Comments on: Making silhouettes in Photoshop

By: CurlyQ

CurlyQ — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:45:14 +0000

I don’t know if it is just my Mac or what but above everyone is saying for MACs command click. I tried that a lot and it didn’t work for me. I have an iBook G4, bought in ‘05′. I control clicked on the black layer, menu poped up, selected create clipping mask and my silhouette popped up. ta da. Is this the same action as in the directions?

By: kallardnyc

kallardnyc — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:28:08 +0000

Great tutorial. How do you then smooth the pixelated (jagged) edges on the silhouette?

Thanks…

By: Anonymously

Anonymously — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:15:15 +0000

how can u get this program ??

By: corriehaffly

corriehaffly — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:54:24 +0000

Hi Mike -
You want to CTRL+click on the layer thumbnail itself in the Layers palette.

Hope that helps!

By: mike

mike — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:26:28 +0000

What a nice tutorial . . until that mysterious CTRL+click nonsense. What are you talking about? This doesn’t work even in Windows! Explain it without the CTRL+click please. Somebody should.

By: AlexW

AlexW — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:13:39 +0000

I don’t understand the CTRL + Click. It doesn’t make any sense to me…

If you are on a Mac, that would be pressing ‘Command’ and clicking the mouse button at the same time.

By: Rickey

Rickey — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:54:52 +0000

I don’t understand the CTRL + Click. It doesn’t make any sense to me…

By: lemonaden

lemonaden — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:27:07 +0000

This is by far the best way to do this. Its fast and works like a charm! The ’smart highlighting’ option works AMAZING too. www.adenmott.com

By: Elyme

Elyme — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:46:13 +0000

Hi there,
Great tutorial, I just get stuck on this part could you explain a little more in detail? I understand the CLTRL-click but from then on im lost… :(

When I’m happy with it, I add a new layer and fill it with black. Then I Ctrl-click (or Command-click in Mac) the extracted layer to get the outline of a shape. With the black layer still selected in the Layers Palette, I add a layer mask… and my silhouette is complete!

By: Borgendorf

Borgendorf — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This is a nicely done tutorial on extracting. I’d like to point out that the iPod effect is more complex than this. View one of the commercials frame-by-frame and you’ll notice that the people are not solid black; they have highlights. For your example, you might paint with a low opacity white on the mask to let some of the original photo show through. A good spot would be the shine on the boots that you pointed out. Thanks for a good article.