It seems like a lot of people have an idea for a stick template or other random art piece, and instantly find a need to cut out the character from the image. Lets get serious people… the magic wand and eraser are not meant to cut out art. Instead, use the Pen tool. It’s easier, mistakes are easily reversed, and you’re basically left clicking over and over rather than dragging a mouse around a high res image that your computer cannot handle. If you know how to play Connect-the-Dots, you can do this.
With a little filter magic, your crappy screen capture can be made into a nice template or wallpaper with a nicer looking image than when you started.
Hope this tutorial helps a lot of you, and inspires more to experiment with the infinite possibilities Photoshop programs have to offer.
@Evelgest: I just learned that rendering is synonymous with removing the background. :bgrin:
Awesome job Aoi. Tuts like this are much appreciated and useful. Thanks for taking the time to make this. Hopefully one of the Mods can link your thread in the Stickies.
Yeah, does take some patience. Gotta constantly zoom in and out to make sure you’re following the image correctly @@. I usually put my headphones on, crank up some music, and just let it work itself.
There’s other images that just don’t cut right (like the ink splatter SFIV art), you can’t expect to pen out every little splatter of ink. I did develop a cool method to cut some of their backgrounds, but it’s bit more complicated. 95% of my cutouts use this method though, with another 4% actually having a nice key color(green) to easily select, and 1% being complicated (in which case I tend to pass on the artwork).
Glad you guys liked it ^^~ too many typos for my liking, but PS ain’t MS Word, lmao.
