I wanted to be able to abstract a subject from a cluttered background.
Started with:
and after an hour or more experimenting ended with:
I need to practice working with selections and layers as I seemed to spend ages going round in ever decreasing circles and back tracking through most of the things I had done.
Even with the selection tools in CS6 it takes for ever. Send me a Tiff file and I'll run as a comparison.
ReplyDeleteAdrian: The selection mask was pretty quick and easy. It was working out how to paste the selection on a transparent background which took me ages. I kept doing the wrong thing and having to undo and try again. Otherwise it would probably have only taken about 15 mins to mask, copy, paste, fill and vignette.
DeleteYou can comp that sparrow into a scene from Star Wars or Lord of the Rings now!
ReplyDeleteThis sort of thing:
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