Hey guys Im trying to get the silhouette of a fit... I want to Know how to get it from photoshoping a picture, but if there are other methods... Please enlighten me.

-Matt

 

get a side shot of a fit against a generic background, such as


2.) Use photoshop magic wand tool as about a tolerance of 35 to start selecting areas around the car, selecting the Background. Use shift to continue enlarging the selection by selecting more areas at once as they join together.

3.) Color selection of BG white with the paint brush tool, right click with the magic wand tool again on a selected area and press "select inverse", which then select only the fit, then color that area black

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This can be done better, this was my 30 second demo at it. Applying a Gaussian blur car smooth rough edges well.

 

I used the same image from google images... Im new to photoshop so your 30secs might take me 30 mins...

Now after Ive gotten the image in a sillouete, how can I get it outlined

 

Just an outline of the car, or the sillouete outlined but still black?

 

Let me see If I can find a pic that would show you what im going for... I got the sillouete part down.

 

ok well i'm assuming that you just want a car outline.. Basically lets start at step one.. being you've already made the silouette...

1.) Select the silouette with the magic wand tool, or select its inverse and then inverse the selection (that can work better sometimes)..

2.) Copy the silouette and then paste it into a new layer directly on top of the old layer.

3.) with the new layer (called "new") free transform it and shrink it to 95% - 98% by typing those values in the top menu area, so not use your mouse to re-size it unless you want to fiddle with it a lot.

4.) Now the "new" layer is smaller, so use the magic wand tool to select its inverse. Then invert selection so that the smaller silouette is now selected. Now use the paintbrush tool, and set it to "clear" and erase the smaller silouette.

5.) With out changing magic wand tool selections at all, select the layer that has the larger silouette. You will notice the smaller silouette area is still in selected mode (the smaller one is still magic wanded). Erase again the selected area on the layer that has the larger silouette, and because the selected is smaller than the large silouette, it will leave an outline.



It can be done a lot better than this, i'm sure there are other techniques, but this is the one i use. Works better with perfect circles

 

yea thats what im going for right there... I was shooting for black with white outline but Thanks for the crash course! Ill let you know if i got more questions.