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Furbzeyyy
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February 19, 2019
Question

Extracting one item cleanly to another background?

  • February 19, 2019
  • 3 replies
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Hi

Problem:

How to cleanly extract the car from photo 1, onto background of photo 2? Need to do this for work.

What ive done already:

5 hours of headbanging, Viewed many online tutorials, but cannot keep track, using Adobe Photoshop CC 2019, controls are different to many relevant online video tutorials.

Request.

Can someone be able to give me a video link or make a quick video on how?

Photos

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1l1O6OXWh0J5xguazNVcvNkEeM_ZVdqOd

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3 replies

davescm
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 19, 2019

Hi

1. Draw round the car with the pen tool to make a path

2. Double click on the icon circled in the paths panel to add a vector mask

3. Drag the layer onto your other image and use the transform handles to scale it

4. Use the rectangular marquee tool to select the image rectangle then invert the selection and fill the pixel mask on the car layer with black

5. Finally add a black and white adjustment layer, a curves layer and a Hue & Sat layer set to colorize, all clipped to the car layer (Alt-Click on the border in the layers panel) to match the tone of the bottom layer

I hope that helps you

Dave

davescm
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 19, 2019

The perspective of the car fits better in the image with the car flipped horizontally. When you do that though the logo needs to be flipped back

Dave

Furbzeyyy
FurbzeyyyAuthor
Known Participant
February 21, 2019

Hi Davescm,

Thankyou so much for youre helpful comments, this is probably the most constructive and articulate answer ever received on a forum.

but I have one more question;

- I want to extend the left side of the photo, to include the 136 shop side into the image above, with the colouration effect, is this possible?

Mike_Gondek10189183
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 19, 2019

Hit w for quick selection tool

get roughly as good as you can using a few clicks to add areas, and a few option clicks to subtract areas.

Paint on mask layer to clean up, I put a dummy background color to help

Drag into you other image. Do color correction so that both layers appear to have similar alighting

The truck resolution is low as mentioned. I cannot spend an hour to do this in detail, but this is quick and to help get you on the correct path. You can then blur edge of mask with blur tool to blend in better.

You can also can edit the truck mask to knock out the windows of truck with like a 70%grey color, so background shows through.

February 19, 2019

Hi

It would be better to use a high resolution image, try using the Pen Tool for making selections like this

https://phlearn.com/tutorial/use-pen-tool-photoshop/