Adobe 23101335 User Guide - Page 166

156 CHAPTER 5 Selecting Use Smart Highlighting to trace sharper edges. Use a large brush to cover wispy, intricate edges where the foreground blends into the background, such as hair or trees. If you use Smart Highlighting to mark an object edge that is near another edge, decrease the brush size if conflicting edges pull the highlight off the object edge. If the object edge has a uniform color on one side and high-contrast edges on the other side, keep the object edge within the brush area but center the brush on the uniform color. • If the object has a well-defined interior, make sure that the highlight forms a complete enclosure. You do not need to highlight areas where the object touches the image boundaries. If the object lacks a clear interior, highlight the entire object. • To base the highlight on a selection saved in an alpha channel, choose the alpha channel from the Channel menu. The alpha channel should be based on a selection of the edge boundary. If you modify a highlight based on a channel, the channel name in the menu changes to Custom. • To erase the highlight, select the eraser tool ( ) in the dialog box, and drag over the highlight. To erase the entire highlight, press Alt+Backspace (Windows) or Option+Delete (Mac OS). 6 Define the foreground area: • If the object has a well-defined interior, select the fill tool ( ) in the dialog box. Click inside the object to fill its interior. (Clicking a filled area with the fill tool removes the fill.) • If the object is especially intricate or lacks a clear interior, make sure that the highlight covers the entire object, and then select Force Foreground. Select the eyedropper tool ( ) in the dialog box, and click inside the object to sample the foreground color, or click in the Color text box and use a color picker to select the foreground color. This technique works best with objects that contain tones of a single color. 7 Click Preview to preview the extracted object, or skip to step 10 to extract the object without a preview. Selected area highlighted and filled, and extracted object Zoom in as needed, and set any preview options: • Use Show menu options to switch between previews of the original and extracted images. • Use Display menu options to preview the extracted object against a colored matte background or as a grayscale mask. To display a transparent background, choose None. • Select Show Highlight or Show Fill to display the object's highlight or fill.