Flamingo
White Bird
1. Pink Flamingo Unedited: 10-23-09; Sea World, CA; F/4.4; 1/250; Canon Powershot
2. Pink Flamingo Edited: Complete cutout with refined edges on white
3. White Bird Unedited: 10-23-09; Sea World, CA; F/3.5; 1/320; Canon Powershot
4. White Bird Edited: Partial cutout with refined edges on white
5. White Bird Edited: Partial cutout with refined edges on white
To create cutouts, you start by opening the original photo file in Photoshop. The quick selection tool is great when creating cut outs. For a whole cut out, using the tool, highlight the whole subject. I did it roughly and zoomed in with the tool to clean it up. Because it is hard to be exact, after i had my selection and created a new file, I refined the edges. I increased the radius slightly, smoothed out the edges and featured them. This made the lines look much cleaner. I did two partial cut outs. On the first, I used the rectangular marquee tool and deleted the contents. This didn't look the best to me so I did another partial by cutting out the bird and rock. This looked much better.
Wow. the Flamingos are stunning. Both in the cut out and the group pictures of them. The way you captured not only the birds but also the reflection in the water and the trees behind them.
ReplyDeleteGood job on your cutouts. It looks like the flamingo would have been a hard one to do, but you did a nice job of making a clean selection. I also really like the variety of locations and subjects you used for your selection. It is a good mixture of people, places, and things. A few suggestions would be to play around with your lighting and don't be afraid to get real close up to add interest.
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