Hardcore cutting

its pretty simple - took me about 3 attempts to find a half descent tolerence level, and a couple of minutes - use the exact settings as i did /captured(note up on the tool bar options) and you should get the same results.

One thing i should mention, with these settings, CLICK ONLY ONCE on the blue area, and keep the mouse pressed and erase the blue in one swoop (ie drag all around), particularly closer to the tree... areas beyond that can be easily erased with the normal eraser tool.

Again, just one of many ways of achieving the same effect....
have a look at these primer tuts on the other techniques
http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/knockout.asp?knockout=intro

happy photoshopping
cheers
heathrowe

hey Soccerstar - not sure if they are exactly same in ver 6... perhaps someone with both versions can verify that for you...

Also, bear in mind that using this tool, with the settings that i used on the above picture may not produce the same results on another picture...

heathrowe

I have almost made it clean with the darken channel effect... the all white is gone. But when i use a black background layer its all gone :( Is there are way to combine it?