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EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
June 24 2012 04:43 GMT
#1
Just spent the last few hours trying to pull an image out of its background on Photoshop. Very hard when none of the functions do what they're supposed to. Around the beginning of this path selection stopped working. Also I don't understand why yet but refine edge just doesn't work. Instead of refining edges it adds color to the background. So yea, /rage gg fuck attempting this for the day.

Did you know, I've fallen through the ground in Mario. Just walking along and boom I fall through the ground to my demise. Software does inexplicable shit when I'm using it.

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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24644 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-24 05:11:15
June 24 2012 05:10 GMT
#2
I'm no photoshop expert, but when I want to remove an object from the background, I move the object over to a transparent window, set the eraser tool to a coarse setting, erase around the object, then set to a finer setting. I repeat this until I am trimming away individual pixels. It's a bit annoying but eventually extracts the object from the background.
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divito
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada1213 Posts
June 24 2012 05:18 GMT
#3
On June 24 2012 14:10 micronesia wrote:
I'm no photoshop expert, but when I want to remove an object from the background, I move the object over to a transparent window, set the eraser tool to a coarse setting, erase around the object, then set to a finer setting. I repeat this until I am trimming away individual pixels. It's a bit annoying but eventually extracts the object from the background.

This. Sometimes, the actual tools in Photoshop make this an easier task, but for trickier images, this is one of the only real solutions I know of. Time-consuming but there's not much else you can do.
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EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-24 05:26:23
June 24 2012 05:25 GMT
#4
On June 24 2012 14:10 micronesia wrote:
I'm no photoshop expert, but when I want to remove an object from the background, I move the object over to a transparent window, set the eraser tool to a coarse setting, erase around the object, then set to a finer setting. I repeat this until I am trimming away individual pixels. It's a bit annoying but eventually extracts the object from the background.


My eraser doesn't appear to do anything. That was the first thing I tried ==

Btw this image is kind of ridiculous. It blends in on the edges so well with massive reflections that I have a hard time telling where the background starts when im zoomed in a bit lol.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-24 05:26:13
June 24 2012 05:26 GMT
#5
oops
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
June 24 2012 05:49 GMT
#6
Oh hey guess what, my eraser was on "magic eraser" whatever the fuck that is. Now it's on normal eraser ;o
Xyik
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada728 Posts
June 24 2012 06:14 GMT
#7
Learn to photoshop, newb. Sorry I didn't mean it. Photoshop is confusing, takes some time to learn. Make suer you don't accidentally do things you didnt' want to do through accidentally pressing hotkeys. Toggling something can screw things up.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
June 24 2012 06:52 GMT
#8
On June 24 2012 15:14 Xyik wrote:
Learn to photoshop, newb. Sorry I didn't mean it. Photoshop is confusing, takes some time to learn. Make suer you don't accidentally do things you didnt' want to do through accidentally pressing hotkeys. Toggling something can screw things up.


Yea I'm not sure why my eraser wasn't the default eraser. I'm assuming there is a hotkey that is very easy to press without knowing it?
Iranon
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States983 Posts
June 24 2012 14:23 GMT
#9
On June 24 2012 15:52 EtherealDeath wrote:
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On June 24 2012 15:14 Xyik wrote:
Learn to photoshop, newb. Sorry I didn't mean it. Photoshop is confusing, takes some time to learn. Make suer you don't accidentally do things you didnt' want to do through accidentally pressing hotkeys. Toggling something can screw things up.


Yea I'm not sure why my eraser wasn't the default eraser. I'm assuming there is a hotkey that is very easy to press without knowing it?


E selects the eraser, shift+E cycles to the next version of eraser. (The same is true for all the other brush selection hotkeys).

For the longest time I couldn't figure out why sometimes Photoshop would stop responding to my commands, and then I realized I had accidentally been hitting Q and switching into quick mask mode...
obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
June 24 2012 21:07 GMT
#10
Software in general has a lot of quirks.

I know that insert in word is supposed to turn on the overtype mode.
A lot of international keyboards have a short option that causes them to go to international mode.

I'm sure it's useful for people who need the advanced features, but it does mess with the average user quite a bit.
I think in our modern age technology has evolved to become more addictive. The things that don't give us pleasure aren't used as much. Work was never meant to be fun, but doing it makes us happier in the long run.
Kukaracha
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
France1954 Posts
June 24 2012 21:11 GMT
#11
Don't use the eraser, use a mask. It's much easier to use.
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