Leopard knife

[Brian Hochstrat]

This a knife I just finished. I shot the background in white and was going to try and cut the images and paste them onto a background in photo shop, BUT, I have not figured it out how to get the images outlined exactly, any suggestions. Meanwhile I will read up on it and find out where I am going wrong.

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[quickcut07]

Brian as always excellent work. Thank you for takeing the time to share the pic's. I'ts amazing how lifelike images can be engraved. I'm still stumbling on scolls and flowers
Eric

 

[monk]

with such gorgeous work, how could one ever go wrong here ? ok, so i'm blind ! but if anything needs fixed here, i think it's maybe just your lack of happiness with your own beautiful work. sit down, relax, take a deep breath, count to ten. nothing's bad here except you're insecure. this is great stuff !

 

[Andrew Biggs]

Hi Brian

Looks fantastic!!!

Search Phil Coggans earlier posts. I'm pretty sure in his Photoshop tutorial that he showed you how to outline the images and cut them out. Just found them in the in the Tips archive here http://www.igraver.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2834


Cheers
Andrew

 

[cowboy_silversmith]

Brian~ Spectacular! It is always a pleasure to linger at your posts. I am a fan!

Best regards,
Greg Pauline

 

[Mike Cirelli]

Brian beautiful job.


You can click around the knife using the pen tool. The after going all the way around right click the image and choose make selection. Then you can go up to select and chose invert, then hit the delete button and you will delete the background and have you item cut out. This is a little different than Sam explains but check out Sam's tutorial on Igraver.

 

[Tim Herman]

Brian, excellent work! If you shoot pics with the knife on a gray or solid color background, in photoshop try the magig wand selection tool. It will select all the area of that one color/value. If it leaves smal areas just hold down the shift button and that will allow you too ADD to the selection. With your almost white background you lose the entire top of the knife frame making it very difficult to get an accurate selection. Hope this helps.

 

[ron p. nott]

hi Brian .. beautiful work ,, get Marty's CD from FEGA it is an excellent CD on how to do lay outs using the computer .. ron p

 

[Brian Hochstrat]

Thanks for the advice guys, between Phil's tutorial and the advice Mike and Tim added, I was fairly successful. I surely will not be setting up for business like Coop, but I think these images will work well enough for my website. For the background pic, the bank of my irrigation ditch had to double for a pond out in the Serengetti and then I just darkened it back so it was more subtle, and then airbrushed in some shadow under the knives. Pretty simple task once you have gotten through it once.

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[Roger Bleile]

Brian,

Beautiful designing and engraving. Great concept on the photo as well.

RB

 

[Andrew Biggs]

WOW Brian!!

That makes a big difference to everything. Excellent!!!

Yip, Once you've done it and know the processes it's fairly plain sailing from there.

With the shadow..............PhotoShop has an inbuilt function that allows you to do that with a few clicks of the button and it's very intuative to do. Not sure what version of PhotoShop you have (mine's CS3) but if you go to the Help menu you should be able to find it quick enough.

Cheers
Andrew

 

[FANCYGUN]

Brian
Go to a photoshop and buy yourself what is called a GREY CARD. Photographers use it to adjust the camera for proper exposure and color balance. It's a neutral grey. Use it as your background instead of white. Then it is a fairly simple proceedure to seperate your knife from the background in photoshop like you just did.
Great looking knife and now a great photo to boot too.

 

[Ron Smith]

Excellent work and exciting photo, Brian.

 

[Tim Herman]

WOW that adds greatly! Excellent job once again, keep posting your fantastic work.

 

[DARNEW]

why cant I see your pics?

 

[Brian Hochstrat]

why cant I see your pics?

I am not sure, They are still there. Maybe try reloading the page. They are also posted on the knife forum (fine embellishment) if you can't get them up here.

 

[KCSteve]

why cant I see your pics?

I'm betting you're behind a firewall (probably corporate) that blocks PhotoBucket. I have that problem at work myself.