June 21st Technique : Extractions

Hello! Hope you are well & enjoying our Focus Challenges!
I'm so excited to be hosting today!!! I know some of you are extraction lovers like I am, and I also know for some of you this is not too new, as a matter of fact a while ago we had a Scrap Chat on this subject, I remember us all having such a great time, discovering new ways to make great ones, improving our technique or just having fun with them!

I use extractions often, not just the ones that appear obvious, but I use them a lot for selective color images, even if you aren't a "straight photo"/people scrapper, I use extractions for a lot of my Art Journal Pages, sometimes extracting people out of Vintage images/Ephemera, the possibilities are endless!

I would say that my number one rule (and I imagine all of us would think ) is to choose an image where the subject stands out from the background, I scrap in Craft Artist Professional which has something called a Cutout Studio, something like the Magic Wand in PSE, that will eliminate the background with a few clicks, providing the colors are different, but even for the cases like extracting the background around difficult hair have some ways around it so we can make them look better or even much more fun than just the pure extraction.
Now Lets look at some video tutorials:
For Photoshop users:




For Craft Artist Users:


I made a page entirely with SOSN products for today: (you will need to give me a few minutes for these to show as I slept more than I should have and will need to move them and credit)


here are a few pages I made in the past & had tons of fun with the extractions (these will show, but some need credits to be updated as they were posted before our system changed, so if you want to click in any of the products to look at them, it will take me a while for them to show properly)





here are a couple that show how extractions can be fun even over a PL page (mainly if you are digital) or with structured/grid pages:


I'm looking forward to seeing your pages!!!!!
If you would like to come over to the chat room today, to talk about extractions, share any tutorials you have, any questions or tips, or just chat, I will be around this afternoon at 15:00 EDT/EST - Europe 21:00 - London 20:00 - Brazil Sao Paulo 16:00 (hope I got these right!)

No rules for this apart from getting inspired, have fun, maybe learn a thing or two or being able to teach us something we don't know, just be sure to follow the Lilypad Gallery Guidelines when posting your pages:

Please follow the Lilypad Gallery Guidelines: Layouts must contain at least 50% TLP products (current or retired product from current designers; templates count as 15%.) Uploads must be less than 250k. List all credits; no off-site linking allowed.

Can't wait to see what you come up with!
Thanks in advance for playing with us!

 

of course I HAD to get something wrong LOL my brain hasn't been working well and the heat (never thought I would EVER be complaining about the heat in England!!!!!!!) is making me ever dumber LOL will be great to "see you" !!!!!

oh my, YES!!!! I forgot to include this, Out Of Bound Technique, where you make part of the extraction come out of the frame!!!! @AnneofAlamo had an AWESOME challenge with it in one of the Month of Challenges!!!! also love doing that!!!! Can't wait to see what you come up with!!!!

 

Vivi, yes, Dalis is right, I thought in the morning when I was getting organized, that as I had the supermarket/online shopping groceries coming over between 7 & 8 pm I would be able to sit with a coffee and something and chat away a bit, I remember us having a great chat once with extractions theme.... the girls ended up keeping me company as the delivery was over an hour late!!!! I will try make sure I message you guys privately if ever something like this happens!!!!!!! @Nemla @LoveItScrapIt