Making "perfect" masks based on your image

[jms3082]

Perfect! Please keep making tuts, you rock

[LucySkyDiamondz]

Thank you for not being a slow talker! I HATE slow tutorials. You rock.

[dcasuto]

nice work, thanks.

[adibese]

Thank you!!!



[adibese]

Thank you!!!

[scud69er]

Great vid, just what i was loking for

[DestinyQx]

is this how they create a video where everything is in color except for one object that happens to be black and white? and u wonder how did they do that? i bet it's a video mask or something!

[DigitalAssassin]

@DestinyQx Small Canon digital cameras let you do that automatically by picking a colour and processing the video internally. Check out the SD1300/SD1400/SD780/SD4000/... et cetera.

[nilbog2021]

"live with it. ha ha!" best part of video

[DigitalAssassin]

The GIMP can do this now? The main reason I bought Photoshop was for proper masking support... how things have changed.

(Well, the Gimp's interface is still a huge mess, so I think I'll still to PS, but it's good to know the open source team is still working hard.)

[Kulmise1]

it is a great tutorial! thanks a bunch. I used this technique in Gimp but didnt know how to do it in ps so thanks again.

[ThePoster100]

GREAT!

[NeverMind353]

5 stars for OOPSY xD

[inquestFLASH]

neat trick!

[dougeran]

great job, thanks for using the KISS principle for us dummies :)

[joshninny]

3:05 ooopsy. LOL

[zing83]

Actually your vid was pretty neat! Thank you, this was something that I was looking for.

[Sickoflifebandleader]

Awesome tutorial- great trick: Could follow everything, though I'm almost a total noob at ps. But then again, I'm quite bright...... xD

[SlothmanTheGreat]

thanks

[chainmon]

Great tutorial. It was easy for me to follow and consider myself a pretty high end user of the software. Not sure how easy this would be for a newbie.

[FreeTheTruth1]

wow..that is sweeeeet!

[Lazyboy0008]

Great, was trying to use the color selection tool and getting a dirty selection, this works a treat. Thanks

[H412V3Y5]

In the very beginning, how do you make the background copy a solid red?? Thanks =)

[bullockphoto]

great vid - very helpful, and i'm diggin' on the galactic or whatever's playing in the background!

[DigitalAssassin]

Haha, thanks.  The New Mastersounds, actually. (songs 102% and Bus Stop No. 5 I think)

[DigitalAssassin]

Wow, I shout in this video. *shudder*

[V70ROB]

This is very very helpful,thx for posting it!!!!

[Katlady413]

thanks so much, this is just awesome and very easy to follow!

[ima1eyedpirate]

Or you could avoid all of that and just use "color range" tool, and you could have accomplished your task in a matter of seconds instead of wasting time with layer masking.

[DigitalAssassin]

Colour range only works in certain situations (where edges are very distinct), and the "fuzziness" slider is NOT a replacement for a true alpha-channel mask. Edges are way cleaner using this method -- try them side-by-side and you'll see what I mean.

I use the 'select->colour range' tool a lot as well, this method *is* way more time consuming and often unnecessary. =)

[DigitalAssassin]

"Live with it, haha!" Oh man, I'm so funny.

In all seriousness, feel free to post any questions you have and I'll try to get to them all. =)

[itsCiaran]

Super cool, no doubt I'll be back with questions as to what I've done wrong in trying to achive these results.

Keep posting, I for one delinately need this education. Thanks

[likefoxes]

cheers this is good!