im looking for some skin tuts
i see some work and the skin is so nice
i have been messing around with photoshop but i can never get the skin just right

i have read the tut on the tutorials but im looking for a bit more plz if anyone
knows any good ones plz let me know i have looked every where

and still i have nothing
also im looking for a tutorial on how to remove backgrounds in photoshop i know what you are all thinking thats so easy but im having worrys with it

i seam to take half my pic away at the same time
all i want to do is remove a background but leave the foreground as in like a person in the foreground
if i was doing it by hand i would be able to do it I.E. drawing
but in PS i have not clue anyway plz help if you can many thanks martin

Hello sd012q..

What do you mean buy skin tutorials? you mean manipulation to change the whole poson/shot!

something like this: http://excalibur.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1210203

or all what you are looking for is the background extraction? please provide me with more information..

And if you are looking just to extract objects from its backfgrounds.. then goto filter menu under your photohop and in the top you will see extract...

1- With a chose tiny brush size.. (You can choose it on the right option) draw on the edges of that object you wanna extract.. all the way around it and try to be very accurate.. I use a 2000DPI mouse and a 1600DPI track ball for that.. You still can do that with the regular mice tho.. But you really need to be so accurate..

2-You will find that line on the edge is about pinky colour. So when you reach the starting point..

3- Click on the pocket (FILLER) on the left menu.. And fill the inner of your drawing then hit extract.

4-You can use a smooth eraser to clean the edges once again in the main layer option.. and you are done. Depends how good you are..

Also there are many different ways to do so.. If this didn't work with you.. Then please answer back i will give you some other tips

And by then check this link: www.pixel2life.com it is one of the best.. And from there choose the Adobe Photoshop tutorials..

Thank you and regards..

JOE

btw.. Can you post what you want to extract please.. I mean upload it or attach it to this thread?

thank for getting back to me

what i mean is the skin make it more real looking as in not so soft or plain

and the back ground one i mean im having trubs with taking a background away from a render
i have made renders with backgrounds in the pas
and then when i have moved it into PS i dont like the background
i have tryed the magic thing in PS but it never works for me when trying to take away the back grund

Ok my friend.. Have you tried the steps that i mentioned to you above! I mean the extracting took? or checked that website..

Please upload the pic you wanna extract.. So i can take a look at your background and i might help.. Then i will resubmit it back to you.. If you will like it or that is what you are looking for.. I will tell you what to do then.. Cause as i mentioned there are many ways to extract objects..

Thank you and have a good one.. It is rainy here :((

JOE

What program are you rendering in?

Poser?

Tom

yes poser but i do render in pov ray sometimes

Just save the render as a .tiff file and Poser will generate a mask (i.e put background on seperate layer).

I can not help with POV Ray.

Tom

hey thanks i will do that
thanks for getting back to me =)

Quote - Ok my friend.. Have you tried the steps that i mentioned to you above! I mean the extracting took? or checked that website..

Please upload the pic you wanna extract.. So i can take a look at your background and i might help.. Then i will resubmit it back to you.. If you will like it or that is what you are looking for.. I will tell you what to do then.. Cause as i mentioned there are many ways to extract objects..

Thank you and have a good one.. It is rainy here :((

JOE

hi ya thanks for getting back to me i am going to try both ways now if no luck i will upload the image to show you what im trying to do

thanks guys for helping

no i couldent get it to work
plz help here is what im trying to do the tut on this link has a screen shot of the render with no background and then he adds one how can i do that

plz someone let me know
this is what i wanna try and do THIS IS NOT MY ART IT IS FROM A TUT ON THE WEBSITE BUT IM TRYING TO GET THE BACKGRUND OFF LIKE THIS
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/1953/imageofbackground6jq.jpg

Hi sd012q,

I'm going to assume you want to know how to paint skin in Photoshop. If you are just talking about postworking Poser renders in Photoshop then there are many good tutorials on this site - under Poser and Photoshop.

Here are some websites for Photoshop that you will hopefully find interesting:

www.tascha.ch/

www.digitalartform.com/archives/2005/04/painting_with_p.html

www.furiae.com/index.php?view=gallery

www.wade.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tutorial1.htm

www.rasterized.org/PS-Basics/PS_intro.htm

Right, just read through this post. Here, I think, is what you are trying to do.

1. Render your Poser image. Make sure that you have no background.

2. Save your image as a TIF or PSD. If you are using Photoshop you might as well save it as a .PSD.

3. Open the image in Photoshop.

4. On the channels tab, its next to the layers tab, section you will notice that you now have an alpha channel. Click this and you will see that the image becomes black and white, makng it easy to pick up your wand tool and simply make your selection.

5. When you go to your layers section you will now see that you have selected the figure only.

Let me know if that does it for you.

Hope they will be of some help.

Dannii

thank you very much

http://photoshop.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=31082

This is a Mac site but will apply to both. Tutorial is in three parts and you get some free brushes that are perfect for adding texture to skin.

Oh, and an easy way to delete the background is to select it with your Magic Wand, tolerance high, feather by 1, hit the "delete"key.  Or do just what I said, but after selecting and feathering, invert the selection, hit Ctrl+J and a new layer will be created with just the figure. That way the original is left alone.

Render against a solid black or white background. Makes it easier.