Advice on isolating an image?

[connorkincaid]

Hi!

 

I'm trying to edit an original by one of my favorite artists, so that I can make a small sticker to put on my PC. 

 

I only want one small part of the image, but I don't have a ton of experience with photoshop, and tutorials aren't exactly doing it. 

I have included the particular part of the image I want isolated. 

 

Any advice?

 

 

[Haraikomono]

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[Avocado Diaboli]

I could do it for you, if you tell me what parts of the image need isolated (maybe crosshatch everything you don't need in Paint or something).

Or if you want to learn how to do it yourself in Photoshop, you can do the following (please excuse the German interface):

 

1. Open the picture in Photoshop.

2. Copy the background layer (background layers can't really be edited as flexibly as other layers). Your layers should look like this now.

 

3. Delete the background layer (the one with cursive text and the lock icon), we don't need it.

4. Crop the image with this tool 

5. In the layer tab, create a mask for that layer with this tool at the bottom of the layer tab 

Your layer should now look like this. Make sure that white square next to the colored preview is selected.

 

6. Switch to the brush tool 

7. Make the foreground color black 

8. Start painting over the parts of the image you want to remove. You'll notice that everything you paint over gets replaced by a checkerboard pattern. This is the transparency background, it won't show up on the final image once you export it.

 

Keep painting with black until all the parts you want to remove are transparent. If you make a mistake, don't use the eraser. Instead switch the foreground color to white and paint over the parts you want back, they'll show up again. This is because you're only painting on the mask, not the image itself. To maintain the transparency, export it as a PNG, not a JPEG.

[connorkincaid]

2 minutes ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

I could do it for you, if you tell me what parts of the image need isolated (maybe crosshatch everything you don't need in Paint or something).

Or if you want to learn how to do it yourself in Photoshop, you can do the following (please excuse the German interface):

 

1. Open the picture in Photoshop.

2. Copy the background layer (background layers can't really be edited as flexibly as other layers). Your layers should look like this now.

 

3. Delete the background layer (the one with cursive text and the lock icon), we don't need it.

4. Crop the image with this tool 

5. In the layer tab, create a mask for that layer with this tool at the bottom of the layer tab 

Your layer should now look like this. Make sure that white square next to the colored preview is selected.

 

6. Switch to the brush tool 

7. Make the foreground color black 

8. Start painting over the parts of the image you want to remove. You'll notice that everything you paint over gets replaced by a checkerboard pattern. This is the transparency background, it won't show up on the final image once you export it.

 

Keep painting with black until all the parts you want to remove are transparent. If you make a mistake, don't use the eraser. Instead switch the foreground color to white and paint over the parts you want back, they'll show up again. This is because you're only painting on the mask, not the image itself. To maintain the transparency, export it as a PNG, not a JPEG.

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.