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Photoshop, ripping a character from an ununified color BG
#1  April 15, 2017, 05:53:04 pm
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I'm not entirely new to Photoshop but I'm also not a pro. I really like making portraits for screenpacks:
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As you can see I also tried to swap the colors of Gill so that his red side will remain his right side.
Sometimes it's easy to rip the character from the background because it's a sharply contrasted one-color background and the Magic Eraser Tool is enough.
Now I want to make an Ermac portrait. I'm looking for Ermac render and I found this image:
http://www.game-art-hq.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Ermac-character-render-classic-costume-MK-II-Mortal-Kombat-2011-MK-9.jpg
 Its BG goes from white through grey, and also the BG's colors appear on his hoodie making it hard to sharply seperate the character from the
 background without cutting out part of his head and/or hands or even having the BG's hard edges remains.
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Can you please help me?
I checked many videos in youtube but none of them offer me a good solution.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/extract-object-its-background.html

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Re: Photoshop, ripping a character from an ununified color BG
#2  April 16, 2017, 10:21:54 pm
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There are several tricks to solve that, but in all cases, you will need to do some manual adjustments/tweaks. It's no different as cutting out hair for the typical magazine cover shot:
- Magnetic lasso, you can fine tune and correct the selction by pressing "backspace" key
- with the selection, use Refine Edge and play with the values
- You can also use the free form pen tool and create a mask around Ermac's body. By editing the mask, you could smooth the selection
- Selection by color range is also a good tool as you can play with the fuzziness

You need to check into tutorials on how to cut out hair for an explanation on these techniques:
http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/photoshop/how-cut-out-people-in-photoshop-using-refine-edge-tool/

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Re: Photoshop, ripping a character from an ununified color BG
#3  April 17, 2017, 02:30:41 am
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thank you. ill try it out

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Re: Photoshop, ripping a character from an ununified color BG
#4  April 18, 2017, 11:48:37 pm
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u can use the line tool and trace the whole render as you see fit its kinda iffy when you start messing with it but you will get it to work.
Or just brush it.
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