what's your trick using the lasso tool in photoshop?
 

how do you guys cut out images so perfectly? maybe my hand just isnt very steady or my mouse is shitty...is there a trick i don't know about?

Very Carefully!

Use the magnetic lasso :thumbsup

Well, you can magnify the part where you're going to lasso. That way, even when you make larger movements, when you view your picture in its actual size, it won't seem so...uhh...angular?

Oh and then doing a 1 px Contract then a 1 px feather works good sometimes too. :thumbsup

Filter > Extract :thumbsup

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Either that or the background eraser tool. :2 cents:

Zoom in and be careful! Then go over it afterwards with the eraser!!

a-hah...

Use the pen tool :)

Use the paths tool silly and convert the paths to a selection area.

that works fine ... depending on the pics . I have problems with this and big shadows

blow the image up to 300% and lasso that, it doesn't change the immage size

I personally like quick mask mode

i dont get how the path tool works...

Use a layer mask and a size 5 brush

Yeah, definitely magnify...

LASSO! NO NO NO! Use the polygon lasso tool. zoom very close and just keep clicking along the edge you want to cut. Also to get rid of jaggies try layer>matte>defringe

thanx chio, that works pimp...

BINGO!

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Glad to help.

here's what i got so far, do the chops look clean enough?

http://www.ifuckinglovesports.com/blah.gif

http://good-tutorials.com/ is a great online PS tutorials site with user submitted step by step tutorials.

A great resource.

;)

J.

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http://www.ifuckinglovesports.com/title2.gif

the first one looks good. the others must be bad scans

yeah the first pic is good but the rest are not, maybe you should higher the contrast of that two pics so that it will not looked blurred... :)

here's what i'm going with for now, not really looking for perfection right now...

http://www.ifuckinglovesports.com/images/title2.gif

Magnetic Lasso with feathering and maybe some eraser if need be.

nice tip
gonna try the matte>defringe
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Are you doing that for some mainstream project? That composition looks very weird...you wanna make sure that the images(heads) have the same contrast/sharpness,etc. (NEVER use stuff that is scanned in the way head #2, #3 and #4 are). the whole composition is 'off', because of this...and try doing something about the fonts...rethink the entire composition, you can't make a banner or header by just CUTTING people's heads off, putting them next to each other and slamming bigass text across them. think outside the box. Look at the last guy's(i don't follow football or any other sports on tv, so i have no idea who that dude is...:D) head, it's hanging in the air with no neck. I'd say hire a designer.

Everyone seems to have there own little technique.. I tend to spend a little more time on my cutouts. I believe that it gives it a little bit more to the pic if you make the image look like it belongs then some of the box heads I have seen with hair.

http://www.funnyfaith.com/tyler/demo.jpg

damn.. she is HOT :pimp

I LOVE her hair!

Original pic
http://www.funnyfaith.com/tyler/original.jpg

Really nice work!