Humm. I think the trace method might be the only way.
I read in Scott Kelby's book a bit on extracting a subject and moving to
another picture.
I wonder if you
can set it up to just extract a small edge or such.??
Dave
> 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
> >
> >
> > David J Brooks
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> >
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