Using Channels to separate an object from its background

[ravells]

Excellent tut, Mid. If you do a lot of extraction work, I cannot recommend 'Fluid Mask' enough. It makes the whole process a breeze and plugs into PS. It's not cheap at £100 though.

It took less than two mins to do the cut out of your cliff image. It's also brilliant with hard to do stuff like hair and fine lattices.

Cheers

Ravs

[Midgardsormr]

Excellent tut, Mid. If you do a lot of extraction work, I cannot recommend 'Fluid Mask' enough. It makes the whole process a breeze and plugs into PS. It's not cheap at £100 though.

Yikes. I'd have to be doing a heck of a lot of extraction to make that worthwhile. And getting paid for it, which I'm not at the moment.

Incidentally, users of Photoshop CS4 may have noticed the absence of the Extract filter, which is also useful in performing this kind of work. Apparently Adobe is under the (erroneous) impression that nobody uses it, so they removed it from the standard installation. It can still be found in an extras folder on the program disc, though.