Photoshop Tip :: Some of you NEED to learn this. (PICS) - GoFuckYourself.com

iwantchixx · 04-01-2005, 01:10 AM

I see it all the time. Nice galleries, nice content, and a nice tour when it's pay sites.

But then I look at the header again and any time a girl is cut out and put in the header graphics it looks like someone used fabric shears to cut her out and the skin is all grainy because you had to compress the images to make the page loadable.

Do you know how to do it properly or are you just lazy and don't think it really matters? It does matter. If your site header looks like the cookie monster cut it out then people get a bad impression.

For this tutorial I will use an image from the mobbucks promotional tools. To sign up for mobbucks please click the banner in my sig. Much appreciated.

1) Chose your image. Find one with general good composition and no extremely bright or extremely dark backgrounds.

2) Next, lets correct the brightness and colors. Go to Image, Adjustments, Brightness/Contrast and set +18 on brightness and +11 on contrast. Depending on your image the values will be different. You want it to 'pop' and look sharp. Now, by adding contrast things tend to redden a bit. So go to Image, Adjustments, Hue/Saturation. Chose "reds" from the menu and set saturation to -14.

3) lets clean her up a bit. Select the healing brush tool. Select 7 for size, hardness at 34% and spacing at 25%. Hold down your Alt key and chose an ear next to one of the moles and click the left mouse button. Now let go of the Alt key and rub the mole with your left mouse button then let the button go. Repeat for each mole, stretch mark, blemish or oily bright skin patch such as on her nose. Sometimes you will find that when you are rubbing an area that is next to a dark patch of pixels that it will create a dark grey patch. To combat this just use the lasso tool and select as close tot eh dark pixels a possible and also select a large enough area to do the Alt-click thing then rub the blemish or mole.

4) In your history swatch click the Middle icon at the Bottom then click the new history save point. This gives you a spot to go back to should you mess something up and need to go back some. Do this often. After a good dozen actions have been performed.

Your image should look something like this

5) Now lets cut her our from the background. In your layers pallet drag and drop the layer onto the "Create New" incon which is the second from the right. Next hide the original layer and select the new layer.

To do this there are many ways of cutting out objects but the most effective and accurate is to zoom in, select the eraser tool and set it 5 pixels feathered. Click an area right on the edge of her skin then while holding the shift key move it along the edge to another close point about 20 pixels away and click the left mouse button again then move another 20 pixels and while holding the shift key click the mouse button again etc etc etc until you are finished. You may need to use the lasso tool to get into tight corners. Get as close as you can but leave some of the "fuzz" left. if you leave a jagged edge that you are not happy with on a curve then select about 20 pixels diagonally across from the jagged piece them move another 40 pixels in opposite diagonal directions and using shift key click the mouse button. I think you guys get the point with how to cut her out now. Don't forget to remove the excess background with the lasso tool.

6) Now to get rid of those fuzzies all around the cutout. Hold down the CTRL key and click the layer in the layers pallet. You should now have a selection around your cutout. Go to Select then Feather and chose 2. Click the lasso tool button then right click your selection and chose 'Inverse Selection' then click the delete Key. One click should do it but sometimes 2 is needed. You now have a perfect cutout.

Your image should look something like this.

7) Make a new history save point as described in step 4.

8) Now, lets make her skin nice and smooth. There are two reasons for doing this. One being that it drops the file size down when compressed and also stops the image from getting grainy when compressed. Select the magic wand tool and start by setting tolerance to 15. Chose a spot on her chest and click it. Now, while holding down the shift key at all times select the rest of her skin. Don't get every little piece. Leave her hair alone, the cock alone and the nose, eye lashes, eyebrows and dark creases in her hands and around her nose alone. Not every pixel of teh selected area needs to be selected. Leaving a few spots left unselected here and there leaves a more natural look to her. Now go to Filter, Blur and chose Gaussian Blur. 1.1 radius should do fine.

9) Resize the image to the size you need it in your graphics. I'll resize it to 300x200 for the sake of the tutorial. Next, go to Filter, Sharpen ..Sharpen. This may create grains to appear on certain parts of her face and the edges of her skin. Also, it may appear where the skin meets hair. To combat this, zoom in and select the area with the lasso tool then repeat the Blur as described in step 8. Do this until her skin looks uniform and smooth.

10) Repeat step 6 if necessary but only use a 1 pixel feather.

11) Zoom in at the edges of the cutout and repair any darkened or jagged edges using the eraser tool.

12) You now have your graphic cutout for your header, banner, whatever etc etc etc. Minor repairs may need to be done to the outline of the cutout once you drop the cutout into your graphics.I haven't bothered to do the minor repairs in this step because, well... It all depends on what the background is going to be.

Enjoy!

Link to tutorial for bookmarking.

johnnyhey · 04-01-2005, 01:14 AM

seems like a lotta photoshopping of a girl with a dick in her mouth.

iwantchixx · 04-01-2005, 01:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnnyhey

seems like a lotta photoshopping of a girl with a dick in her mouth.

Takes 45 seconds to do. Worth it

Nembrionic · 04-01-2005, 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnnyhey

seems like a lotta photoshopping of a girl with a dick in
her mouth.

That's what seperates the men from the boys.

jamesonxx · 04-01-2005, 01:20 AM

Oh man, that pic is hot.

kowntafit · 04-01-2005, 01:30 AM

i wish i was the guy she's sucking on

Dynamix · 04-01-2005, 01:41 AM

Much easier to use Layer Masks.

Open image. Adjust for color correction, blemishes, etc.

Layer > Add Layer Mask

Select the Brush Tool and use an Airbrush Soft Round brush. Set black as your foreground color and begin brushing - the background will disappear. Start with a larger brush (85-145px) and work your way down to finer brushes (5-1px) as you get closer to the outline.

woj · 04-01-2005, 01:47 AM

nice tutorial

xclusive · 04-01-2005, 01:50 AM

Nice tutorial and after getting used to a techniqe like this it only takes a minute to do them on a regular basis

spideriux · 04-01-2005, 12:07 PM

wow very nice tutorial

Nylz · 04-01-2005, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nembrionic

That's what seperates the men from the boys.

Tala · 04-01-2005, 12:40 PM

Nice tut! Thank you for sharing.

Barefootsies · 04-01-2005, 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iwantchixx

I see it all the time. Nice galleries, nice content, and a nice tour when it's pay sites.

But then I look at the header again and any time a girl is cut out and put in the header graphics it looks like someone used fabric shears to cut her out and the skin is all grainy because you had to compress the images to make the page loadable.

Do you know how to do it properly or are you just lazy and don't think it really matters? It does matter. If your site header looks like the cookie monster cut it out then people get a bad impression.

For this tutorial I will use an image from the mobbucks promotional tools. To sign up for mobbucks please click the banner in my sig. Much appreciated.

1) Chose your image. Find one with general good composition and no extremely bright or extremely dark backgrounds.

2) Next, lets correct the brightness and colors. Go to Image, Adjustments, Brightness/Contrast and set +18 on brightness and +11 on contrast. Depending on your image the values will be different. You want it to 'pop' and look sharp. Now, by adding contrast things tend to redden a bit. So go to Image, Adjustments, Hue/Saturation. Chose "reds" from the menu and set saturation to -14.

3) lets clean her up a bit. Select the healing brush tool. Select 7 for size, hardness at 34% and spacing at 25%. Hold down your Alt key and chose an ear next to one of the moles and click the left mouse button. Now let go of the Alt key and rub the mole with your left mouse button then let the button go. Repeat for each mole, stretch mark, blemish or oily bright skin patch such as on her nose. Sometimes you will find that when you are rubbing an area that is next to a dark patch of pixels that it will create a dark grey patch. To combat this just use the lasso tool and select as close tot eh dark pixels a possible and also select a large enough area to do the Alt-click thing then rub the blemish or mole.

4) In your history swatch click the Middle icon at the Bottom then click the new history save point. This gives you a spot to go back to should you mess something up and need to go back some. Do this often. After a good dozen actions have been performed.

Your image should look something like this

5) Now lets cut her our from the background. In your layers pallet drag and drop the layer onto the "Create New" incon which is the second from the right. Next hide the original layer and select the new layer.

To do this there are many ways of cutting out objects but the most effective and accurate is to zoom in, select the eraser tool and set it 5 pixels feathered. Click an area right on the edge of her skin then while holding the shift key move it along the edge to another close point about 20 pixels away and click the left mouse button again then move another 20 pixels and while holding the shift key click the mouse button again etc etc etc until you are finished. You may need to use the lasso tool to get into tight corners. Get as close as you can but leave some of the "fuzz" left. if you leave a jagged edge that you are not happy with on a curve then select about 20 pixels diagonally across from the jagged piece them move another 40 pixels in opposite diagonal directions and using shift key click the mouse button. I think you guys get the point with how to cut her out now. Don't forget to remove the excess background with the lasso tool.

6) Now to get rid of those fuzzies all around the cutout. Hold down the CTRL key and click the layer in the layers pallet. You should now have a selection around your cutout. Go to Select then Feather and chose 2. Click the lasso tool button then right click your selection and chose 'Inverse Selection' then click the delete Key. One click should do it but sometimes 2 is needed. You now have a perfect cutout.

Your image should look something like this.

7) Make a new history save point as described in step 4.

8) Now, lets make her skin nice and smooth. There are two reasons for doing this. One being that it drops the file size down when compressed and also stops the image from getting grainy when compressed. Select the magic wand tool and start by setting tolerance to 15. Chose a spot on her chest and click it. Now, while holding down the shift key at all times select the rest of her skin. Don't get every little piece. Leave her hair alone, the cock alone and the nose, eye lashes, eyebrows and dark creases in her hands and around her nose alone. Not every pixel of teh selected area needs to be selected. Leaving a few spots left unselected here and there leaves a more natural look to her. Now go to Filter, Blur and chose Gaussian Blur. 1.1 radius should do fine.

9) Resize the image to the size you need it in your graphics. I'll resize it to 300x200 for the sake of the tutorial. Next, go to Filter, Sharpen ..Sharpen. This may create grains to appear on certain parts of her face and the edges of her skin. Also, it may appear where the skin meets hair. To combat this, zoom in and select the area with the lasso tool then repeat the Blur as described in step 8. Do this until her skin looks uniform and smooth.

10) Repeat step 6 if necessary but only use a 1 pixel feather.

11) Zoom in at the edges of the cutout and repair any darkened or jagged edges using the eraser tool.

12) You now have your graphic cutout for your header, banner, whatever etc etc etc. Minor repairs may need to be done to the outline of the cutout once you drop the cutout into your graphics.I haven't bothered to do the minor repairs in this step because, well... It all depends on what the background is going to be.

Enjoy!

Link to tutorial for bookmarking.

Agreed.

pornguy · 04-01-2005, 01:05 PM

Nice teach there. One little trick is, that the closer you zoom into the pixels, the better that you can do erasing.

iwantchixx · 04-01-2005, 01:15 PM

I used to use layer masking but found it was more time consuming than the eraser

Za Ha · 04-01-2005, 01:19 PM

First press ctr-alt-shift-L
Next Adjust the Levels to +15 +11
Next use the background eraser and then jus make the image smaller.

tranza · 04-01-2005, 01:25 PM

Too much trouble...

Bruce_Miller · 04-01-2005, 01:31 PM

nice tutorial, thanks!

TheHatchet · 04-01-2005, 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iwantchixx

The most effective and accurate is to zoom in, select the eraser tool and set it 5 pixels feathered.

I have to disagree. When you want to be precise with quality in mind, the path tool, a tool not a lot of people know how to use correctly.

RedShoe · 04-01-2005, 01:39 PM

nice. There are many ways to achieve a cut out look... what I want to know is.. why give away info that could be used to set you apart from other designers? I don't claim to be a designer, but I can do it. I know many.. many tricks for cutting pics out, my favorite way is to adjust colors with level adjustments as well as brightness & contrast and hue & saturation for more control. And I use the pen tool to create layer masks and it fast and easy. It's easier to follow the curves of a womans body that way.

smack · 04-01-2005, 01:42 PM

good tips man.

TheHatchet · 04-01-2005, 01:49 PM

Bare with me, I'm busy as hell at work so i thought i would bust this out really quick with the pen tool. You can see the difference not to mention we are dealing with a video screencap.

MacDaddyPlaya · 04-01-2005, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YoungMoney

Bare with me, I'm busy as hell at work so i thought i would bust this out really quick with the pen tool. You can see the difference not to mention we are dealing with a video screencap.

This is definitely the best way to go, but takes work.

Here is a good tutorial I came across on using this:
http://www.alanhettinger.com/tutoria...ormask/001.php

sickkittens · 04-01-2005, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

Agreed.

Stop qouting the original post.

Rilose · 04-01-2005, 02:08 PM

use paths......fuck the feathering it looks like shit

pxxx · 04-01-2005, 02:12 PM

Very nice tutorial iwantchixx.

1215 · 04-01-2005, 02:16 PM

the one of her in the field came out pretty cool. the final product by iwantchix looks like shit though.

seems like you know how to do it, but suck at it because your original copy looks way better.

Rilose · 04-01-2005, 02:26 PM

path tool here..........

budz · 04-01-2005, 02:34 PM

ugh, am I the only one that uses extract ? lol

Froey Twe · 04-01-2005, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Za Ha

First press ctr-alt-shift-L
Next Adjust the Levels to +15 +11
Next use the background eraser and then jus make the image smaller.

thats what i'm saying, but the brake down was needed for the noobs

Trent Edison · 04-01-2005, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

Agreed.

Are you the only idiot on GFY today that quoted the original 5xscreen message and replied with "Agreed and tumbsup"?...

Michael O · 04-01-2005, 02:58 PM

Great tutorial for photoshop challenged people like me

Smut · 04-01-2005, 03:05 PM

There's an easier way that yields better results.

TheHatchet · 04-04-2005, 08:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by budz

ugh, am I the only one that uses extract ? lol

Not a lot of people even know about the extract tool and I think the path tool is still the best.

TheHatchet · 04-04-2005, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rilose

path tool here..........

I taught ya well!

Barefootsies · 04-04-2005, 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iwantchixx

I see it all the time. Nice galleries, nice content, and a nice tour when it's pay sites.

But then I look at the header again and any time a girl is cut out and put in the header graphics it looks like someone used fabric shears to cut her out and the skin is all grainy because you had to compress the images to make the page loadable.

Do you know how to do it properly or are you just lazy and don't think it really matters? It does matter. If your site header looks like the cookie monster cut it out then people get a bad impression.

For this tutorial I will use an image from the mobbucks promotional tools. To sign up for mobbucks please click the banner in my sig. Much appreciated.

1) Chose your image. Find one with general good composition and no extremely bright or extremely dark backgrounds.

2) Next, lets correct the brightness and colors. Go to Image, Adjustments, Brightness/Contrast and set +18 on brightness and +11 on contrast. Depending on your image the values will be different. You want it to 'pop' and look sharp. Now, by adding contrast things tend to redden a bit. So go to Image, Adjustments, Hue/Saturation. Chose "reds" from the menu and set saturation to -14.

3) lets clean her up a bit. Select the healing brush tool. Select 7 for size, hardness at 34% and spacing at 25%. Hold down your Alt key and chose an ear next to one of the moles and click the left mouse button. Now let go of the Alt key and rub the mole with your left mouse button then let the button go. Repeat for each mole, stretch mark, blemish or oily bright skin patch such as on her nose. Sometimes you will find that when you are rubbing an area that is next to a dark patch of pixels that it will create a dark grey patch. To combat this just use the lasso tool and select as close tot eh dark pixels a possible and also select a large enough area to do the Alt-click thing then rub the blemish or mole.

4) In your history swatch click the Middle icon at the Bottom then click the new history save point. This gives you a spot to go back to should you mess something up and need to go back some. Do this often. After a good dozen actions have been performed.

Your image should look something like this

5) Now lets cut her our from the background. In your layers pallet drag and drop the layer onto the "Create New" incon which is the second from the right. Next hide the original layer and select the new layer.

To do this there are many ways of cutting out objects but the most effective and accurate is to zoom in, select the eraser tool and set it 5 pixels feathered. Click an area right on the edge of her skin then while holding the shift key move it along the edge to another close point about 20 pixels away and click the left mouse button again then move another 20 pixels and while holding the shift key click the mouse button again etc etc etc until you are finished. You may need to use the lasso tool to get into tight corners. Get as close as you can but leave some of the "fuzz" left. if you leave a jagged edge that you are not happy with on a curve then select about 20 pixels diagonally across from the jagged piece them move another 40 pixels in opposite diagonal directions and using shift key click the mouse button. I think you guys get the point with how to cut her out now. Don't forget to remove the excess background with the lasso tool.

6) Now to get rid of those fuzzies all around the cutout. Hold down the CTRL key and click the layer in the layers pallet. You should now have a selection around your cutout. Go to Select then Feather and chose 2. Click the lasso tool button then right click your selection and chose 'Inverse Selection' then click the delete Key. One click should do it but sometimes 2 is needed. You now have a perfect cutout.

Your image should look something like this.

7) Make a new history save point as described in step 4.

8) Now, lets make her skin nice and smooth. There are two reasons for doing this. One being that it drops the file size down when compressed and also stops the image from getting grainy when compressed. Select the magic wand tool and start by setting tolerance to 15. Chose a spot on her chest and click it. Now, while holding down the shift key at all times select the rest of her skin. Don't get every little piece. Leave her hair alone, the cock alone and the nose, eye lashes, eyebrows and dark creases in her hands and around her nose alone. Not every pixel of teh selected area needs to be selected. Leaving a few spots left unselected here and there leaves a more natural look to her. Now go to Filter, Blur and chose Gaussian Blur. 1.1 radius should do fine.

9) Resize the image to the size you need it in your graphics. I'll resize it to 300x200 for the sake of the tutorial. Next, go to Filter, Sharpen ..Sharpen. This may create grains to appear on certain parts of her face and the edges of her skin. Also, it may appear where the skin meets hair. To combat this, zoom in and select the area with the lasso tool then repeat the Blur as described in step 8. Do this until her skin looks uniform and smooth.

10) Repeat step 6 if necessary but only use a 1 pixel feather.

11) Zoom in at the edges of the cutout and repair any darkened or jagged edges using the eraser tool.

12) You now have your graphic cutout for your header, banner, whatever etc etc etc. Minor repairs may need to be done to the outline of the cutout once you drop the cutout into your graphics.I haven't bothered to do the minor repairs in this step because, well... It all depends on what the background is going to be.

Enjoy!

Link to tutorial for bookmarking.

True enough brotha.

The Sultan Of Smut · 04-04-2005, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by budz

ugh, am I the only one that uses extract ? lol

HA HA nope I use it too

Kicker · 04-04-2005, 12:17 PM

nice work!

Chio The Pirate · 04-04-2005, 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dynamix

Much easier to use Layer Masks.

Open image. Adjust for color correction, blemishes, etc.

Layer > Add Layer Mask

Select the Brush Tool and use an Airbrush Soft Round brush. Set black as your foreground color and begin brushing - the background will disappear. Start with a larger brush (85-145px) and work your way down to finer brushes (5-1px) as you get closer to the outline.

YARGH! That's what I do. Don't forget about defring!

AHOY! me choppy chops!

beta-tester · 04-04-2005, 12:26 PM

nice tutorial man

Thanks for sharing!!

Chio The Pirate · 04-04-2005, 12:28 PM

YARGH! I actually use the polygonal lasso tool though, not brushes.

Basic_man · 04-04-2005, 12:34 PM

Nice tutorial, but why do you gives all your tips away ? :D

Amputate Your Head · 04-04-2005, 01:38 PM

FWMX:

TaDoW · 04-04-2005, 01:52 PM

nice, I like the bookmark hijack there... good trick =)

iwantchixx · 04-04-2005, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

FWMX:

nice, looks good

RawAlex · 04-04-2005, 01:56 PM

The funny part is the methods used here to extract the girl are the hardest... it is MUCH better to select and extract than it is to try to paint your way in. It is almost much better to smooth by duplicating the layer, blurring the duplicate, and then masking to reveal only what you want to be sharp. You can also adjust the transparency of the blurred layer to allow for some texture to still show.

Work with layers. That is what they are there for.

Alex

devilspost · 04-04-2005, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Basic_man

Nice tutorial, but why do you gives all your tips away ? :D

Creative spam that very few will use and those that do so what.

iwantchixx · 04-04-2005, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by devilspost

Creative spam that very few will use and those that do so what.

no spam here.

iwantchixx · 04-04-2005, 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RawAlex

The funny part is the methods used here to extract the girl are the hardest... it is MUCH better to select and extract than it is to try to paint your way in. It is almost much better to smooth by duplicating the layer, blurring the duplicate, and then masking to reveal only what you want to be sharp. You can also adjust the transparency of the blurred layer to allow for some texture to still show.

Work with layers. That is what they are there for.

Alex

I find that using the eraser brush does a nicer job for me. The extract feature cuts off shit I need and leave stuff I don't need.

But now that I learned how to turn a path into a selection I'll be using it from now on.

iwantchixx · 04-04-2005, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Basic_man

Nice tutorial, but why do you gives all your tips away ? :D

because it drives me nuts whne people can't cut out images properly and I thought it would be nice to help fellow gfy'ers out

04-01-2005, 01:10 AM	#1
iwantchixx Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Boonies Posts: 12,860	Photoshop Tip :: Some of you NEED to learn this. (PICS) I see it all the time. Nice galleries, nice content, and a nice tour when it's pay sites. But then I look at the header again and any time a girl is cut out and put in the header graphics it looks like someone used fabric shears to cut her out and the skin is all grainy because you had to compress the images to make the page loadable. Do you know how to do it properly or are you just lazy and don't think it really matters? It does matter. If your site header looks like the cookie monster cut it out then people get a bad impression. For this tutorial I will use an image from the mobbucks promotional tools. To sign up for mobbucks please click the banner in my sig. Much appreciated. 1) Chose your image. Find one with general good composition and no extremely bright or extremely dark backgrounds. 2) Next, lets correct the brightness and colors. Go to Image, Adjustments, Brightness/Contrast and set +18 on brightness and +11 on contrast. Depending on your image the values will be different. You want it to 'pop' and look sharp. Now, by adding contrast things tend to redden a bit. So go to Image, Adjustments, Hue/Saturation. Chose "reds" from the menu and set saturation to -14. 3) lets clean her up a bit. Select the healing brush tool. Select 7 for size, hardness at 34% and spacing at 25%. Hold down your Alt key and chose an ear next to one of the moles and click the left mouse button. Now let go of the Alt key and rub the mole with your left mouse button then let the button go. Repeat for each mole, stretch mark, blemish or oily bright skin patch such as on her nose. Sometimes you will find that when you are rubbing an area that is next to a dark patch of pixels that it will create a dark grey patch. To combat this just use the lasso tool and select as close tot eh dark pixels a possible and also select a large enough area to do the Alt-click thing then rub the blemish or mole. 4) In your history swatch click the Middle icon at the Bottom then click the new history save point. This gives you a spot to go back to should you mess something up and need to go back some. Do this often. After a good dozen actions have been performed. Your image should look something like this 5) Now lets cut her our from the background. In your layers pallet drag and drop the layer onto the "Create New" incon which is the second from the right. Next hide the original layer and select the new layer. To do this there are many ways of cutting out objects but the most effective and accurate is to zoom in, select the eraser tool and set it 5 pixels feathered. Click an area right on the edge of her skin then while holding the shift key move it along the edge to another close point about 20 pixels away and click the left mouse button again then move another 20 pixels and while holding the shift key click the mouse button again etc etc etc until you are finished. You may need to use the lasso tool to get into tight corners. Get as close as you can but leave some of the "fuzz" left. if you leave a jagged edge that you are not happy with on a curve then select about 20 pixels diagonally across from the jagged piece them move another 40 pixels in opposite diagonal directions and using shift key click the mouse button. I think you guys get the point with how to cut her out now. Don't forget to remove the excess background with the lasso tool. 6) Now to get rid of those fuzzies all around the cutout. Hold down the CTRL key and click the layer in the layers pallet. You should now have a selection around your cutout. Go to Select then Feather and chose 2. Click the lasso tool button then right click your selection and chose 'Inverse Selection' then click the delete Key. One click should do it but sometimes 2 is needed. You now have a perfect cutout. Your image should look something like this. 7) Make a new history save point as described in step 4. 8) Now, lets make her skin nice and smooth. There are two reasons for doing this. One being that it drops the file size down when compressed and also stops the image from getting grainy when compressed. Select the magic wand tool and start by setting tolerance to 15. Chose a spot on her chest and click it. Now, while holding down the shift key at all times select the rest of her skin. Don't get every little piece. Leave her hair alone, the cock alone and the nose, eye lashes, eyebrows and dark creases in her hands and around her nose alone. Not every pixel of teh selected area needs to be selected. Leaving a few spots left unselected here and there leaves a more natural look to her. Now go to Filter, Blur and chose Gaussian Blur. 1.1 radius should do fine. 9) Resize the image to the size you need it in your graphics. I'll resize it to 300x200 for the sake of the tutorial. Next, go to Filter, Sharpen ..Sharpen. This may create grains to appear on certain parts of her face and the edges of her skin. Also, it may appear where the skin meets hair. To combat this, zoom in and select the area with the lasso tool then repeat the Blur as described in step 8. Do this until her skin looks uniform and smooth. 10) Repeat step 6 if necessary but only use a 1 pixel feather. 11) Zoom in at the edges of the cutout and repair any darkened or jagged edges using the eraser tool. 12) You now have your graphic cutout for your header, banner, whatever etc etc etc. Minor repairs may need to be done to the outline of the cutout once you drop the cutout into your graphics.I haven't bothered to do the minor repairs in this step because, well... It all depends on what the background is going to be. Enjoy! Link to tutorial for bookmarking.

04-01-2005, 01:14 AM	#2
johnnyhey Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: los angeles Posts: 1,172	seems like a lotta photoshopping of a girl with a dick in her mouth. __________________ CandyDreams.com shooter for hire info[at]candydreams.com ICQ:96563638 AIM: johnnyhey

04-01-2005, 01:20 AM	#5
jamesonxx Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 758	Oh man, that pic is hot. __________________

04-01-2005, 01:30 AM	#6
kowntafit Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 4,667	i wish i was the guy she's sucking on __________________ This is where my next million is coming from!

04-01-2005, 01:41 AM	#7
Dynamix G F Y not Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: MN Posts: 2,910	Much easier to use Layer Masks. Open image. Adjust for color correction, blemishes, etc. Layer > Add Layer Mask Select the Brush Tool and use an Airbrush Soft Round brush. Set black as your foreground color and begin brushing - the background will disappear. Start with a larger brush (85-145px) and work your way down to finer brushes (5-1px) as you get closer to the outline. __________________ TGPFactory Full TGP Design & Installation Services ICQ 250 142 484 · AIM TGPDynamix · Email: patrick (at) tgpfactory (dot) com See who I am at AdultWhosWho.com!

04-01-2005, 01:47 AM	#8
woj <&(©¿©)&> Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Chicago Posts: 47,882	nice tutorial __________________ Custom Software Development, email: woj#at#wojfun#.#com to discuss details or skype: wojl2000 or gchat: wojfun or telegram: wojl2000 Affiliate program tools: Hosted Galleries Manager Banner Manager Video Manager Wordpress Affiliate Plugin Pic/Movie of the Day Fansign Generator Zip Manager

04-01-2005, 01:50 AM	#9
xclusive Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 35,218	Nice tutorial and after getting used to a techniqe like this it only takes a minute to do them on a regular basis __________________ I support MediumPimpin.com / Shemp's Outlawtgp.com /

04-01-2005, 12:07 PM	#10
spideriux Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 17,227	wow very nice tutorial __________________ FreeOnes

04-01-2005, 12:40 PM	#12
Tala Fucked if I know Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Do you have a flag? Posts: 23,368	Nice tut! Thank you for sharing. __________________ ICQ: 11120676 \| Google: mindcrime \| Skype: suitemindcrime\|E-Mail: mindcrime AT gmail.com\|PR girl with great writing skills for hire!!!! Contact me to work for YOU!\|TECHIEMEDIA? 24/7 support from some of the best techs in the biz. Tell Jim that I sent you.

04-01-2005, 01:05 PM	#14
pornguy Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Homeless Posts: 62,911	Nice teach there. One little trick is, that the closer you zoom into the pixels, the better that you can do erasing. __________________ PornGuy skype me pornguy_epic AmateurDough The Hottes Shemales online! TChicks.com \| Angeles Cid \| Mariana Cordoba \| MAILERS WELCOME!

04-01-2005, 01:15 PM	#15
iwantchixx Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Boonies Posts: 12,860	I used to use layer masking but found it was more time consuming than the eraser

04-01-2005, 01:19 PM	#16
Za Ha Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Still lost Posts: 5,112	First press ctr-alt-shift-L Next Adjust the Levels to +15 +11 Next use the background eraser and then jus make the image smaller.

04-01-2005, 01:25 PM	#17
tranza ICQ: 197-556-237 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: BRASIL !!! Posts: 57,559	Too much trouble... __________________ I'm just a newbie.

04-01-2005, 01:31 PM	#18
Bruce_Miller Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: 4REALCASH.COM Posts: 783	nice tutorial, thanks!

04-01-2005, 01:39 PM	#20
RedShoe 赤い靴 call me 202-456-1111 Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: The Valley Posts: 14,831	nice. There are many ways to achieve a cut out look... what I want to know is.. why give away info that could be used to set you apart from other designers? I don't claim to be a designer, but I can do it. I know many.. many tricks for cutting pics out, my favorite way is to adjust colors with level adjustments as well as brightness & contrast and hue & saturation for more control. And I use the pen tool to create layer masks and it fast and easy. It's easier to follow the curves of a womans body that way. __________________ SPECIALTY COSTUMES • PROPS • FX Superheroes • Monsters • Robots PM for details For any manufacturing needs. Adult or otherwise. aka BonsHigh on Insta Bonsai weed plants

04-01-2005, 01:42 PM	#21
smack Push Porn Like Weight. Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Inside .NET Posts: 10,652	good tips man. __________________ Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

04-01-2005, 01:49 PM	#22
TheHatchet Half man... Half Amazing! Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 13,958	Bare with me, I'm busy as hell at work so i thought i would bust this out really quick with the pen tool. You can see the difference not to mention we are dealing with a video screencap.

04-01-2005, 02:08 PM	#25
Rilose Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: USA Posts: 565	use paths......fuck the feathering it looks like shit __________________ GFX/WEB/PRINT r i l o s e @ h o t m a i l . d o t c o m

04-01-2005, 02:12 PM	#26
pxxx First African GFY Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 12,114	Very nice tutorial iwantchixx.

04-01-2005, 02:16 PM	#27
1215 Boner Party Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 2,376	the one of her in the field came out pretty cool. the final product by iwantchix looks like shit though. seems like you know how to do it, but suck at it because your original copy looks way better. __________________ Best Hosting

04-01-2005, 02:26 PM	#28
Rilose Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: USA Posts: 565	path tool here.......... __________________ GFX/WEB/PRINT r i l o s e @ h o t m a i l . d o t c o m

04-01-2005, 02:34 PM	#29
budz Disruptive Innovator Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Vegas Posts: 4,230	ugh, am I the only one that uses extract ? lol __________________ C:\Code\ C:\Code\Run\

04-01-2005, 02:58 PM	#32
Michael O More Cowbell Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Nakhom Nowhere Posts: 10,607	Great tutorial for photoshop challenged people like me __________________ Truth Teller

04-01-2005, 03:05 PM	#33
Smut Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 654	There's an easier way that yields better results.

04-04-2005, 12:17 PM	#38
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04-04-2005, 12:26 PM	#40
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04-04-2005, 12:28 PM	#41
Chio The Pirate Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: YARGH! On me big sailboat with the skull flags * * ICQ: 39-183769 Posts: 946	YARGH! I actually use the polygonal lasso tool though, not brushes. __________________ Need to get a site indexed in a few days? Want thousands of targeted, quality hits to your site? Want to beta test something that will revolutionize the way companies, and individuals advertise online.? Click here to take a look at Bliggo

04-04-2005, 12:34 PM	#42
Basic_man Programming King Pin Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Montreal Posts: 27,360	Nice tutorial, but why do you gives all your tips away ? :D __________________ UUGallery Builder - automated photo/video gallery plugin for Wordpress! Stop looking! Checkout Naked Hosting, online since 1999 !

04-04-2005, 01:38 PM	#43
Amputate Your Head There can be only one Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Somewhere else Posts: 39,075	FWMX:

04-04-2005, 01:52 PM	#44
TaDoW Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Where It Rains Posts: 3,875	nice, I like the bookmark hijack there... good trick =) __________________ -TaDoW I've Upped My Standards, Up Yours!

04-04-2005, 01:56 PM	#46
RawAlex So Fucking Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: In a house. Posts: 9,465	The funny part is the methods used here to extract the girl are the hardest... it is MUCH better to select and extract than it is to try to paint your way in. It is almost much better to smooth by duplicating the layer, blurring the duplicate, and then masking to reveal only what you want to be sharp. You can also adjust the transparency of the blurred layer to allow for some texture to still show. Work with layers. That is what they are there for. Alex