RUSHVision vs. JWIN :: Flights of Fantasy

[lefteyewilly]

Not to steal your thunder but if you are ****e with the mouse and/or don't feel like tracing the entire contour, you can duplicate the butterfly, drop it to grayscale, up the contrast to get a completely white bg, completely black butterfly. Then inverse the image to get a white butterfly on a black bg. Copy entire image to a new alpha channel. Ctrl-click alpha channel to get a masked selection, go back to the original butterfly, add a new layer mask with the selection still intact and there you go. More steps but considerably much less time. To each his own.

it's much easier to duplicate one of the channels in the channel pallette, then adjust levels, ctrl-click channel layer, inverse selection....regular layer -> mask. Anything with a white background will give you your masked object in no more than 3 minutes.

edit: just did a test with the butterfly...masked object in no more than 15 seconds.