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
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.
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Thank you for the continued interest - My work is such that I have to do an average of 5 head and shoulder pics a day for reproduction on a CNC machine.
It is a slow and cumbersome process using the cut out lab.
After I have used the cut out lab, at the stage where i go to preview, I always seem to retaim much smudging and other rubbish left around the image I need - often taking twice as long to remove the remainder of the rubbish than it does to do the original cut out work.
Is there something I am doing wrong? Why is there so much work again when going to preview?
thank you
hans said:Is there something I am doing wrong?
YES...There are better tools available. If you post a sample pic I can help with extractions. Without seeing exactly the complexity and end result needed, it is difficult to guess what you need.
Hi Mike,
I think the difficulty in my case is that
1. I must do about 5 a day.
2. All are Africans.
3. All must be engraved/lasered on black granite
Thank you for your interest in my problems
That is besides the work i do daily - so time is limited.
Hence my search for greater efficiency in my endeavors.
hans said:I must do about 5 a day.
Here is three minutes for all edits.....Vertus Fluid Mask...
Hans Mike in Canada is Very good at what he does, he may be able to teach us all something.
George
Did you do these?... I do not see any comment or your name.
Fantastically accurate - did you use cut out lab? thereafter draw and eraser?
The next trick is to lighten up the image so that it will show well on a black piece of granite...almost look like a white guy but retain the features of an African.
Please explain your method as used to achieve the included images?
thank you again for your interest,
Mike is in a different timezone so might not be here for a few hours. But he mentioned the program Vertus Fluid Mask which I found at http://www.vertustech.com/fluidMask/features.html
It is not a program I've used, but it looks very interesting -- I would certainly be using it if I needed to do cutouts more often.