I have Photoshop CS5 and wanted to crop my bow and superimpose on a nice background so it looks professional. However Photoshop is best and selecting outlines (w. Quick select) but can not identify the holes/voids in the riser and cams. Has anyone tried this?
What color background is it (or is it just a plain regular photograph background)? If I saw a picture of it, I could be of more help. In fact, if you send me it, I can get it done for you tomorrow. Off the top of my head, I would either try the quick selection tool as you mentioned or the magic wand, but make sure to use the refine edge tool before cutting out. Most likely, however, you could create a duplicate channel of the one with the most contrast, and using the threshold adjustment to bring our the detail in between the riser. Again, it's hard to explain without seeing the picture. Care to post it up?
Matt, Thanks for giving this a shot. You may have to PM me your personal email to get these file sizes through. Let me know what steps you have to take to make it work.
Here you go. I saved it as a PNG with transparency. It's not perfect, but it's isolated from the background. It took a little work (the channel/threshold method didn't work so well). I ended up doing it the old fashioned way of removing the bulk of the color using the magic wand and adjusting the tolerance level. Then I worked around carefully at the pixel level, and just did erasing carefully. http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee1/mgh-pa/bow_trans.png
