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Section 3: Manual Removal

In this example the ground and some other trees remain. This part of the image is too similar in color to the object to use the Paint Bucket Tool. You need to remove it by hand.

1. Select the mask on the Original Image layer.
2. Select the Pencil Tool.
3. Set the foreground color to black and the background color to white.
4. Set the hardness to 100.

PGA 2000 uses a solid color, the upper left corner pixel, to determine what is invisible in the image. Using the pencil tool and setting your hardness to 100 ensures that you get a sharp edge stroke with no shades of gray on the mask. In PGA 2000 the object has off shades of the background color blended around the areas where you painted if you do not use a sharp edge.

1. Paint along the edge of your object where the background remains.
2. If you erase something you didn't want to, switch your foreground color to white and paint it back in.

When you have finished carefully outlining the object delete the rest of the background however you find easiest:

• Use a bigger brush size with the Pencil Tool and paint out the rest of the background.
• Use the Selection Tool to select the rest of the background and fill it with black with the Paint Bucket Tool.

Now that most of the background is erased save it again.

Next move on to Section 4: Deleting the Edge.

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