August 3rd, 2010 in 
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Sometimes we need to separate quickly the image of a tree or shrub from background, this tutorial can achieve acceptable results in a few steps. If you want to get high quality result, then it is better to use classical methods for separating complex objects from the background.
So let’s start by finding photography of tree which we’re planning to separate from background. For this purpose I used this picture. Open up the picture and start with the tutorial.
As we can see the picture is blurred a little bit. It will be better if we will remove this defect by applying Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen.
Now move to the next step: we need to separate tree from the background. Apply Filter > Extract (or press Ctrl+Alt+X). Set the following settings for the filter in the open window:
With Edge Highlighter Tool create selection as on the picture below. If you made wrong line, you can remove it with Eraser Tool. Now fill in the area which you want extracting to do this select the Fill Tool on the left hand toolbar and simply click inside of the drawn outline.
Now press OK in the top right of the window and you should go back to the normal Photoshop window, and if you did the last steps correctly you will have an image without a background.
Ok, move to the next step. Select the Eraser Tool and hard round brush about 5 pixels to make small clear work only on trunk area.
After that create new layer under the current and fill it with white color. Then go back to tree layer and move it to the middle of canvas with Move Tool.
Then go back to upper layer and continue with our tutorial. Select the Clone Stamp Tool and select on of standard brushes from Photoshop brush palette to edit crown of a tree.
After that change brush size to 25 pixels. Hold down the Alt key — the cursor will change to a target. Click the point you wish to use as a sampling point. This will be used as the reference point for cloning. Click and draw where you want the cloned image to appear. As you draw, a cross will appear on the original image while a corresponding circle appears where you are drawing.
Process all the areas of the crown on the same way, don’t forget inner parts also. See the difference now?
To finish off the tutorial get out the Eraser Tool and hard round brush different size to remove separate leaves on background.
That´s it! Very quickly and simply! Hope this Photoshop tutorial vas useful for you.
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Wow…thats really a cool piece of work indeed…thanks for sharing …
it’s really usefull step….
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Very good article
very nice simple tutorial for people on how to render trees
realy cool love it
This is a really helpful tutorial. I have always found it more difficult to separate a tree from a background due to the spaces in between the leaves still exposing the background. Using the leaf shape for the stamp tool is a great way to get around this problem. Thanks for sharing, I will most definitely give this a try.
very nic tut.i like it
gud man keet it up…
hm,
like
excuse me, i can’t (Filter > Extract) option
on my Photoshop cs5.Can anyone tell me how to resolve this problem ?
Nice tutorial. There is also so many option in photoshop to remove background of this green plant like clipping path with eraser background tool. First cutout the green planet by clipping path using pen tool then use eraser background tool to remove the background. Here in this tutorial also nice technique used. Thanks for sharing this wonderful post.
Its simply the best tutorial.
Finally I found it. thanks 4 sharing
I FOUND IT A VERY HELPFUL TUTORIAL FOR SEPARATING ANY TYPE OF BACKGROUND PICTURE LIKE TREE MOUNTAINS ETC.
Very good article. Thank you.
The best time-saver tutorial!
Excellent information! This is something we will all use at some point in Photoshop – thanks for this – keep up the quality articles.
Clever….Thanks for this tutorial:)
hi man
your tutorials are perfect and well aticulated.ease to follow and very brightly styles
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very good tutorial..
thanks, u r the best
would this technique also be useful for hair?
yep, i tried this technique and it works nicely. Any way thankx u so much for uploading this beautiful technique
yes,it does work.
please insert some photoshop animation too, and also photoshop sc5 tutorials . site is very good and interesting.
please tel me this tutorials are made in what photoshop . some orders are not matched in comands . i have sc4 one, for egzample .filter> extract where is this comand?
if you want leafes as an hairstyle, then yes
kidding, it works, but i find other metods better
I don’t have the extract filter in photoshop cs5? What do I do?
yes, exactly…..extract filter doesn’it exist in cs5, in cs3 eighter, only in cs4 but u must download this filter.
Another quick way to mask it out
good job … thanks !!!
technique are very important, good tutorial………..
its brilliant idea .