Cut Outs

Date: June 2009. Time: 12:14 a.m. Bear World. FS: F/4.3 

Shutter Speed: 1/400 sec

Date: July 2010. Time: 12:00 a.m. Seattle Washington. FS: F/6.3

 Shutter Speed: 10/1600sec

Date: July 2010. Time: 12:55 p.m. Seattle Washington. FS: F/5.6 

Shutter Speed: 10/1000 sec

Cutouts:

1-Chicken: Using the rectangular marquee tool i selected the part of the image i wanted to cutout. Then using the quick selection tool i carefully made my way around the chicken, zooming in from time to time to get into the hard to reach places. Using refined edges i feathered, smoothed and contrasted the edges to make a clean selection.  I then made my selection white, resulting in the final image.

2- Building: For this picture i just used the quick selection tool to select the sky in the back ground. Luckily the sky was all the same shade of blue, and had i high level of contrast compared to the building, these factors made this cutout go quickly.

3-Patrick: I did this cutout because i wanted to test my skills a little more. On this photo i had to use the quick selection tool and the lasso tool to make this selection as clean as possible. I then played around in the redefine edges menu to make sure the selection was clean and could be used on any other background i would chose.