"use your lighting to separate the item from the background" Yes, that makes the most sense. Thanks, David!
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:31 PM, David Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > Thats when you use a shim or prop underneath to raise it off the paper > and use your lighting to separate the item from the background. > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> I was just wondering about the edge case, literally. If you have a >> rounded brushed metal part (eg a valve-stem), that surface will appear >> very white and appear to fade smoothly into the white background. That >> would cause jaggy and ill-defined boundaries when attempting the >> cutout. Of course one could/should use the pen tool to define the >> path, but the CS5 "refine edge" tool is just so incredibly nice for >> that. >> >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:55 PM, David Parsons <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> If he's doing cutouts, there's no point in using green. White will >>> work fine, and it won't introduce any color casts that need to be >>> fixed later. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
