any Photoshop pros here can help me?
 

Trying to learn how to cut out a part of an image and paste it into another image. How with this be done without having the edges all fucked up? I know how to take images off a white background no problem. But when their is multicolored background how do you do it? Thanks for the help in advance.

Very carefully:thumbsup

yup very carefull

takes a steady hand


lots of time

i can give it a shot

damn you must be really new at this.





eraser tool, hold and click and change the erase to magic eraser tool. click around the bitch, and do the hard parts carefully:thumbsup

use paths :)

zoom in to about 3 - 400%, bust out your eraser, and watch what the fuck you're doing.
enjoy

Filter - extract

get as close as you can with the extract tool but don't sweat it.

Then once you've done all you can then zoom in and with a big brush start hitting the edges...and don't worry about all this be careful stuff there is always the undo command.

I've found that it's best to go ahead and lightly brush the area up to the skin, even if it does take the skin as long as you smooth out the edges around it too.

Usually the images are so small it's hard to notice any rough spots.

A good way to hide them when building a banner/tour/header etc...is to just duplicate the image, and on the bottom version of the image do filter-gaussian blur- and adjust the settings until you get something you're happy with.