How to rip off a piece of a photo?

Hi

I'm a pretty advanced photoshopper but I always wondered how people get a piece apart from a photograph, for example I want the car on the following photo, but only the car, not the rest of the picture.

Photo: http://www.carforums.nl/images/rover/rover1.jpg

So I want the car, but the rest of the picture must be colored white for example. Ofcourse this can be done with a normal brush, but this becomes ugly if you don't spend an hour on doing that

How can I do this exactly ?

Thanx in advance for the answers

what I would do is select the car with the pen tool and than make a selection and just inverse that selection... deleting the background.

or no!

wait!

what I would do first was search on google!

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The easiest way and the one that looks the best is to use the pething tools.

If you learn them you will have so much benefit in the future, not only with photos.

Goos luck and altso have a look at the digitalghost link from goggle.


Cheers m8.

try the magnetic lasso tool
the colour difference btwn the car n the scenery is quite obvious
so it shld b an easy job

alternatively u can try the quick mask mode and select the car by painting over the area u wish to retain (or delete)

I agree to grooovy - i usually get rid of the Background doing these steps:

1. load the image
(1.a if necessary change color-mode to RGB)
2. duplicate the backgroundlayer (to have a saved, untouched picture, if needed)
3. create a new layer between background-layer and the background-copy
4. fill this layer with a color of choice (i use 255|0|255 - thats PINK and other colours are quite visible upon that)
5. create a layer-mask on the background-copy (mask nothing yet)
6. change into masking-mode
7. use the marquee-tool to get rid of larger areas
8. use the airbrush for painting the mask "OUTLINE" of your object.

i've done that here:
http://www.juern.de/art.php?cat=Wallpapers