Hail the reader,
Removing the background from a picture.
I am reasonably au fait with the use of the cut out lab method for removing the photo background, however I visited a laser company and the person there used the bezier tool very effectively, pulling the nodes around the head and shoulders of the picture and so eliminating the background.
Can somebody please tell me if there is a good tutorial on this - like
1. do this2. do this etc
Preferably a pdf which I can read as I go.
If not can some one tell me how I may learn to do this?
Thank you
hans said:Can somebody please tell me if there is a good tutorial on this...
Hi Jeff,
I believe you have a macro which can remove backgrounds to a photo, leaving say a head shoulders of the person we require to engrave - please tell me more.
Hans
hans said:I believe you have a macro which can remove backgrounds to a photo, leaving say a head shoulders of the person we require to engrave - please tell me more.
Hello Jeff,
Thank you for the quick response/help.
My main function (90%+) is to remove a face from a family photograph and use that face only in the work I do.
So the backgrounds tend to be pretty much multi-coloured possibly going right through the 256 range.
I could convert to grey scale, as I use all my completed work in grey scale only, no colours.
The photos I work from are all coloured photos to begin with.
Do you have anything that may be more suitable for my purpose... even perhaps make a macro that may work.
I am not a computer geek, so please excuse if this is a ridiculous statement.
hans said:Do you have anything that may be more suitable for my purpose... even perhaps make a macro that may work.
Nice to find honest people - certainly has me by the .... and curlies - but I'll learn in due time.
Hello Hans; The Cut Out Lab in PP is not hard to learn.You have the HELP at the top of the screen on the Menu. I took and played with three different pictures before I got it where I was Happy with it. The screen Shot below is of a duster that I took off a clients picture that was in her hand and done a little dressing up, the black line is the top of the business card I was making.
George
Thank you for the encouragement... I am working hard at it, but the result you have is excellent - I am sure I'll get there.
My need is slightly different... I engrave photographs on black marble - I use the contrast enhancing tool and also the
"invert" facility as the engraving on black - of mostly our indigenous people who are black - can pose a bit of a challenge.
I invert the image so that the black becomes white and when engraved I get a positive on the black stone.
Thank you for the interest,
TheSign Guy said: Hello Hans; The Cut Out Lab in PP is not hard to learn.
Hello Hans; The Cut Out Lab in PP is not hard to learn.
George - please read his original post. He already uses the Cutout Lab. He's looking for alternatives.
The Lab works well in some situations, not so well in others. There are times when using the bezier tool is more efficient - like when you have a dark subject against a dark background, for example. And the tool itself isn't really that difficult to use - it just takes practice. Once you learn it, it can do amazing things, far beyond cutting objects out of photos.
Personally I use both methods - and I'm happy Corel offers the choice.