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.:Magnetic Lasso Tool:.
.:Lasso Tool:.
.:Eraser:.
.:Magic Wand Tool:.
.:Polygonal Lasso Tool:.
The most basic skill that you need to know before you can start experimenting with Photoshop is cutting out pictures. There are
various ways to do it of course. In this tutorial, I shall be discussing the different ways one can cut out pictures.
*Note: I use Photshop 6.0 (a REALLY old version, I know). The pictures may look a little bit different if you are using another version of Photoshop. Later
versions, should have the same tools; but I'm not so sure about the earlier versions of Photshop.
The Magnetic Lasso tool is complicated to use, unless you yourself has used it. You can find it here:
Select the picture you want to cut out. I have chosen this one that I have taken from vexels.net.
Begin by clicking on the point where you want to begin. Then drag the mouse to the second point. Don't worry, the path of the tool should stick to one color...
Continue cutting patches around the entire object using this tool, and you should have something that looks like this.
The Lasso Tool is the most widely known way to cut out a picture. It is quite difficult to use this technique if you don't have a steady hand, but once you
have mastered this technique, you cut out pictures will look absolutely gorgeous.
Your Lasso Tool should look like this:
Select the picture you want to use. I have chosen a picture that I found on deviantart.com, I DID not make it.
Place your mouse on the area that you want to begin cutting out. Click and drag your mouse to select a portion of the background. A mistake
mose people make is to cut out the entire shape they want to cut out in one go, when in fact it is easier to cut out the background piece-by-piece.
Press backspace to delete the selected area.
To clean up your "cutting", zoom in to the picture and focus on one area first. Select the pixels that you want to cut out, and erase them using the lasso
tool. Do this very carefully.
Once you are done cutting out your picture, you should have something that looks like this.
*Note I used the background color red so that it is easy to distinguish which parts of the pictures I cut and did not cut. It is always very easy
to transfer the part you cut out anyway, by using the Magic Wand Tool to select the now solid-colored background and deleting it to make a transparent
background.
If you�re picture has a solid background, just use the magic wand tool. It looks like this:
Next, open the picture you want to use. In this case, I have chosen this one. It is the picture of the pair of scissors that I have used for this layout.
Then select the magic wand tool and click on the solid colored area. If your picture is like this one (refer to the second picture), and there are parts of the
background that are not selected with the rest; just shift+click that area using the magic wand tool. Now you should have at least 2 selected areas.
Click the backspace on your keyboard to delete all the selected areas.
If you want to cut out everything BUT the background, use the magic wand tool to select the background, then go to the Select menu and under that
there should be an option that says: select Inverse. Press that, and now everything in your picture but the background should be selected. Or to make
finding the "Select Inverse" option simpler, just right-click on your mouse and you should find it easily. Press backspace. [*this technique is very useful
for cutting out silhouettes, shadows, etc.]
Your picture should then look like this.
The polygonal lasso tool is simple to use; and is best used for pictures that have straight edges. Begin by finding the polygonal lasso tool here:
Next, select the picture you want to use. I have chosen this picture I have taken from deviantart.com.
In this case, I want to replace the background of this picture to this one.
You should now proceed to cut out the background of the main picture. Begin by clicking the point where you want to begin cutting out. Next, drag the mouse to the second point. Note that the two red points are marking where I began and where I next clicked; in reality there are no red dots, I just added those so it's easier to distinguish.
Continue this process, but cut out piece by piece. It will be much neater. I have marked red dots on the places where I clicked.
Press the backspace button to delete the selected area.
Continue cutting out small pieces around the picture, until you have something that looks like this. *The red parts are the cut out areas.
Of course, you should clean up the cutting with other tools which you will read about later on in this tutorial. But let's say that you are happy with this outcome.
Next, paste your background image on top of this one as a new layer. Then, just change the layer order to make it the background.
Then delete all the red areas, if you have any; and your new background should appear.
A little color balance, hue and saturation, channel mixer, and image stretching... and you get this.
Using the eraser tool is fairly simple. It can be used to cut out any picture easily, but may take awhile. Though, once finished, the result will be very
nicely cut. As in there won't be any sharp edges, or cut out areas. But be careful, because this technique is tricky. You should be able to find the eraser
tool here:
Select the picture you would like to cut out. The picture I have chosen is a vexel that I found on vexels.net. I DID NOT make it.
Also, I suggest that
you use this technique for pictures that are almost impossible to cut out with the other techniques and you are pretty much desperate. But if you want to
spend time to perfectly (well, as close to perfection as possible) cut out your picture, then go right ahead and use this technique.
Using the eraser tool, click on an area where you want to begin cutting out your picture. Make sure the size of your brush is not too big, neither should it
be too small. The black spot next to the girl's left ankle is where I have chosen to begin.
Place your mouse over an area that is near your starting point and shif+click. Your result should look like this. *Note This technique only works
in straight lines, so be careful not to cut right through a piece of your picture.
Continue working around the object you want to cut out until you have something that looks like this.
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