Change or alter a background?

ShannonHeat

I am using photoshop cs2, and was curious to see if there's a way to change a background completely. I have a few that I shot recently, and the backgrounds were aweful (a wedding shot in a fireman's hall...lol) Brown paneling and neon beer signs.

If there's a way, and you know how, please help

:dunno

ChrisJ

Filter->Extract is one way to do it... it can be difficult to clean up properly, though, especially with fibrous items (like hair).

ShannonHeat

Tutorial?
Is there a tutorial on this somewhere?

ChrisJ wrote:

Filter->Extract is one way to do it... it can be difficult to clean up properly, though, especially with fibrous items (like hair).

SitterS

ShannonHeat wrote:

Is there a tutorial on this somewhere?

Shannon,
I have found so many tutorials on how to do things in photoshop just by searching the web. I have really learned alot on my own by doing this. Isn't the internet just fabulous


Shane

saurora

Shannon the best thing to do if you're looking for stuff on this site, is to do a Google search for filter>extract and then an Advanced search (within Google) on http://www.dgrin.com. You'll find scads of threads all in one place.

wxwax

You're essentially trying to create a Layer Mask.

They can be simple, or amazingly difficult. It all depends on your background, and on the complexity of the outline of your subjects.

There are a number of ways to create a layer mask, too many for anyone here to help you with, I'm afraid.

You'll really want to do some searches for Layer Masking/Masks.

wxwax

My bad.

You should also search under Making a Selection in CS2. Lots of ways to skin that cat.

Duffy Pratt

Alternatively, if you are looking for an approach to a particular set of pictures, you could post a couple. The techniques used to mask will vary some based on the channel structure of the original. So having concrete examples could help get the ball rolling.

Duffy