Yep, I know – yet another tutorial on how to extract an image from its background.
Only this time, It’s about extracting images with sensitive areas (such as shadows, hair etc.) from relatively uniform backgrounds. We’re going to use for this example a human face, taken, with thanks, from imageafter.com.
I needed, at some point, a “fire animation” that would be:
1. looping seamlessly
2. horizontally tile-able
I googled and I googled, in vain – I couldn’t find anything but a small tutorial about blending modes. So I took on doing it myself and with some Photoshop scribbling, I got what I wanted – something like this:
How can you too do something like this? Perty simple, just follow the steps in my tutorial: