Saving portion of Picture

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Zebediah_Crunch
Aug 6, 2007
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Hi,

What I would like to be able to do is as follows.

Consider a picture of a face on any background.
I would like to be able to cut out the face only and save it as a JPEG or EMF or Gif file so that I can use it in a Delphi programming project . That is, the face only could be placed on a background of my choice Can this be done in Photoshop 7 ?
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chrisjbirchall
Aug 6, 2007
Investigate the "Extract" filter.
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Ed_Hannigan
Aug 6, 2007
Yes, quite easily. Make a selection around the face using Extract or a Lasso or the Pen or what have you. Copy. File>New. Paste. Save in whatever format you wish. You might want to use Save for Web for jpg or gif. Not sure Photoshop will save in EMF.
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Zebediah_Crunch
Aug 7, 2007
Thanks for both replies.
I’ll try each of them.
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Don_McCahill
Aug 7, 2007
Be aware that you cannot do the CSI trick of taking the small image out of a crowd shot, and then enlarge it to a full size and have it sharp. Enlarging (upsampling) will result in a blurrier image. You can sharpen and do some things to make it better, but it will never be as good as you see happening on TV or in the movies.
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Zebediah_Crunch
Aug 7, 2007
Thanks Don,
I think I’ve only taken about two photographs in my life so most of this is a mystery to me.
It is possible to cut out a section of a photo in microsoft paint and save it to another file. I just thought that a top package like Photoshop would have a one-click way of doing this.
Naive, I suppose.

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