Remove / Knock Out white background in Photoshop
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2014
- Quick technique that helps you remove the white background from a scanned drawing. The character is Zach the Elf from my children's book "A Tale for Christmas - Zach's Quest." If you like this video, please check out my website at www.mattdragovits.com
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My head is bloody from viewing other tutorials. This is a 10 second life savior. Thank you
Been working in Photoshop professionally since 1994. Somehow missed how to eliminate white background from b&w line drawings. Unhappy using the Magic Wand to select the bkgrnd to delete it. Really needed a good way to do this on current job. Googled the subject, and went thru 2 RUclips tutorials on the subject before coming to yours. The first 2 were confusing and left me befuddled. You got straight to the point, and I got it right away. THANKS A LOT!
Wow! I have spent hours tediously using a magic wand or transparent brush to achieve what I just did in seconds. I have many b/w line drawings for which this is perfect. THANK YOU for a clear and simple explanation of how to use a tool that was right under my nose and I did not know it.
Working on illustrations for a children's book too - this is so helpful! Thank you!
Thank you so much on the curves comment. I was having the biggest issue with white pixels in the black lines. This worked
This is hugely awesome, went through so many tutorials of magic wand, but knew there must be a way like this. Thanks!~
@ Pedro - That only works when you have something with absolutely no color in it. If you have a stock photo or jpeg with any color at all, the multiply will affect the color value. Also, if you go to color a layer that has multiple applied to it, it will affect the color value on that layer as well. Multiply is great for a B&W logo that you need to place on top of another layer, but once color gets involved it's far from perfect.
This process takes slightly longer, but if you take the time to work the curves or levels you can get it to almost perfect, and once you do add color you will never notice the difference. It's similar to how some people will use a lasso for selection while others will use bezier curves. It just depends on how hight the final quality needs to be.
Brilliant, I wanted to place a company logo on a picture. the logo was very involved with a lot of fancy text, but it was on a pure white background. Your tip solved the problem with a two clicks and a slide......bravo.
Very clever! Never seen this particular way of doing it. Just what i needed. Thanks!
Thank you Matt! Your art is cool and your instruction clear and helpful! just what I have been searching for!!
Love this video, and your teaching style, and this topic especially is so helpful. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this great tutorial! It is exactly what I was looking for!
So useful and professional, thanks a lot Matt!
PS: If you want to remove layer controls for the line art layer all together at the end, just create a new blank layer and merge the two!
Thanks a lot Matt.............This tutorial was very useful, I never knew about this technique, It gonna save lots of time
The most helpful tutorial ever, thanks so much!
Thanks so much! Just what I was looking for. The extra layer is a great idea! Makes a great difference!
This is not the cleanup I was looking for to change my paper sketches but I've got convinced at the end to follow your method.
Thank you so much for sharing! I was looking for a tutorial like this!
Other tutorials show you how to ink your drawings in Photoshop but what I really wanted was removing the white background without having to re-draw the drawing in Photoshop. :)
Great technique, thanks for sharing and making this video..
Thanks so much dude, you're the man!
You are a good teacher... very helpful!
Wow, thanks a lot! Very useful!
This was awesome Matt, thank you!
Thanks buddy for sharing this, saved me loads off time. Thanks!
You made my day!
Your welcome. Glad you like it!
Great video man! Just what I have been looking for 🙌
Was able to use to remove white background from stock photo of tumble weed.. had to adjust some aspects, and a few
other techniques in PS since final image was full color, but it was a great starting point.. The tumble weed will be composited into a music video desert scene that will be shot on green screen, probably won't finish the project for at least another month, but it was a sticking point and you helped resolve that one aspect.. :)
You are actually a life saver omg
You can also hold down ctrl, alt and hit the 2 key and hit delete. Then just duplicate the layer a few times to get the full saturation back.
does what it says. nice and helpfull and exactly what i needed :)
Zach the Elf is a nice character :)
So easy, thank you
Brilliant help! Thanks!
This helped me a lot, thanks :)
8 years in the game and I never knew. SMH! Thank you!
WOW! Thank You Very Much.
You’re awesome really helped me bro thanks!
Thanks, just what I needed!
helps a bunch, greatly appreciated
this helped so much, thankyou
So helpful. Thanks.
wow! super helpful!!!
genius!! i love you
Brilliant tutorial
Awesome thanks!
Amazing
Awesome tutorial but is this too advanced for Photoshop Elements? I'm getting stumped at "blend if" and can't find grey on my levels, just RGB :(
I have photoshop elements 2020. I'm trying to prepare sketches for printing and need to clean up the background. This video is very helpful and thanks by the way, but now I'm thinking a better version pf PS would be necessary. Thoughts?
Better and quicker way is:
1. Invert the b/w linework. U will get a photo negative type image with black as background and linework in white.
2. Press Ctr+A (select all) and copy. Then go to channel. Create a new channel and paste there.
3. Press Ctrl+enter on channel thumbnail. This selects all the white portion (ie lineworks).
4. Come back to layers. U will see marching ants of line portion. Create a new blank layer.Then go to fill. And u fill with a colour of ur choice.
There! You get your sketch/ linework on a new layer.
tnx a lot!!
For anyone who has found this video helpful, please take a moment to view the new Christmas Picture-Book Video on RUclips where you can see Zach in his Holiday Adventure! Thank you! ruclips.net/video/yp7OlvyTKcw/видео.html
Thes is great thank you
thanks a lot...
i tend to use live trace n then bring into Ps and edit there
color range, highlights.
Matt, I have a watercolor of a pineapple that has a background from scanning. So I'm not knocking out a white background, want to eliminate the background for printing. Is this what you're doing here? Thank you; I'm self-taught, and the trial and error is frustrating and time consuming! (does this work if not a line drawing that you're eliminating the background from?) Thank you!
+Elm Neighbor - That may pose a problem since the colors will have varying degrees of white and black within them and by knocking out the white, you will darken your colors. You might try saving a copy of your image in black and white, applying this technique to get a good border selection, and then create an alpha channel from that selection. Then bring the alpha layer over to your watercolor, select it, and delete the background. I'm not sure how good of edges that will give you, but it's worth a shot.
Sir
Can you tell me how can I do from my android app🙏🙏🙏🙏
i was looking for black background, but fiund it nonetheless thanks
Dynamic Selection?
call me please. i need help with photoshop
1:08 "punch up those blacks" lol