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what's the best way to crop a car out of the game to puton say a cool background or gradient? cuz i'm using the rubber stamp or lasso to paste it roughly and then get rid of all the unwandet bits with the history brush or eraser, it's a lot of pain staking work and i don't always get good results (i.e shaving off parts of the car)

p.s i'm working with photoshop cs2 and using a mouse

plz help....

cs2... kool program... i use the magic eraser.... works for me... but of course i never take shots of my car in the garage... the lighting is always so wrong....

i used to use background eraser on paintshop pro 9... but then i got photoshop cs2 and started using the magic eraser.... both are highly effective, although i find that with both, i need to do a little "hands-on" tuning to get the result i want....

to get the gradients, use layers.. put the gradient on a layer below the car...

hope this helps

bur the magic eraser always erases little parts of the car, an unforgivable detail

never happened to me... then again, i take shots of my car just outside the airport place thingy.... i use the NFSU2 +10 trainer... it has a camera lock option... i find taking shots here result in the car having much more detail and reflections than in-garage shots... google for the tool, u'll find it

here are the settings for my magic eraser (all defailt, i ddint change a thing)
Tolerance: 32
Anti-alias; Checked
Contiguous: Checked
Sample Layers: Unchecked
Opacity: 100%

i can never use just one tool to get what i want... i always need to fine tune... after using the magic eraser, i use a 1 pixel eraser to shave off the nasty edge-remnants it leaves... time-consuming, but to each his own...

I use smiply Polygonal Lasso Tool in PS, best way for me...

^^same here.

It's fool proof

^^ Agree i do the same.

well, i tried it too but it's too freaking hard to chose the car, the whole car and nothing but the car

What do you mean, you have to click around the car to select it.

He's saying it takes a long time to do it right and he's looking for a faster way P.S. lasso is probably the fastest way, but i haven't experimnted with them all yet.

hope that helps

^^^ agree with everyone, I use polygonal aswell, I used to use the magnetic lasso sometimes in showroom1, but then I was using in-game shots which usually made a better contrast between light and dark areas, but for showroom pics it's just too unpredictable even if you set the anchor points to it's highest setting

Lasso and patience. Works well.

l use the polygonal lasso and get up close removing bit by bit, it never takes more then a couple minutes. I think its more accurate then the magical lasso since that one goes off course when attempting to go through contrasting areas. Plus it works well when taking out the little holes between certian spoilers .

Polygon lasso, and then finish up with a brush in quick mask mode

Offtopic: Can you make car reflections in Photoshop CS2?

Kinda like that

Yes you can, duplicate the car layer, flip it, transform it using ctrl and alt and adjust it to fit, then adjust the opacity of the layer

Tnks a lot, I'll try that

And here's my first reflected car

people would be able to appreciate it if you had a garage

oh well...

polygonal lasso.