Editing in Photoshop does it give you nightmares?

[trythil]

<a href="http://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a> 2.3.3 has just been released. It contains a prototype of the <a href="http://www.siox.org/">Simple Interactive Object Extraction</a> foreground-selection algorithm, which has some pretty cool applications for rotoscoping and similar operations.

Thought someone here might find this interesting. Can't wait to try it myself.

Holy crap, people actually read that thread?

I thought freedom had been rendered obsolete by piracy.

[bum]

I thought freedom had been rendered obsolete by piracy.

Piracy doesnt stop premier crashing

[devilmaykickass]

In the video before my latest I did a shitload of frame by frame editing in photoshop...pain in the ass it was, but you can do neat things that way. It's just a shame premiere doesn't like, have green screening abilities and such built in...oh well, I guess it's not a big deal, and probably better because Photoshop is a trillion times more stable than Premiere will ever be.

[[Mike of the Desert]]

The "secret" is to play music (relax music) in the background

[JenCM18]

I don't think its pain at all to edit in photoshop for me it takes only a few minutes to get rid of the background of a screen shot. I've never actually counted how long but I know it doesn't take me an hour to do just one picture.

And also its better to use the polygonal lasso tool in photoshop and just zoom in twice or three times and then use it to erase the background.

[Sephiroth]

Just use the lasso, go to quick mask mode, color the little areas inbetween red(Being the color used for the quick mask) and you got your mask marked out. Simple, easy, fast.

There isn't that much use for masks, amvs usually have really crappy compositing anyways. If you can do it right and with a point though, more power to you.

[Scintilla]

And also its better to use the polygonal lasso tool in photoshop and just zoom in twice or three times and then use it to erase the background.

I thought that too, until I discovered the Pen tool, which you can use to make Paths of Bezier curves.

What's even better about this is that you can copy a Path from one image to another and then just move the points/curves you need to move instead of having to redo the entire thing.

If I'd known this in 2004, AEO:EB would have gone a <i>lot</i> faster.

[[Mike of the Desert]]

Is really a pen tool, so useful to do paths and masks? I never praticed that, but "thinking", in my mind it turns out a little badly

[§Daisuke]

if ur want to cut the background out from a image... or rendering as it's called the polygonal lasso tool is the best... if you want the image to be perfect with no choppy edges then zoom in to 1600%

[ANTDrakko]

if ur want to cut the background out from a image... or rendering as it's called the polygonal lasso tool is the best... if you want the image to be perfect with no choppy edges then zoom in to 1600%

Wow. You do it the hard way.

The pen tool is better, quicker and more efficient. Once you learn how to use it, there is absolutely nothing you can't trace perfectly.

More than likely, if you've ever seen a complex and beautiful image that was made in Adobe Illustrator, it was made completely with the Pen tool. I wish I could find that example file I had for my graphic design class a while ago, but I'm sure you can use your imagination ^_^; .

Pen tool > You.

~Seen