Without actually trying them I can think of a couple of ways. One would
to use the old fashion way from film days to make successive high
contrast versions until the outline is about all that is left. The other
would be a variation of what you mention. Set up a new layer and trace
the cameras outline in in it then delete the other layers. The finally
look between these two methods would be completely different.
graywolf
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Dave Brooks wrote:
I'd ask this in the Photoshop forum, but nobody likes me over there.:-)
Say you have a picture of a camera body and you want to make an out line of
that body. Is there a way to extract say a mm or mm and a bit of the outside edge or do you just
trace around it with the pencil tool and clean up the edges with transform or such.
I won't be around a computer with PS on it for a day or two, so i thought i best ask incase i start
off doing something the hard way first.<g>
Dave
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