Well, I thought I would share my first attempt at extracting an object from it's background. Though it is not perfect, I think it came out rather well.

This is the extracted flower.




And the before picture:



By the way, never knew how much actual work went into this until I actually attempted it. Wow!


Kat

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Good job Kat.

That's excellent.  If you didn't know, you'd think the flower was already in the photo

Lol I see now

Yes, you did a great job there, it's very hard to do.

Exctracting objects can be a very difficult and time consuming job.

One piece of advice I do have for you (if you're using a program that has the functionality) is to go through and feather the edges a bit.  Not a lot, but it does help give it that blended into the background feel like it was supposed to be there.  It will also help get rid of anything you may have missed, it won't delete it of course, but it will help it kind of fade away a bit.  Give that a shot.

Besides that this is an excellent job!  It looks great! Really quite wonderful for a first time.  You definately have a bit of potential and it shows through your detail and the amount of time I'm sure you put into it.  Keep it up.

Also another thing to keep in mine, the best thing to do on bright objects is to use a dark background and vice versa.  Black on light objects, white on dark, it'll make the following steps a bit easier on ya =P Especially if you're using something like a magic wand tool in fireworks.

Thanks for the tips, I appreciate it. My program is able to do feathering, so I will try that out. And the contrast thing is a great tip. I am using Photo Impact Pro 13. Now all I have to do is find the time to play with it.

Kat

If I knew the program I'd give you more advice, sorry I don't.  I personally prefer Adobe Fireworks =]  A lot of people like to use photoshop and use a lot of brushes.  All of my stuff is done by hand =/ The manual way, I hate brushes lol

I VERY rarely use brushes.

I think the only time I use them is if I am stroking along a path, and that's it.

Thats what she said >> Sorry had to xD

I can see as a person gets more advanced, they wouldn't have a whole lot of call for using brushes. But for me, I think it would be a good thing to learn, just in case. Whether I use them or not, I would still know how, if needed. And, I have a feeling every person has to develop what works for them. Just like Sarge prefers fireworks and Bravo prefers photoshop. Different strokes for different folks. It's what makes life interesting.

Kat

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