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Walnut compote *LINK*
Don Henthorn
>Three unrelated walnut cut offs glued together and turned into a compote. Very simple design but looks nice on the shelf. Sure wish there was a way in Photo Elements to level out the background. Of course there may be, I just don't know how.
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Re: Walnut compote
Ken from SW WI
>Don, the only thing I'd do with the background is clean up that smudge on the left. If Elements has an airbrush tool, I'd eyedrop the area near the smudge that's clean, and go over it lightly with that color. I'd give the picture about 20% more brightness, also.
Nice looking piece, hard to tell it's not one piece of wood!
Re: Walnut compote
tek-Brunswick, Ohio
>Did you mean to make it more horizontal like this?Or did you mean to make the background a more consistant color?
Re: Walnut compote
tek-Brunswick, Ohio
>Background flattened. I used the magic lasso tool around the turning. I then went to the select menu and chose select inverse to select the background. Then I went to filters and selected average and went to the file menu and selected save for web. I�m using Photo Elements 3 I�m sure you can do all that in version 2 if that�s what you have.
Re: Walnut compote
John K Jordan
>>Sure wish there was a way in Photo
>Elements to level out the background.
I've never used the Elements, but use the full Photoshop every day. PS has an Extract tool and a magnetic lasso, both of which can help separate the foreground from thae background. You can also do the same thing by tracing around the foreground object.
You can then put the foreground and background on different layers and replace or edit the background separately from the foreground, changing the color, etc, all without affecting the foreground.
Below is a 5 minute example - I didn't take the time to trace it carefully or try to smooth the background perfectly but it should show the idea. (Your picture looked a little tilted as well - Photoshop has a trick to rotate things easily)
JKJ in East TN
Re: Walnut compote
Don Henthorn
>You have done it, Tek. Obviously you are head and shoulders above me in the use of Photo Elements. I need to sit st your elbow for a week or two. Thanks.
Re: Walnut compote
Don Henthorn
>I guess I should really take some time to learn what the software can do. Seems like magic in my present state of ignorance.
