Keep It Simple

I may have mentioned before that I've been trying to learn Photoshop CS4 with a book that I have and recently I've been looking at the many ways to extract part of a photo. Today I approached the photo you see below with one of the most complicated but best ways to extract the flower portion so I could put it back on the black and white version and keep the original color. After a couple hours and a few tries I still was not happy, so I finally decided "to heck with it, I will just use the old Magnetic Lasso tool", not nearly as sophisticated, but guess what. . . It worked! This photo was taken with the others I posted earlier. Today happens to be Avery's 9 month birthday, but that had nothing to do with me posting this.