote in message
I’m having a problem making a selection. I want to remove the background from this photo of my granddaughter. I have worked on this about a week
now
to no avail. Sometimes I think I have it until I place a dark background
in,
then you see all the fringe. I want a very clean selection. I am using Photoshop 7 on a PC.
My photo http://www.mygraphicsite.com/photoshop/images/abby1.jpg
Herb

So, what was the issue?

Just hijacking your post 🙂

The easiest way to deal with the fringing is Select/Modify/Contract – usually a pixel depth of 2 or so is enough to make the fringing go away.



Hecate

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Charles Marinaro
Jan 13, 2004
Hecate wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:23:15 +0100, "Branko Vukelic" wrote:

Herb wrote:

Thank you all, we found a tutorial that solved the problem.
Herb

"Herb" wrote in message

I’m having a problem making a selection. I want to remove the background from this photo of my granddaughter. I have worked on this about a week
now

to no avail. Sometimes I think I have it until I place a dark background
in,

then you see all the fringe. I want a very clean selection. I am using Photoshop 7 on a PC.
My photo http://www.mygraphicsite.com/photoshop/images/abby1.jpg
Herb
So, what was the issue?

Just hijacking your post 🙂

The easiest way to deal with the fringing is Select/Modify/Contract – usually a pixel depth of 2 or so is enough to make the fringing go away.



Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui
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There is a defringe setting in Image Menu.
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Fred Athearn
Jan 16, 2004
See http://www.sketchpad.net/defringe1.htm

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:48:06 GMT, Charles Marinaro
wrote:

to no avail. Sometimes I think I have it until I place a dark background
in,

then you see all the fringe. I want a very clean selection. I am using Photoshop 7 on a PC.

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