you're a genius!

Great tutorial!!

prtty good tut

great tutorial in which version do u have "darken color" option?? i think i dont have that option since i have photoshop cs2

I'm sorry Nisha, I'm using CS3 and CS4 and both have that option; never realised CS2 doesn't, but that part is just an extra and has no influence on the real goal of the tutorial: the masking of the tree itself

Oh this is really helpful, thanks rob i always have some trouble with trees lol

Anyway its a great tutorial Rob i have tried masking trees before but i dont get to mask properly ....so i dont use trees in my images LOL hopefully now i am sure that i will be able to mask trees...GREAT TUTORIAL

Great job.

Thanks...great tut

I was gonna say you have no idea how much time this saves and how many more options are available now because of it...but obviously you do!!! Thank you SO much! Love the steps, the clarity, the arrows, very well written and great example!!!

This is great! I have to try it.

Nah, I sez to myself. It can't be that easy. So I tried it. Then I found a different tree and tried it again. Then I found a drippy willow tree with little tiny leaves and tried it again. It really is just that easy. Thank you so much for this time saving, frustration saving tutorial. You and it are wonderful.

Handy tut and well explained....good job

thank you so much! this is incredibly helpful!

After such a tutorial I shall quit 3D and go back to Photoshop, LOL. Royal !

I'm new at this and i found rlly easy and quick..

thank you for this gr8 tut...

I'm new at this and i found rlly easy and quick..

thank you for this gr8 tut...

Simple but High quality

Well done tut. Thanks!

This is amazing

This is not only brilliant but beautifully explained. Many thanks!

how the hell to i change the background

thanks....=)

expert!!!!!!!!!!

thanx ......ur amazing

Mine worked better without going to the darken mode, but this tutorial will still be one of the most useful for long-term application that I've come across. Oh, and I had never used the erase background tool before. Nice job!

This saved me so many hours.
THANK YOU!!!!

Wow!

VERY impressed! Thanks for the arty! (:

i realy appretiating ur steps . give more information about photoshop for us...

Great. Can this also work with hair? I'd love to crop portraits and paste onto diff backgrounds but the hair is always difficult.

@Guest: In theory it should be working with hair too, just play with the tolerancelevel and maybe a smaller brush.

Thank you all for the really nice comments!

wov. Nice tutorial. U are great robvdn

great it is just what I wanted. Thank for your share !

Excellent tutorial, mate! Thanks for sharing it.

awsome thanks alot

Es un gran trabajo

Thank you sooooo much. Time saver woo hoo!

Step 8
(be sure you have checked the "Sample All Layers" box on top)
??? where is that Sample all layers option?

@up: its next to blending mode and strenght, its a checkbox.


really nice tutorial, awesome trick cheers!!!!

interesting but oddly in CS4 with me using th esame settings as you describe it does not work and I still had to click on each and every individual piece of blue in the tree and then later on, when adding the background, it appeared that in the sky, some part sof blue were only parttly removed (i.e. made somewhat translucent). What actually worked much faster was to go to 'Select' and use "Color Range" and then with the +sampler click on a few pieces of blue and white. Click OK and delete or mask everything that is selected--> done

Excellent and fabulous tutorial *clap*

damn, that's a nice tut

Really great tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

This is very useful and informative. Thanks.

Regards,
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Man, I've never used the erase background tool! Very useful tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks a lot, There are options we never use. Even if we needed many times in the past. Sorry with my poor english.

Thanks again

pls i dont get it right can some one teach me how better to do it !!!!helP helP SOS

Cool and fantastic!!! Thanks a lot for your tutorial.

calculations...source 1 green, source2 blue, check invert. blend mode subtract gives you a perfect mask to select.

Great tutorial,helps a lot....

great

great

super... tutorial
நல்லா இருக்கு...

Super.....

Trees Are pretty
Go Green

nice job, one the better tuts ive seen.....ive seen alot

This works great on lightning

Wow! Just stumbled on this site and this looked like an interesting tute to check out. I'm amazed at how easy it makes the task. I'm sure this same technique can be used in other applications such as masking hair from a blue/green screen shot.

very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MD HANZALA

I'm new to photoshope and not famliar with much, but how did you blend the two pics?I'm stuck at step 5. Thanks

can anyone help me with step 7? I cant figure out how to clear up the bottom? Thanks

in CS4 i used exatly the settings as described, still there is a LOT of the old background left on my tree and at step 6 , when using blending mode "Darker color" about half my tree goes away and the new background totally takes over + at step 8 there are no checkbox for "Sample All Layers" beside the blending mode, any ideas what im doing wrong ?

Thanks for sharing....

Thanks for sharing....

This was AMAZING! Nice and easy. Saved me about 2 hours of cleanup.

Nice site, thanks for sharing.but i was learing tutorial in only one site which is http://www.tutorials99.com
and yet this is also a good site to learn photoshop

Brilliant tutorial - thank you!

thx dude!

Good work

What fun that was XD thx so much it came lovely

Thank u sir. i got how cut tree very easy..Thank u very much...Thank u..

This is really helpful, thanks rob i always have some trouble with trees lol. Thank u very much thank a lot, thanks.....thanks....... and again thanks. rajeev

u r genius

wow, how can not i think that?

Wow. Something I was trying to do for a hour done in 5 mins! Thanks!

will this work with photoshop elements 7

Wow, I wasn't aware of this feature thanks for sharing.

This will surely reduce lots of time

Also works in Paint shop Pro

really, U R A BOSS. tHaNkS a LoT.............

O thxz sweetheART you are a diamond ;~} Valz

The masking come out very nice!!

fantastic work.thank you....................

thanks a lot dude... was searching for dis frm a long time... finlly got it..