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Weapon
May 21st, 2001, 02:33
How do you cut the image so that you can barely see the original background. eg. I have a picture and it has a black background and when i pour white on you can still see black spots around the outline of the pic
lucifer
May 21st, 2001, 07:45
always a problem you really want to have the origional so that you can change the b/g and it'll all anti-alias

you can try deleting the darkest edge pixels (or lighten them up) but it'll always look a bit messy
Weapon
May 21st, 2001, 08:07
oh well guess I have to keep my messy pictures. Also my friend did seem to do it some how with corel, but he doesn't tell me how. Just look at they guys in the header banner at this site http://www.geocities.com/planetcapsulecorp . It seems to be cut right to the edges
meow
May 21st, 2001, 18:35
It can work by using the magig wand or the lasso to select small parts of the background at the time and fill them in with a color. + some pixel dotting. It's a hellish work and you of course will lose the bg totally.
hime-chan
May 26th, 2001, 08:34
Well, it's a lot easier for anime pics of course. All anime artists use ink or markers to highlight all edges, so the edges are basically black and can be easily seperated from the background.

It's generally not a problem to get to this effect with a little softening and blurring, though. It's hard to explain, if you want the picture clean, you can give me a URL and I can cut it for you - because I really, really don't have a clue how to explain it ...

:( My coloring skills never get me anywhere when I want them to! Mou.

+ Hime-chan
:) :o :) :o :)
Weapon
May 26th, 2001, 23:42
yeah I know that anime pics are rather easy but sometimes there a those little gap like between the fingers or hair that is rather hard to get right. I just use the eraser way and do a little bit each time, I thought there was an easier way that is why I asked :P
OtakuHero
May 27th, 2001, 01:31
The secret to cuttin very well like how i cut out these high poly figures: http://www.suxxors.com/images/ps.jpg

is you zoom up to 1600% and use the lasso tool and cut away, slow and tedious but highly efficient.
lucifer
May 27th, 2001, 12:12
yeah, do it big

When I do it from photos I'll scan it at about 4x the resolution I want it to end up then you can be sloppy with your erasing and then smooth out the edges (after putting my new background in) and it looks really nice when you shrink it to the wanted size :)

If you have it the size you want it's tricky and if you want to scale up an image I'd say don't bother ;)