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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
This was taken at a beach in surf-town Tamarindo. Some women from the community were selling Orchids and I just took a pic. This particular flower grows in many regions but mostly in Central America, South America and Asia.
I took the background out however, just so I could teach some people on here how to take out complex objects from their backgrounds easily. It would just annoy the hell out of me sometimes before I learned this. So I thought I would share.
1) Zoom in as close to the image's edges as it is tolerable to you, take the selection tool and use the magnetic lasso and select around the image.
2) Look under the select menu and choose "smooth" then punch in just 1 pixel. This should make your selection look more fluid.
3) Next, go under the same menu and choose contract or expand depending on if your selecting around or cutting inside an image, your selection should move a tiny bit away or towards the object when you punch in a pixel amount-remember the selection should not exactly out line the object, play around from 1 to 3 pixels, when it asks you to punch in a pixel. This is so you can feather the selection.
4) Again go under the same menu and "feather" (feathering is just a function that allows you to fade the edges of the object when painting around it) the image, play around from 1 to 3, pixels, painting the solid color, not on the image but on a transparent layer, so you can trash your mistakes and start over if you do not like how the feathering looks. This will make the new solid background and image appear more seamless together.
Hope this helps, Rodney. :)
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