Cutting pictures out cleanly and quickly

clipping path. Did you not see my post?

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Hi,

I’m an absolute newby to Photoshop so appreciate any help whatsoever.
I have 1400 photos of various shaped and sized products that I need to cut around so as to remove the background. The shots were taken on a white mat but there is the odd marks here and there to contend with.
I know there’s a lot of ways to do this and would like to hear a few of the better ways so I can choose which is best for me.
There’s a tonne of work so I really appreciate the help.
Also, is there anything I can do with macros that might make the load of 1400 parts easier?

MANY MANY THANKS

Tino

No I didn’t see your post and can’t see it still???? yet I can see this one fine???

What am I doing wrong?

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 04:46:44 GMT, "Bacchus" wrote:

clipping path. Did you not see my post?

wrote in message

Hi,

I’m an absolute newby to Photoshop so appreciate any help whatsoever.
I have 1400 photos of various shaped and sized products that I need to cut around so as to remove the background. The shots were taken on a white mat but there is the odd marks here and there to contend with.
I know there’s a lot of ways to do this and would like to hear a few of the better ways so I can choose which is best for me.
There’s a tonne of work so I really appreciate the help.
Also, is there anything I can do with macros that might make the load of 1400 parts easier?

MANY MANY THANKS

Tino

hmmmm, that’s strange. Something to do with your ISP server maybe. Sometimes my posts do not show up on my screen after hitting header about 20 times. They just dissappear somehow.

Anyways, the clipping path and pen tool is a good bet for what you want to do. Look on the web for a tutorial.

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No I didn’t see your post and can’t see it still???? yet I can see this one fine???

What am I doing wrong?

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 04:46:44 GMT, "Bacchus" wrote:

clipping path. Did you not see my post?

wrote in message

Hi,

I’m an absolute newby to Photoshop so appreciate any help whatsoever.
I have 1400 photos of various shaped and sized products that I need to cut around so as to remove the background. The shots were taken on a white mat but there is the odd marks here and there to contend with.
I know there’s a lot of ways to do this and would like to hear a few of the better ways so I can choose which is best for me.
There’s a tonne of work so I really appreciate the help.
Also, is there anything I can do with macros that might make the load of 1400 parts easier?

MANY MANY THANKS

Tino

ha – there is no way to do anything with macros – good luck!

with that being said – there are a few approaches to this:

1. Use the Heal or Stamp tool and stamp out the imperfections.
2. Use a layer mask (you would have to unlock the image -alt+double click on
the layer and place a white background below it on a new layer). This would prob not be the best because your white background may not be real white and may have different shades.
3. Use the Extract filter.
4. Use the Background eraser tool.
5. Use the Magic Eraser tool.

As far as clipping masks – I don’t know much about those and have rarely used that. But I guess that is an option. I would prob use the Heal or Stamp tool if you are just talking about some slight imperfections.

Yitz

wrote in message

Hi,

I’m an absolute newby to Photoshop so appreciate any help whatsoever.
I have 1400 photos of various shaped and sized products that I need to cut around so as to remove the background. The shots were taken on a white mat but there is the odd marks here and there to contend with.
I know there’s a lot of ways to do this and would like to hear a few of the better ways so I can choose which is best for me.
There’s a tonne of work so I really appreciate the help.
Also, is there anything I can do with macros that might make the load of 1400 parts easier?

MANY MANY THANKS

Tino

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No I didn’t see your post and can’t see it still???? yet I can see this one fine???

What am I doing wrong?

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 04:46:44 GMT, "Bacchus" wrote:

clipping path. Did you not see my post?

The confusion comes because you’ve double posted and cross-posted. Baccus it wasn’t you.

First post was called "Cutting a picture out cleanly" sent by at 1.20pm

Second post was called "Cutting a picture out cleanly and quickly" sent by at 3.04pm

They both appear on 2 newsgroups alt.graphics.photoshop & comp.graphics.apps.photoshop

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I would probably start with using the color range and see if you can’t get most of the background selected that way, then clean up what you have left.

"Yitz" wrote in message

ha – there is no way to do anything with macros – good luck!
with that being said – there are a few approaches to this:
1. Use the Heal or Stamp tool and stamp out the imperfections.
2. Use a layer mask (you would have to unlock the image -alt+double click

on

the layer and place a white background below it on a new layer). This

would

prob not be the best because your white background may not be real white

and

may have different shades.
3. Use the Extract filter.
4. Use the Background eraser tool.
5. Use the Magic Eraser tool.

As far as clipping masks – I don’t know much about those and have rarely used that. But I guess that is an option. I would prob use the Heal or

Stamp

tool if you are just talking about some slight imperfections.
Yitz

wrote in message

Hi,

I’m an absolute newby to Photoshop so appreciate any help whatsoever.
I have 1400 photos of various shaped and sized products that I need to cut around so as to remove the background. The shots were taken on a white mat but there is the odd marks here and there to contend with.
I know there’s a lot of ways to do this and would like to hear a few of the better ways so I can choose which is best for me.
There’s a tonne of work so I really appreciate the help.
Also, is there anything I can do with macros that might make the load of 1400 parts easier?

MANY MANY THANKS

Tino