I NEED SOME HELP PLEASE, CAN YOU EXTRACT THIS.

I am in the navy at a school in pensacola florida we graduate next week and have a project due. i am doing something with our class picture, but i can get it extracted properly.

i need the sailors in the picture extracted, nice and smooth from the backround. no planes, no nothing but the sailors, somebody help please.

you can find the picture here....

http://jumpingthrew.sm​ugmug.com …929_Vtw6n#34270​6244_sWoV7

click on the picture then go to original size and you can download the 5 meg picture, if you could email me the psd file to khoopes@msn.com i would appricate it.

can somebody help this sailor out. pretty please thank you

I cant understand what the problem could be.

This is done in Elements 2.0, using the Polygonal Lasso Tool, Feather set a 1 pixel, to match the slight blur of the shot. My selecting was done at 300%, to get a smooth line. It shouldn't be a problem, other than a little time consuming. I can show you how to do it, but I don't think you will find anyone here who will do your work for you.

Rad

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so if you can do this and i cant, cuase your knowledge is obviaosely more then mine, can you help me out, and do it for me ad email the pdf file, please

What software?

If PSCS2 or CS3, have a look at Russell Browns tutorials; for CS2 it's "Advanced Background extraction", for CS3 it's "Quick Select Monsters" I think.

It will be a pretty time consuming task, judging from the above screenshots...

What the heck, I like the Navy, even though my son is an Army vet
Here it is my try for a good deed. PDF file is on its way.
Oops, just realized that I left a couple of sailors shoeless maybe not many will notice.

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Ok didnt notice the shoes until you pointed it out but whats up with the dunce cap on the short guy in the middle.

Here is what makes me kind of sad.

Anyone go the website in the OP's sig? Bills himself as a professional offering (among other things) "a unique array of specialty services"...(boldface mine)

Now what I am wondering is this: how can professional services be offered when such an "entry level" rudimentary skill such as Selections be beyond your grasp? More and more I am thinking that photographers need to form a professional organization, with a minimum skill set be demonstrated to join. The would let the customer know that if they hire someone who is not a member, the might not get someone who has the knowledge to do the job right.

Seriously, Hoops, how can a selection be too complicated for you if you offer selective coloring - which by definition involves a selection?

Rad

Reminds me of someone I saw somewhere who had a website claiming they were in the business for 20 years and one of the largest providers of <a service> in the country and was asking such rudimentary questions about how to accomplish <a service> as well as basic business questions such as "Should my employees who go people's houses to do <a service> be insured?"

Really bizarre.

I agree with you Rad. This man seems to be in business as a photographer, and yet he is asking someone else to do his PP work for him. I should think that lots of people here are willing to give the necessary advice on how to do it - but it's a bit rich asking for someone else to do the work (especially if he's getting paid for the prints).

By the way Rad, you can do selective colouring without a selection - what about layer masks?

No, he's not asking us to do his work for a paying client, he's asking us to do his HOMEWORK! That might even be worse

Seriously, I can see asking for suggestions on what tools in PSE to use, but to insist on someone doing the WORK and sending a finished PSD it a little much (especially in light of his existing "business")

Roy Mathers wrote in post #6025930
By the way Rad, you can do selective colouring without a selection - what about layer masks?

Which would STILL get the results he needs on the original shot - that is, to remove the background. If masking is the skill used on the advertised "Selective Coloring", why not use that same skill to mask the background.

Not knowing how to isolate the subject via a selection, or not knowing how to isolate the subject via masks - either way, it is still not knowing how to isolate a subject* in spite of advertising that skill.

Who I feel sorry for is the next photographer these customer encounter. The photographer who doesn't get a job because they've had a professional before, and, well, we all know how that turned out.

Rad

*(I remember as a kid my Dad was teaching me how to golf. Feeling a little philosophical that day, I asked if it was worse to overshoot your putt, or come up short. He said, "Doesn't matter, you still missed!")

Yes, I'm with you Rad (I also like the golf anecdote!)

He is just smart enough to get you guys to do the work for him at no cost.
Most of us have to work hard for our skill and spend time practicing.
He can skip all those steps.
This may or may not be a paying job for him....no problem...you will do the work.

René Damkot wrote in post #6024414
What software?

If PSCS2 or CS3, have a look at Russell Browns tutorials; for CS2 it's "Advanced Background extraction", for CS3 it's "Quick Select Monsters" I think.

It will be a pretty time consuming task, judging from the above screenshots...

Thanks for this link - seems like there is a lot of good info on this site.