Cutting around images

Hello, I'm creating a games website and therefore need a lot of images. However, I was just wandering was there a good way of cutting? Should I just use the lasso tools?

Mike

You can use the extract tool in Photoshop. In PS7 it's located under the filters tab, and I forget where it is in PS6 (under Edit, I think).

But basically, lasso and that. Sometimes you can also use the magic wand, play around with it's tolerance level. If you have a dark figure on a light background (or visa-versa) then you can set the tolerance to about 50-70 and use that, just hold SHIFT and keep dragging along.

There's a lot of ways to make selections, and this site has a bunch of great tutorials to help you learn...

Layer Mask

Magic wand

Color Range

Lasso/Magnetic Lasso

Channels

Try 'em out