Tutorial: Render an image in Photoshop

[RPicard]

Originally made for: http://betarelease.net

Rendering an image is basically cutting out a certain part of an image, it could be a character, object, car, or anything, generally for use in another image. It's a really simple process in Photoshop but it can be very tedious work getting it to look good with no traces of the background left.

I will be using this image from the new movie "Avatar" for this tutorial.

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To start, select the "Pen" tool.

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At the top, make sure you have the correct options selected.

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Zoom in so that you can outline every detail in your character. Here I've only zoomed to 200% because this is a large image. For smaller images, you may want to zoom up to 1000% or even more. Now pick any point along the character or object you want to render, and begin outlining them by placing points all along the outline of the object / character. If you mess up, hit Ctrl + Alt + Z to delete the last point you made.

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Now you're going to come around to the first point you made and click on it to complete the path. Then right click inside your path and choose "Make Selection...".

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Now copy the selected character (ctrl + c) and paste it onto a new layer (ctrl + v). Now click the eye icon next to the background layer in the layers menu on the bottom-right of your screen. This will turn off your background so you can see your render.

You may have parts of the background within your image still. If so, use the "Pen" tool to cut them out.

Now you can delete the background layer by right-clicking it in the layers menu and hitting "Delete Layer".

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Now our final render.

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It could be better but for the purpose of this tutorial it came out pretty well. I think that just about covers everything so good luck and happy rendering!

[iAmaYzn]

Good tutorial, thank you

[RPicard]

Good tutorial, thank you

No problem.

[Gaijin]

Wow nice man, Well Done and easy to follow...
PM Skill so he can update his list of awsome threads on SF

[RPicard]

Wow nice man, Well Done and easy to follow...
PM Skill so he can update his list of awsome threads on SF

Thanks. Already done. :p

[RPicard]

Just moving this back to the front.

[Tasemu]

This tut is good but the better method is instead of making it a selection, go to Layer>Vector Mask> Selection and then go to Layer>Rasterize>Layer Mask

This is the professional method and gets better outcomes.

[nextlive]

awesome tutorial! thank you!

[RPicard]

This tut is good but the better method is instead of making it a selection, go to Layer>Vector Mask> Selection and then go to Layer>Rasterize>Layer Mask

This is the professional method and gets better outcomes.

Oh, I'll look into that.

awesome tutorial! thank you!

Thanks.