
I may have mentioned this tool in the past, but it was in the ANCIENT past, so I'm bringing it up again. I am a woman, after all, and bringing up the past is my specialty ;)
I'm talking about the Magic Extractor tool and it's fun what you can do with it! I mentioned it before in my silhouette tutorial, but we'll use it for a different, and fun, purpose here!
My DD received a Snow White dress for her 3rd birthday about a week ago and hasn't taken it off since! I laughed out loud when, after opening it and putting it on, she ran into my room to look in the mirror and started to do some very convincing Snow White poses. I immediately thought how fun it would be to snap some pics and put them in a snow white type scene. The Magic Extractor tool in elements makes it super easy!
1. Open the photo you want to extract an image from, and open the photo you want to put the extracted image ONTO. This could also be a new document if you are digi scrapbooking, or making a digi card or something. In my case, I opened the photo of my DD as well as an image I downloaded of the 7 dwarfs' cottage!
(Click on images to see them larger)


Now, select the marker with the minus sign. This is for indicated which parts of your image you DON'T want extracted. In my case, the wall and floor. Do the same thing you did in the previous step. You can see in my example, it doesn't have to be completely filled in - just give the program an indication of what you don't want to extract.
If you make a mistake and scribble some red on the background, just click on the eraser tool and erase the mistake.

4.
You can see in my example what it will look something like. My image is now extracted and ready to drag and drop onto my background. I click on the move tool (that black arrow at the top of your tools palette), click on the extracted image (my daughter), then holding down the mouse button, drag your mouse over until it's on the background and release the mouse button.



It's kinda fun what you can do with it :)

4 comments:
You are so awesome bobbi! Thanks for all the time you put into these : )
Is there a way to do this in regular Photoshop?
Hey Bobbi... I was just wondering if anyone else has problems reading your blog due to the black background? Am I the only one? I have been out of the blogging world for a few months and now have time again to blog, so thought I would just ask.
Don't change anything just for me, I was just curious! :) I love your blog, your tips, your tutorials, etc, but can't read them on the far left side.
Anyway, just thought I would ask! :) Have a good day!
I know this is unrelated to this post but I have a 'scrapbooking' question. I have plain, grey chipboard letters and I want to do them in a more decorative way. How do I do that?
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