I am helping my son with a project and need some Photoshop help with a wheel photo. I am trying to change the background behind the wheel to black so that when we print it and cut it out, it looks sort of like it would on a car. Since we are going to print it out on about a 6 to 8" diameter, the res. needs to be pretty good.

A Photoshop color change sure seems like it would be a lot easier that "painting" all that area.

Any takers? Please?

See attached photo

Just had time for quick & dirty.

well, there's no way around isolating the background from the wheel. that will involve work that likely includes painting or airbrushing because of the relative lack of contrast in the image.

there are lot's of tricks, but the quality of your masking will have a substantial impact on the finished product. pm me w/your phone number if you want some hints.

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Here is mine done when the boss wasn't looking.

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Just a thought.
Randy version looks like best so far but why not just use your own photo, cut out what you don't want by hand with scissors and then scan as a photo what you have left. The scanned photo will be in very high resolution ( at least it would be using my scanner).

Oh yes!!!!

Thanks guys. Just in time. I can print them out at lunch!!!!


Wonderful!!

I'll post pics when we are finished!