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  • How do I take specific things out of an image?

    Posted by Charles Ferran on January 15, 2010 at 1:03 am

    Hello, ok, have a quick deadline coming up, can someone help me? I have a hand drawn scan that has a bunch of objects drawn on it. using the quick selection tool I cut out all the images but how do I now take each of those objects all on the same layer and put them on their own layers? and also, how can I make the size of the canvas match that of each of the objects so I can export for After Effects?

    Thanks.

    Theo Van laar replied 16 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
  • 5 Replies
  • Theo Van laar

    January 15, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    Once you have made your selections, you can copy them to a new layer with Ctrl J.

    Changing the canvas size goes via Ctrl Alt C.

    Theo

  • Charles Ferran

    January 15, 2010 at 6:19 pm

    I figured out how to make a selection a layer, but is there an easy way to take that selection once its a layer and have the canvas automatically resize to that image’s dimensions? this is a very annoying task that I will be complaining about to this company I’m doing this for 🙂

  • Theo Van laar

    January 15, 2010 at 7:52 pm

    You can make a action for that. Then you can run all your files in one just a few mouse-clicks.
    No need to complain to anybody….

    Theo

  • Charles Ferran

    January 15, 2010 at 8:13 pm

    and how do I do that? 🙂 lol actions that is, thanks!

  • Theo Van laar

    January 15, 2010 at 8:31 pm

    You never used actiuons? Look at this podcast made by Richard Harrington. A whole new world will open for you…

    https://podcasts.creativecow.net/photoshop-tutorials-podcast/55-using-batch-process-commands

    Theo

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