Cropping – around an image

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Marko.Zupan
Jun 27, 2007
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I am trying to crop out an image in Photoshop, but seem to be confined to simple shapes. For example: I want to cut out a car, in order to remove the background and drop it into another file. I’ve tried the lasso method, but it seems extremely tedious. Am I missing an easier way?
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Phosphor
Jun 27, 2007
First, a terminology lesson:

"Cropping" ALWAYS means to trim away one or more of the vertical or horizontal sides of an image. The result is ALWAYS a smaller rectangular image, with 4 – 90° angles. ALWAYS.

What you want to do is mask, isolate, extract an oddly shaped portion of your image. The oddly shaped element that is isolated from a larger image will ALWAYS be bounded by a rectangular area. Whether that area is visible, or transparent, depends on the method being used to isolate it, and the file format of the document being edited. For example, .PSD and others support transparency; JPEG and others will not show any transparency.

For just about everything you need to know about isolating one element of an image from the rest of it, please see the following thread, and follow the links. There’s really too much to explain, over and over again, and that’s why ‘ve gathered a lot of info in this one place. Please click the following link and do some studying. If you get stuck on specifics, please reply back here and explain what you’re trying to do:

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Christine_Krof_Shock
Jun 29, 2007
Phos…Should I break out the rubylith…this guy doesn’t know what tedious is!!!!

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