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yoshi
Joined: 12 Aug 2005
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 Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:12 pm Post subject: Taking Crystal out of a background |
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I photographed a piece of Sywroski Crystal, with a white background, soft box and another umbrella flash light. Solid White Background with proper WB adjustments on the camera. I am trying to get the background out of this image. The way the crystal is, I have light reflection all over the crystal (an effect that I want to keep) but do not want to see the background as this is going in a publication. Any ideas? I tried the standard path around the object, however it is way too intricate to get all of the jagged edges. Any ideas???
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lasa
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
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Can you show us what you are looking at..A picture is worth a thousand words. If you don't want to because of publication issues can you show us something similar?
Lasa
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Gallo_Pinto
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unlock the Background and right-click > blending options. Under blend if grey, drag the white slider over a bit. Hold ctrl to break it apart, which will help remove hard edges. the only problem with this is it'll also get rid of white inside the crystal, so make a new layer under it and paint some white there. If you want the background completely white, you can just as eaily add a solid colour layer under it.
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yoshi
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Here is the image that I shot. If you think I should re shoot or there is something different to try let me know and I will try.
Thanks for you help...it is greatly appreciated.
If I can find a really good, dependable freelance photo editor, I would be interested in speaking with them about freelance position with a natinal magazine.
Thanks
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Gallo_Pinto
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Probably won't be hard to find one of those here, but it's kinda hard for me to find your picture.
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lasa
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Image is not attached...
Lasa
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yoshi
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Gallo_Pinto
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I got bored after about 8 minutes, but here's where I got to. The thing is, the crystal just doesn't look nice against a white background
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Gallo_Pinto
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here's a black background
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lasa
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Well here's my shot at it...
I cut it out by masking it...lightened it with the adj. curve and screen mode.
I didn't like it floating in thin air so I put it back on its box but blacked out a little...made a little render light spot behind it.
Just an idea...the cutting out is very do-able.
The light greys pick up the back colors nicely.
Fun thanks for sharing.
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