ClintO
16th December 2005, 02:59 PM
I am using an old family photo as a lesson in playing around with Macromedia Fireworks.
I normally just deal with fairly regular shapes and can remove the background fairly easily, particularly becasue I try to take the photos against a background of fairly uniform colour. I usually deal with products not external scenes.
This is my first attempt at dealing with people against an exterior at Port Arthur. There is a lot of contrast and many colours and shades and I cant get a good edge.
So far I have tended to use the magic wand tool for large expanses of a single colour and then trim with the eraser tool, but it looks really crappy.
Is there a common technique that is used for doing this? Perhaps the lasso, but it would requires hundreds and hundreds of points to define the edge.
Clint
I normally just deal with fairly regular shapes and can remove the background fairly easily, particularly becasue I try to take the photos against a background of fairly uniform colour. I usually deal with products not external scenes.
This is my first attempt at dealing with people against an exterior at Port Arthur. There is a lot of contrast and many colours and shades and I cant get a good edge.
So far I have tended to use the magic wand tool for large expanses of a single colour and then trim with the eraser tool, but it looks really crappy.
Is there a common technique that is used for doing this? Perhaps the lasso, but it would requires hundreds and hundreds of points to define the edge.
Clint