In the introductory tutorials of Photoshop, the most common thing is to cut out pictures. For beginners, cutting out pictures is more attractive, but it is not easy to really do it well. How to cut out pictures in PS better? ?No single method can solve all cutouts, but a better state can be achieved through a combination of multiple methods. Through my many years of application, I have combined three methods: magnetic lasso, quick mask and channel cutout. Better results can be achieved by combining them.
Rendering
Original image
1. Open the original image in photoshop cs3. Generally, the most difficult part of the character drawing is the hair part, especially the more complicated hair, as shown below. At this time, if you just simply use the magic wand, magnetic lasso, and quick It is difficult to cut out the image well with the main methods such as mask, layer mask, and extraction. How to cut out the image relatively quickly and well? The following is done by combining the channel, magnetic lasso, and fast mask. Cut out complex characters:
2. Double-click the background layer to unlock it.
3. Cut out the hair first, select the “Channels” tab, and click on the red, green, and blue channels respectively to see which channel has darker hair color. Generally, green and blue are longer and darker. Here, choose the blue channel. , as shown below:
4. Make a copy of the blue channel, as shown below:
5. To adjust the “blue copy”, select the menu “Image->Adjustment->Curves”:
6. Adjust the curve as shown below to deepen the contrast of the black areas of the hair.
7. Select the menu “Image->Adjustment->Invert”.
8. Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the “Blue Copy” channel to select the white area. In fact, at this time, you can basically select the hair part.
9. Click the “RGB” channel (or press Ctrl+~), as shown below:
10. Select the menu “Layer->New->Layer via copy” (or press Ctrl+J keys):
11. Get a new layer, as shown in the picture below. Although the character is not complete at this time, the hair part is basically included.
12. First click on layer 0, and then use the magnetic lasso to select most areas of the character except the hair, as shown in the following figure:
13. Click Quick Mask to turn the layer into quick mask editing state:
14. Select the brush tool and make subtle adjustments to the details, as shown below:
15. Then switch the quick mask mode back to the selection state:
16. Select the menu “Layer->New->Layer by copy”:
17. Get new layer 2, as shown below:
18. Merge layer 1 and layer 2, so that you can get a more complete character cutout, as shown below:
19. Finally, we need to do some white edge modification, becauseThere will be a problem of white edges when cutting out images through channels. Create a new layer 2 and fill it with black, as shown in the following figure:
20. Select the menu “Layer->Trim->Remove White Matte”:
21. The effect after removing the white edges is as follows:
22. Click out the eyes in front of the black background layer 2. The final character image effect is as follows:
In the introductory tutorials of Photoshop, the most common thing is to cut out pictures. For beginners, cutting out pictures is more attractive, but it is not easy to really do it well. How to cut out pictures in PS better? ?No single method can solve all cutouts, but a better state can be achieved through a combination of multiple methods. Through my many years of application, I have combined three methods: magnetic lasso, quick mask and channel cutout. Better results can be achieved by combining them.
Rendering
Original image
1. Open the original image in photoshop cs3. Generally, the most difficult part of the character drawing is the hair part, especially the more complicated hair, as shown below. At this time, if you just simply use the magic wand, magnetic lasso, and quick It is difficult to cut out the image well with the main methods such as mask, layer mask, and extraction. How to cut out the image relatively quickly and well? The following is done by combining the channel, magnetic lasso, and fast mask. Cut out complex characters:
2. Double-click the background layer to unlock it.
3. Cut out the hair first, select the “Channel” tab, and click on the red, green, and blue channels respectively to see which channel has darker hair color. Generally, green and blue are longer and darker. Select here Blue channel, as shown below:
4. Make a copy of the blue channel, as shown below:
5. To adjust the “blue copy”, select the menu “Image->Adjustment->Curves”:
6. Adjust the curve as shown below to deepen the contrast of the black areas of the hair.
7. Select the menu “Image->Adjustment->Invert”.
8. Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the “Blue Copy” channel to select the white area. In fact, at this time, you can basically select the hair part.
9. Click the “RGB” channel (or press Ctrl+~), as shown below:
10. Select the menu “Layer->New->Layer via copy” (or press Ctrl+J keys):
11. Get a new layer. As shown in the picture below, although the character is not complete at this time, the hair part is basically included.
12. First click on layer 0, and then use the magnetic lasso to select most areas of the character except the hair, as shown in the following figure:
13. Click Quick Mask to turn the layer into quick mask editing state:
14. Select the brush tool and make subtle adjustments to the details, as shown below:
15. Then switch the quick mask mode back to the selection state:
16. Select the menu “Layer->New->By copying the layer”:
17. Get new layer 2, as shown below:
18. Merge layer 1 and layer 2, so that you can get a more complete character cutout, as shown below:
19. Finally, you need to do some white edge modification, because there will be white edge problems when cutting out images through channels. Create a new layer 2 and fill it with black, as shown in the following picture:
20. Select the menu “Layer->Trim->Remove White Matte”:
21. The effect after removing the white edges is as follows:
22. Click out the eyes in front of the black background layer 2. The final character image effect is as follows: