Extracting using a pen tool - SBB Digital Scrapbooking Forums | Scrapbook-Bytes

putri · #1 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008

I just added this video on my blog:
http://www.scrapbit.com/2008/01/21/p...-the-pen-tool/

I have some other tuts there. Hope it helps!

Pesto126 · #2 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008

Nice video of manually doing an extraction.. wish there was sound..

for those interested.. I use the amazing Vertus fluid mask to do the same thing in about 30 seconds. You simply color in the areas you want to keep and you want to remove (the program creates blocks of areas and when you paint it fills in these blocks) and voila.. extraction! I use it almost exclusively these days... the pen tool is great but takes a lot of time - fluid mask saves you all the time and even does fine hair extraction with ease. Worth the $$ if you do a bunch of extractions....

faerywings · #3 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008

putri- I am off to see this, I have been "scared" to do any work with the pen tool except for some simple paths etc. TFS!

Tracey R (Haley64) · #4 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008

Pesto there is sound, you just need to turn up all your volume controls to Max!

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Originally Posted by Pesto126

Nice video of manually doing an extraction.. wish there was sound..

for those interested.. I use the amazing Vertus fluid mask to do the same thing in about 30 seconds. You simply color in the areas you want to keep and you want to remove (the program creates blocks of areas and when you paint it fills in these blocks) and voila.. extraction! I use it almost exclusively these days... the pen tool is great but takes a lot of time - fluid mask saves you all the time and even does fine hair extraction with ease. Worth the $$ if you do a bunch of extractions....

Serena Thomas · #5 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008

Pesto - that looks like a great tool but way more than my allowance will cover.

Thanks for the great idea.

Tracey R (Haley64) · #6 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008

LOL Ouch Serena...yeah a little pricey but it is a cool PS Plug-in!

I also should have added that the pen tool extraction video is a very neat method and one that I had never thought of using, basically because I use a mask layer in PSP to extract.

Diamante · #7 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008

Great video Savitri!!

shelleyrae · #8 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008

Great tut - thanks for sharing!