Okay I have succumbed to trying a sc. I pass this sculpture every day on my way to work but all the greenery distracts from the picture. So I tried to use a new method I learned today to make the background disappear. It is a scrapbooking tutorial. Hope you will like it a little.
What a neat sculpture and with such a bright red, makes it great for sc. I'm going to have to succumb as well I think before the month is over....if I can figure out how to do it :)
Nice job Joan! I'm working on exactly the same thing and am having great fun with it. Hopefully will have something post-worthy soon. Looking forward to more of yours!
@karlow75 I didn't have luck with that. Do you know a tutorial that explains how to use it. @vignouse do you know. (He's my mentor) See I didn't select around the grass at the bottom and was so disappointed in myself for not being able to get that.
@karlow75@joansmor I'm not convinced that a colour adjustment layer is what you need here because it will act on all reds in the photo and you select the reds by reducing the Cyan level - I don't find this very intuitive and it's global in nature which, by definition is not what we want here. I would have done it your way Joan except I would have used a selection tool to isolate the 'lady in red', blurred the edges 1-2 pixels with a gaussian blur and then filled the selection with black - I'm not too accurate at painting with a mouse.
@vignouse that is a great idea, the Gaussian blur would work beautifully. The good thing about PS is that there is usually more than one way to do something. Don't forget that if you use the colour selection tool you can create a black and white layer and brush out any unwanted colour.
If there is a hard way to do something then that's usually the way I end up doing it :)
As always thank you for the tip, I will try it that way on the next one.
@vignouse@karlow75 I sorta did what Richard said. The painting part was correcting the selection problems, because in PS the selection tool fights me every time. I so wanted to go back to PS Elements. So I had to paint some corrections. I need more practice with PS.
If there is a hard way to do something then that's usually the way I end up doing it :)
As always thank you for the tip, I will try it that way on the next one.