OK, that’s pretty simple, actually— you’re not looking (evidently) for a lot of precision
Duplicate your background layer and hide the original
Start by using the crop tool — if you’re using version seven it’s the third one down from the top on the left side of the toolbar and drag out a rectangle that encompasses the entire rug, but as little of the surrounding area as possible.
When you get it adjusted, click the checkmark icon on the top right hand side of the tool options bar that runs across the screen right under the menus.
Now, in your picture, because of the camera angle
you’re going to have to reshape to get it back to a rectangular shape — that means using the free transform.
Press CTRL+T and you’ll see a bounding box around the rectangle you cut out of the layer
Transform has several modes. You can change mode by right-clicking and selecting the one you want from th context menu)
Scale (grab any handle to make it larger or smaller)
Skew (grab the center handles on any side to turn a rectangle into a parallelogram)
Rotate (self evident, except that you click OUTSIDE the bounding box to get a curved arrow icon)
Distort- (which allows you to grab any corner and drag it to the proper position)
and
Perspective- (which transforms rectangles to trapezoids– if you grab a corner and pull out,
the opposite corner moves outward as well, push in, and the opposite corner moves in)
You may want to use guides to line your corners up.
When you’re done, click the checkmark icon on the
top right hand side of the tool options bar that runs across the screen right under the menus.
When you are done, you may want to re-crop the image.
Have fun
"deepak" wrote in message
Hello JP, below is example of what I want to be able to do.
http://www.karyasoft.com/JAI000002.jpg (Original)
http://www.karyasoft.com/JAI000002_oe.jpg(End products)
What are the steps I can take to convert such original photo’s to the end product? Thanks & Best Regards, Deepak
"JP Kabala" wrote in message
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Is the rug rectangular? Have you tried the crop tool? Or the selection tools?
There are about a dozen different ways to do this, but it depends on
a) what the original photo looks like (perspective, composition, etc)
b) what you want to do with the resulting image
c) how much contrast there is between the floor and the rug
If you can post the image somewhere and post a link, I can give you a more intelligent answer.
"deepak" wrote in message
Hi! I am New to photoshop & want help.
The digital photo(jpg) has the rug & the surrounding floor showing as well. What I want to do is cut the digital photo(jpg) & create a new one that will have only the rug without the floor/surroundings etc.
Simple steps/tips would be very much appreticated.
Thanks & Best Regards,
