Gail Caduff-Nash 26 Feb 2013

sort of like this? magnetic lasso, contrast low, brightness higher, filter to some distortion i forget, clone parts that got missed, blur edges. and rotate 90CW. excellent owl - i'm assuming you made the owl?

Rene Saucedo 18 Mar 2013

Just blur the bricks a little (if you can, blur lower ones a bit more to give DOF), heighten the contrast on the bird, use point-to-point (lines)selection to separate the square of the bird- just my opinion. Good idea (your idea).

Abbigail Ward 19 Mar 2013

If you want to fully isolate the owl and not keep any of the bricks in the original image, you can always make a mask. When you make a mask, if you color in white you keep what is in the image, and when you color in black it erases it. If you do not want hard edges, you can use a softer brush and color over the background till only the owl is left.

Another thing to consider is that you want the lighting on the owl to match the background you are adding it to. I find that making sure the colors of added objects match the background/environment helps a lot with the blue screen effect.

Here's a rough example of what I am talking about using your image and a gradient background.

Hopefully this helps :).

Joel Earl 09 Jun 2013

point-to-point selection tool is ideal for this. maybe you're have to refine it a little with the tool set to addition or subtraction mode, or maybe you won't even have to do that. easy-peasy.

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