High Quality Images

[The Wizzard]

Hi guys, got a question about images...

I have some high quality images of work out equiptment that I need to extract the background from these.

So I need to do a good job getting these images sharp... What is the best way to do this?

I have Fireworks 4 & Photoshop 7... + few other little image editors

Thanks!!

[jamescover]

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James
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[oztinks]

I do a lot of background extraction using photoshop 6 (why would you use anything else?), there are lots of different ways depending on the graphic.

Try these tutorials

This method is simple but results aren't always great

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/cutout/cutout.htm

This tutorial shows you the different selection methods, which will give you good quality results, but harder to learn

http://www.arraich.com/ps6_tips_sselect1.htm

[MCookie]

Like Oztinks, I extracted backgrounds of over thousand images, bought every Photoshop plug in there is, but to my opinion the best tool is Photoshop's own polygonal lasso. Simple, but absolutely great.