So you want to kind of outline what's there the best you can. It won't complete the shape until you get all around and connect back to the original piece. And you can release your mouse and click it again to continue to add to the line.

And what you do here is you want to draw around the shape you want to extract. It's the same place it's the one right above it there.

So to use this method it's called the extract shape method. So a better way to do it might be to actually go ahead and start again here.

You can do a pretty good job though and get rid of a lot of it. They're going to go into my beard like that and it's going to be very hard to remove. Now this is going to be a difficult image to work with because of those shadows there behind me. And continue to grab different areas of the image. On the screen and it grabs the colors in that area and it will highlight them in red and then remove them. What happens, is you grab the little pieces draw basically little lines The first tool we're going to go ahead and use is up here in the selection tools and it's called instant alpha. You want something from your digital camera, 5 mega pixels or higher, so that you have a lot to work with for removing pieces of the image. Now it really helps to have a high-resolution image, so something form your iSight probably won't work. Ok, so here's an image of me that I just pried out of my iPhoto library. The Preview is full of surprises and here's how to use it to go ahead and cut out somebody from an image. But this, you know, you can do it with the Preview tool that comes with Mac OSX 10. For instance, you can use it to cut yourself out of an image and use that as an icon for one of the social networks like Facebook. There are a lot of different uses for this. Make the background transparent in other words. You want to take a person that's in an image and cut them out or some object in it and cut it out and leave the rest transparent. Video Transcript: On today's episode lets learn how to use Preview to cut out part of an image and leave the rest transparent.įor those of use who have used Photoshop and other tools like that know that this is a pretty common thing. Check out MacMost Now 207: Using Preview to Cut Out Part of a Photo at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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