: How to cut a photo taken with white background My friend shoot a photo with a DIY White Backdrop, and I want to cut the tea box with the shadow. Is there any technique to dicut it? my

@Heady304

Adjusting the coloring:

If your friend photographed the tea box in raw format, open Adobe Bridge, find the image, and double click on it. This will open up a Photoshop plugin called Adobe Camera Raw. You can use the sliders to adjust the white balance (e.g. making the tea box more yellow and less blue), increase the vibrancy, and increase the amount of saturation of the yellows, oranges, or any color family in the image. You can adjust the brightness too by adjusting exposure. You can do a lot of this with a jpg image too but you can do a lot more with raw format.

Another option is to open the file in Photoshop and add adjustment layers. Add one adjustment layer to increase the exposure, you can add a layer for curves, vibrance, saturation, several to add a slight tint, etc.

Selecting your object:

I would use the pen tool to select the area I wanted to cut/copy. There are lots of tutorials on the pen tool, but essentially you create a new path on your paths palette, go back to your layers palette and use the pen tool to create selection points around the image. You can move each of these points with the white arrow. Then you right-click, choose "make selection", and your area is selected. You can than duplicate that layer to another document or select inverse and hide the rest with a mask, etc. You can select the shadow in your image but I might not select it and the add it later with Photoshop and maybe add another light source in Photoshop. You can experiment to see the results you prefer.

Just a side note: the white back drop in the photos you're emulating is called a lightbox. They are relatively inexpensive. You'll get the best results if your friend re-photographs the tea can using a lightbox and a few more lamps if possible. You may want to try photographing it standing upright too to see if that look suits you better.

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@Chiappetta793

Yes.


Crop the image to include just the area that you need
Select All and copy
Go into your channels palette
Create a new channel
Paste
Invert
Manually color the tea box white (You may need to use paths/ selection tools to select the tea box prior to coloring it)
Control click on the new channel (This will get all the white and shades of grey selected)
Go back to layers palette and pick the layer where you have your Tea box.
Press Control J (This will give you a new layer with the Tea Box and the show)


A simper way that may work as well is to just set your "tea box and shadow layer" to Multiply :)

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