Extract Command
Dateline: 11/03/99
This command in the Image menu opens a dialog box that offers several tools for isolating the foreground and background areas of an image. To see a screen shot of the dialog box, click here and a new window will open.
This command works particularly well for images that have intricate or undefined edges, like hair. In the two images below you can see the results of my first time using the extract command.
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It takes a little practice at first to get the selections just right, but once you start to work with the tools, you will quickly learn how they effect the extraction, and you'll be able to extract complicated selections from a background in short work. With the tools in the dialog you can switch back and forth between the original image and the extracted image and you're able to fine tune the selection before committing to it. The extract dialog screen shot shows you all the available tools for making and refining selections. These are thoroughly explained in the User Guide Supplement so I won't use space here to explain them.
The extract command is really quite ingenious, and well worth taking a little time to learn how it works.
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Sue Chastain |
Screen shots captured with Corel Capture 9. Example images from Nova Development's Art Explosion 600,000.
