Unfortunately to knock out an animal / human (especially hairy ones) it's very difficult to use the normal masking tools this is why I use Corel PHOTO paint's "cutout lab" you can download the free trial CorelDraw Suite trial and give it a go.
Here's a tutorial on how it works
P.S. I'll cut out the puppy in a bit and post it later for those that would like to use it :)
Wow, that looks so much easier! Is there an option for that in Photoshop?Unfortunately to knock out an animal / human (especially hairy ones) it's very difficult to use the normal masking tools this is why I use Corel PHOTO paint's "cutout lab" you can download the free trial CorelDraw Suite trial and give it a go.
Here's a tutorial on how it works
P.S. I'll cut out the puppy in a bit and post it later for those that would like to use it :)
I unfortunately only have CS4 which makes it pretty difficult to cut out images but if you have CS5 then there is a new option to cut out images (with hair etc.)*tip try and use as higher res images as you can get for this to work best
Here's the puppy (soz the image is quite low res)
Here you go, windude. :)
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Thanks for that video, Nick. That explains a lot. The only problem I'm having is making the background transparent. I can only turn it into a colour...I unfortunately only have CS4 which makes it pretty difficult to cut out images but if you have CS5 then there is a new option to cut out images (with hair etc.)
Here's the puppy (soz the image is quite low res
Mabe a cool abstract background.