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MrTuckerTown
Joined: 05 Jan 2012
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 Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:25 pm Post subject: Marching ants question |
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Let's say I import a PNG or some other type of image with transparency to it. Let's say for this example, it's a pic of snake, isolated, everything around it is transparent. How do I make it so that the marching ants are marching around the snake? |
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jerryb4417
Joined: 20 Dec 2008
Posts: 710
Location: Oklahoma
PS Version: photoshop cs5
OS: win7 pro 64 bit, i7-3.2g, GTS 450,
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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hi,
there several different ways....
1. the simplist ... take your magic wand and set the tolorance setting..
then click on the transparen area and then do a select>inverse ... voila the snake is now selected...
2. you can use the magnetic lasso..... to select the snake
3. if you have it you can use the quick selection tool and use the refine edge tool to make a selection or a mask ...
plus there alot of variation on the above |
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MrTuckerTown
Joined: 05 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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I really like the first option, thanks! |
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jerryb4417
Joined: 20 Dec 2008
Posts: 710
Location: Oklahoma
PS Version: photoshop cs5
OS: win7 pro 64 bit, i7-3.2g, GTS 450,
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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hi,
your welcome...
but you'll find that every image has it own set of difficulties which requires knowing different way to select... this time the magic wand works fine but another image and you may find a different technique/tool is required....
so it important to know a lot of different techniques to select a object...
well anyway you have a good day and good weekend.... |
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thehermit
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
Posts: 3987
Location: Cheltenham, UK
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Let's say for this example, it's a pic of snake, isolated, everything around it is transparent |
Ctrl+click the layer thumbnail?
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jerryb4417
Joined: 20 Dec 2008
Posts: 710
Location: Oklahoma
PS Version: photoshop cs5
OS: win7 pro 64 bit, i7-3.2g, GTS 450,
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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hi thehermit,
that neat..... didn't know about that one thanks for sharing.. |
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Sanman
Joined: 13 Jan 2012
Posts: 1
Location: California
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| thehermit wrote: | | Ctrl+click the layer thumbnail? |
It's rally cool buddy. I am learning Photoshop since 1 month and didn't know about that too. |
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