The EASY Background Remover Hidden in Photoshop!
Mar 22, 2020 10:54:43 #
Mar 22, 2020 11:21:27 #
Thanks for the link Jim. I'm a beginner PS user and need all the help I can get.
Mar 22, 2020 11:52:52 #
Mar 22, 2020 12:15:18 #
Mar 22, 2020 13:19:22 #
jim quist wrote:
I’ve always had a problem with this. He’s good. Thanks for the link. More of his videos HERE.
I think a lot of us will be better at post-processing in a few months when this craziness subsides.
Stay well, Jim.
Mar 22, 2020 14:41:05 #
The way he showed how to make it nondestructive at the end was very interesting. I usually use refine edge in select and mask because the erase background is destructive, but I'll have to try his way.
Mar 22, 2020 15:07:44 #
bleirer wrote:
The way he showed how to make it nondestructive at the end was very interesting. I usually use refine edge in select and mask because the erase background is destructive, but I'll have to try his way.
That's why you work on a layer that's a copy of the original.
Mar 22, 2020 16:32:54 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
That's why you work on a layer that's a copy of the original.
Sure, but usually using erase background if you find out tomorrow you had a little mess up, you have to delete the whole layer and throw away the time you put into it. At the end of the video he showed how to convert it to a layer mask, meaning a little mess up could be easily fixed tomorrow without discarding the rest of the work.
Mar 22, 2020 16:54:35 #
He shows it with a clearly contrasty background where it is easy for the software to tell the difference between the wisp of hair and the background. But when you get into trying to cut out dark wood against a dark wall, with a shadow in between, even getting down to zero tolerance doesn't work. Refine edge doesn't do much better. Hand work in a layer mask is the only way in those tough situations.
Mar 22, 2020 17:01:30 #
IDguy
Loc: Idaho
bleirer wrote:
He shows it with a clearly contrasty background where it is easy for the software to tell the difference between the wisp of hair and the background. But when you get into trying to cut out dark wood against a dark wall, with a shadow in between, even getting down to zero tolerance doesn't work. Refine edge doesn't do much better. Hand work in a layer mask is the only way in those tough situations.
My initial tests of his approach were not successful. I agree that his example, where the background is a relatively uniform color contrasting greatly with the desired image, helps it work well. Most of the images I’d like it for are not that way.
I’ll work on learning how and when to apply it.
Mar 22, 2020 17:14:19 #
IDguy wrote:
My initial tests of his approach were not successful. I agree that his example, where the background is a relatively uniform color contrasting greatly with the desired image, helps it work well. Most of the images I’d like it for are not that way.
I’ll work on learning how and when to apply it.
I’ll work on learning how and when to apply it.
His method to convert to a layer mask has merit. Do as much as the erase background will allow then convert to a mask and finish with hand work.
Mar 22, 2020 17:17:46 #
I like that guy he’s good and I did not know of this tool so I learned a couple good things from the video.
Mar 22, 2020 17:22:51 #
IDguy wrote:
My initial tests of his approach were not successful. I agree that his example, where the background is a relatively uniform color contrasting greatly with the desired image, helps it work well. Most of the images I’d like it for are not that way.
I’ll work on learning how and when to apply it.
I’ll work on learning how and when to apply it.
Yes trying to remove the background from A black cat in a coal mine will be difficult with this tool (or any other).
But it is a good tool to know that can be used to can save time given the right scene.
Mar 23, 2020 14:30:42 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
jim quist wrote:
There is one in Elements, too, but I'm not sure how early (in which edition) it begins
https://www.essential-photoshop-elements.com/background-eraser.html
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