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This tutorial is intended for a beginner to learn about extracting images (or making tubes for the psp people).  If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

To do this tutorial you will also need Photoshop CS.  You may download a free trial at Adobe.

The image used in this tutorial is Amethyst Pixie, by Ericka Baque.  She owns the copyright.

Remember to save as a .psd file often!

Sometimes you may find yourself needing to extract an image from a picture.  An extraction is a cutout of a part of an image.  The method that I will show you works when the image you want to cut out is on a background that is relatively the same color.

1.  Open the jpeg image you want to use.

2.  In the top menu, click Layer > New > Layer from Background.  To make part of an image transparent, the image must be converted to a layer first.
 

3.  Choose your magic wand, and click on the background.  In the picture below, you can see that the background may appear to be all white, but is actually different shades of white.  So setting the magic wand at 0 tolerance will not select all of the white.

4.  Instead, set the tolerance to a number between 25 - 35 %.  I chose 30.

5.  Now when I click on the white, you can see that it selects all of the white.  You may need to hold the SHIFT key down while selecting all of the white parts.

6.  Sometimes that tolerance level still is not enough, and will leave little scraps of color. (See arrow pointing in picture.  You can try increasing the tolerance level so that it will include those scraps of color.  But be careful that the increased tolerance doesn't also select part of the image you are trying to save.   Instead, I chose the eraser and erased those scraps of color.

7.  In the top menu, click Image > Trim.

8.  When the trim box comes up, click based on transparent pixels.  Click OK.

9.  This removes the excess area around your extracted tube.

10.  Now in top menu, click Layer > New > Layer.

11.  On that layer type the copyright information for your tube, and your own tuber logo.

12.  Now save the extracted image as a .psd file to be used for later graphics.

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