Clipping out a tree in Photoshop...
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- Remixt
....what's your best method? I don't need the finedetails as I am familiar w/ all the tools in PS, just your preferred steps. Refine Edge just sin't cutting it, no pun intended. What would y'all suggest?
- scarabin0
mask palette is bollocks imo.
isolate your tree in channels
- monospaced0
use a color channel to create a layer mask with nice anti-aliasing
- jaylarson0
mask pro
- jensmens0
Not an answer to your question, but http://www.cgtextures.com/ has quite some good hi-res tree cutouts of trees (under nature-trees)
Just to let you know ;)
- jetSkii0
use a green screen first
- orrinward0
Depends on the image, but as mentioned above, isolating the tree using channels is a good method, but this is dependent on the background being noticeably different from the tree - A tree on a sky is easy to remove, a tree in a forest is stupidly hard.
Play with the color modes looking at the channels until you find a good contrast between foreground and background. Duplicate this as an alpha channel and play with curves/levels until the isolation is there. Correct any obvious ommissions/inclusions with clever brushwork, then use this channel as a mask.
- mightyj0
Here are a few options for you. It all depends on the assets you are working with:
1. Done with the background eraser tool: http://bit.ly/g80Boe
2. Done with Channels: http://bit.ly/i46Kpb
3. A hair version that will work with trees as well: http://bit.ly/hZZxpe
4. Another hair version using refine edge in CS5: http://bit.ly/hU40kY
- pillhead0
Fluid Mask is great, bloody hell.
