September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
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128 Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
Selecting Objects
from an Image’s
Background
Selecting Objects from an Image’s
Background
Ever feel the urge to pluck an object out of your photo’s background? For exam-
ple, maybe you want to take an amazing moon shot and stick it in another photo.
The traditional procedure is to make your selection, invert it, and then delete the
rest of the image. But Elements streamlines this process with yet another “Magic”
tool—the Magic Extractor. It works much like the Magic Selection brush in that
you just give Elements a few hints and let the program do the rest. When the Magic
Extractor’s done, your selection is isolated in all its lonely glory, surrounded by
transparency and ready for use on its own. Like the Magic Selection brush, this
tool does a surprisingly good job—most of the time. To conduct your own experi-
ments, download the practice photo (coralbean.jpg) from the “Missing CD” page
at www.missingmanuals.com.
The Magic Extractor has an elaborate dialog box with tools not found elsewhere in
Elements. To see it, go to Image ➝ Magic Extractor (see Figure 5-14). You see a
full-screen dialog box, including a Toolbox on the left side, instructions across the
top, a preview of your image, and a set of controls at right. It looks complicated,
but it’s really just a bunch of easy-to-use options for tweaking what you’ve got
before Elements extracts your object ...
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