Cropping out an image..help please

How do I crop out an image to get rid of the background.

For example .... a photo of a person ... I want the person cut out the same way as I would if I took a pair of scissors to the photo. Then I can place the person over top of a completely different background.

I can't seem to find the tools or procedure to do this

Help Please

"Xeroid" wrote in message

How do I crop out an image to get rid of the background.
For example .... a photo of a person ... I want the person cut out the

same

way as I would if I took a pair of scissors to the photo. Then I can

place

the person over top of a completely different background.
I can't seem to find the tools or procedure to do this

Help Please

It all depends on the hoto. If you have a photo of a person with slicked-down hair standing in fromt of a green wall, you can use the magic wand tool to select the background. Then invert the selection and copy/paste the person to a new image.

If on the other hand it is a person with wind-blown hair against a similarly colored background (similar to the hair) the job is real nasty. You must use the laso tool and do it manually, pixel by pixel. There may be a better way but I do not know it.

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Peter Aitken

Remove the crap from my email address before using.

go to quickmask mode and paint on the mask...more exact than the lasso

....but still can be a nasty job

"Peter Aitken" wrote in message

"Xeroid" wrote in message

How do I crop out an image to get rid of the background.
For example .... a photo of a person ... I want the person cut out the

same

way as I would if I took a pair of scissors to the photo. Then I can

place

the person over top of a completely different background.
I can't seem to find the tools or procedure to do this

Help Please

It all depends on the hoto. If you have a photo of a person with slicked-down hair standing in fromt of a green wall, you can use the magic wand tool to select the background. Then invert the selection and

copy/paste

the person to a new image.

If on the other hand it is a person with wind-blown hair against a

similarly

colored background (similar to the hair) the job is real nasty. You must

use

the laso tool and do it manually, pixel by pixel. There may be a better

way

but I do not know it.

--
Peter Aitken

Remove the crap from my email address before using.