Quick photoshop question

[BigMans197]

Sorry guys, bit of a boring one here, I need to put a white background on this photo for work, but as I'm rubbish with photoshop I'm not sure of the best way to do it.

I don't want someone to do it for me as I will probably need to do again sometime, so any advice would be great!

[VxDuncan]

I'd do it by using paths to draw a set of lines round the shape of the table (easy because it's all straight edges so straight line paths are ideal), then create a selection from the paths, then either creating a layer mask with the selection or low down and dirty delete the unwanted ares. Then add a layer below for your white background. Would possibly consider adding a SUBTLE drop shadow so it looks planted.

Simple way would be to use the magic wand tool and selecting one area of the table, then holding down shift(?) and selecting another area (colour) until you have the whole table pixels selected. Then ctrl shift I to invert selection (so the background is selected) then layer mask, fill or delete as before. However this won't give anywhere near as good a result as going the path route and you'll need to play with the tolerance on the magic wand to get it selecting the right stuff.

Have a look in the useful photo links sticky thread (in this forum) for some good photochop tutorials.

[VxDuncan]

Basic intro to paths, probably better stuff out there though.
http://www.elated.com/articles/things-you-can-do-w...

[BigMans197]

Excellent, thank you very much.

Will the try the 'paths' technique, as it needs to be good as it will be on our new website.

Tried the lasso tool at work this morning, was a struggle to get to pick up the shiny steel top of the workbench then I just tried to use the eraser, as you can imagine, that got messy!

Thanks for the link.

[VxDuncan]

It's a really simple shape to be cutout tbh, perfect for a first try! I'd try and find some decent tutorials - whilst my post says exactly how I'd approach it there's a lot of steps to understand.

Just don't try cutting out someone with spikey hair!

[BigMans197]

VxDuncan said:

Just don't try cutting out someone with spikey hair!

People with spikey hair are currently not in our product range, so should be fine!

Going to have a go at it now!