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Creating transparency in Photoshop

Creating transparency in Photoshop

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Creating transparency in Photoshop

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Rich Harrington: We've got a basic image here, and we want to go ahead and cut her off, we're not going to worry so much about the legs down here right, we're just getting sort of a waist shot or what do you want in here? Abba Shapiro: Yeah, we're probably going to cut it off right at the shorts, you know right at the hipline. I want the hand to be in the shot because I don't want a hand dangling, but I think that's about a good framing, I am not too worried about the legs as a matter of fact, you can go ahead and crop out the right side, because we're also only going to position her in the background. Rich: Yep, and so I've got that marked, I'll uncheck Delete Crop Pixels but that looks pretty good and what we're going to do is take advantage of the Select > Color Range command which allows us to click and then start to make a selection. Now what you want to do is take advantage of couple of options here. We're going to use the normal method first and holding down the Shift key I…

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