Another "critique my newest knives" thread, this time they're better to start with!

9blades said:
I don't really "know" photoshop, but digital imagining is one of my electives, keep in mind I'm using CS4...here's what I would do differently; when you're taking your pics, a light tent, or a couple lamps with something to diffuse the light (make sure you don't catch anything on fire!) would help elimination shadows. Furthermore, pick a background before you take your pictures, you want like colors, it will help hide any mistakes in the crop. Now, get one of your pictures open in photoshop > click and hold the magic wand tool until the menu appears > choose the magic wand tool > click on your background > if it doesn't select your entire background, hold the shift key and click anywhere the background isn't selected > go up to the "select" menu and use the invert command (it's something like that) > now only the knife will be selected > then use the keyboard command Control + J and it will move it into a new layer > add a background.

Hope that helps Eli. :)
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Thanks. That's what I already do! Except that most of the time, I use the "Magnetic Lasso," which allows you to click points to follow a line. Then, I right-click on the selected area, and feather it a few pixels. Then I right click again and "select inverse." Then I hit "delete" on the keyboard. Finally, I drag all of the knife-only parts onto a background.

Point of interest: I actually tried to create shadows on the blade in order to show the grind/plunge lines.
 
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