Well i just started using photoshop and i made my sig as u can see below, but what abut if i need to crop part of a pic say an american soldier without cropping any of the background. any help would be apretiated
You just have to use the crop tool. It's the black cross thing on the second row of tools, I think.
The crop tool will give you a box around the soldier.. if you want to select just the soldier you need to try the magic wand tool.. it will select around an object based on an algorithm. It may work depending on the contrast of the object to its surroundings.. if that doesn't work then you have to zoom and autodraw a selection using other tools (that i can't exactly remember the names of at the moment)..
Hope this helps
Hope this helps
yeh, with that pic i would use the magic wand tool to select the background surrounding him (as it's basicly one colour, with variations) and then invert the selection so the soldier is selected. then, copy, new and paste.
Inversion, yes.. (forgot about that)FFLink13 wrote:
yeh, with that pic i would use the magic wand tool to select the background surrounding him (as it's basicly one colour, with variations) and then invert the selection so the soldier is selected. then, copy, new and paste.
magnetic lasso is a good way to do it as well...
thanx gonna try them now, i have seen all of these tools but i aint got a clue how to use them ^^
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if that dosnt tell you how to do summin, its probably not worth doing.
incidentally all the previous suggestions are lazy and honesly quite poor ways of cropping images. Look up how to use the pen tool properly and you'll get much crisper results.
if that dosnt tell you how to do summin, its probably not worth doing.
incidentally all the previous suggestions are lazy and honesly quite poor ways of cropping images. Look up how to use the pen tool properly and you'll get much crisper results.
He said he didn't want to remove the background....
what are you on about anyway? not like the pen tool deletes anything...
u wanna select any part of an image with any sort of precision, you use the pen tool, simple as that.
u want a general outline of summin u dont really care about the finish of then you use the lasoo
u wanna select any part of an image with any sort of precision, you use the pen tool, simple as that.
u want a general outline of summin u dont really care about the finish of then you use the lasoo
Last edited by TheEternalPessimist (2006-09-05 07:59:22)
yeah use the Pen tool to create a path around the object. Zoom in on what you want, then just create points in the path eventually clicking on the original starting point to close the path. Then right click on the object inside the path and then select "make selection" i would feather the selection by 1. then go to the select menu and press invert selection, this means that you have selected everything apart from the object u want. Then just hit delete, which will then delete everything apart from the object u want.
ok manged to do it. I used the lasso tool and then as the above dude said inverse selection and i deleted the background.. THANX for the help
The problem i am having i can't move the object .. wtf lol
The problem i am having i can't move the object .. wtf lol
Last edited by rabee2789b (2006-09-05 08:31:43)