If I could ride into Heaven on a motor vehicle...

[NLAlston]

..THIS would be it:


This composited photo is really about Photoshop's Pen Tool. I had always wanted to learn how to use it and, just recently, ran across a video tut which really opened up things, a bit, for me. I had watched many videos on this tool, but there was something that always escaped me about the Pen Tool. I would imagine that folks who have really had a relationship with the Pen Tool would see what I learned as taking a kindergarten kind of approach to using this tool. But it has worked for me, and is the opened door to all the wonders which lay ahead - regarding the usage of this tool.

This motorcycle is only my second attempt at isolating an element from its background, and I can't WAIT to find something else to put this tool to work at. The extraction of this motorcycle isn't anywhere near perfect, but it is a great start for me. I wish that I knew how best to treat the fairing so that the background could have shown through it. But that will come.

[grounded]

Something far beyond my capability, I think you have created a masterpiece.

[NLAlston]

Something far beyond my capability, I think you have created a masterpiece.

Wow, thanks John. I am really glad that you see worth in what I did. That Pen tool has truly bitten me (in a GOOD way), and I am going to work real hard at becoming quite adept with it. Using this vector based selection tool is (to me) as joyful as it is rewarding. I LOVE it, and I have only scratched the surface of its capabilities.

[pnodrog]

Hey you are nearly there. Several ways of doing it but you will soon work out a way that suits you.

[allenlennon]

i love it, what tut did you watch?

[Mark von Kanel]

Hi Nathan, nice first attempt but your taste in motorbikes is sadly misguided which tutorial did you look at that enlightened you?

[NLAlston]

Hey you are nearly there. Several ways of doing it but you will soon work out a way that suits you.

Thanks Paul. I see that you conquered that 'Fairing' issue I had spoke about. What you have accomplished is exactly what 'I' had hoped to achieve. I will thoroughly search for a blueprint on how to go about reaching such goals.

[NLAlston]

i love it, what tut did you watch?

It was this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9vUq...eature=mh_lolz

[NLAlston]

Hi Nathan, nice first attempt but your taste in motorbikes is sadly misguided which tutorial did you look at that enlightened you?

Mark, I found that tut here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9vUq...eature=mh_lolz

By the way, I see that you are not smitten by BMV bike offerings . Personally, I have never ridden one, but had always heard that they were the best manufactured bikes. I have been a biker for 30+ years, but am presently without a mechanical stallion. I prefer cruisers, but thought that a sport cruiser might be somewhat cheaper to get into (hoping, that is, that I would be able to afford another bike, one day). There is NOTHING like traversing the countryside on a nice Spring/Summer day - with camera strapped on - on a motorcycle.