Any graphic artists or p/shop gurus??

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lacroupade

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Wife needs to provide 'cutouts' to PR of stuff in the shop for magazine use.

Anyone know what the technical solution is? I guess I can fathom the intricasies of doing, say, a lasso cutout but what the hell do you save it as and what do I expect the resultant image to look like as regards the background?

I have Corel Paint Shop Pro and a few freebie tools so will have a fiddle but any advice most welcome.

cheers

paul
 
Without seeing the original images it is hard to say. If you mean you need to photograph things in your shop then photograph them on a plain background avoid shadows (adjust lighting), and try to use a decent camera.

.. in terms of cutting out the image you need to use a combination of lassoo tool and masks (or maybe eraser tool, if you don't know how to do masks). If it is for magazine use then I would just send them the images on a plain background and let the magazine arty-types cut them out, they will use Photoshop all day long and can probably cut them out in 30 seconds.
 
Good advice now I come to think of it....I've looked at P/shop and its quite complex if you aren't familiar with the product, so I suspect thats the way we'll go.

Thanks! :thumbsup:
 
I've just been looking at a couple of budget lighting setups, one of which comes with a green screen....anyone know is this any different/better than white background and if so why?
 
It shouldn't matter too much if you are cutting out. green screen works nicely for video because they "cut out" using a chroma key (removed a colour). This is a bit crude for graphics work though, so personally I would go with a plain white background (and some good lighting).

If you are just looking to use cut-out tools then Photoshop will be similar to Paint Shop Pro, The GIMP, or a host of other variants, so you don't need to spend too much to achieve it. Take a look on youtube, there are plenty of tutorials for how to cut items out.

How come there is a magazine wanting to display products but they aren't willing to do the cutting out themselves? Surely that's part of their job?
 
If they're using Indesign for the magazine, then there's a tool built in which will semi-automagically create masks/alpha channels, which can then be manually tweaked to produce a cleaner outline.

Otherwise the magic selection brush in Photoshop comes in handy and you can save a selection as a mask/alpha channel as you need.

However, I'd be supplying the images on a plain, multi-point-lit, background and let the PR/magazine people do the rest as they can do it much faster/better than you will be able to.
 
Excellent. Now I just have to whack the marketing budget for some lighting kit and a possible upgrade to my poor old D70S :evil:
 
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