Cutting out a car from NFSMW Tutorial

Intro:

I made another tutorial about the cut out technique, this time with the pentool, it's much much better, check the better tutorial here!

This tutorial will show you on how to cut out a car from need for speed most wanted, you can use what you learn for stuff like cutting out renders/people from photos or whatever.
I will show you different tools on how to make this cutout as smooth as you want to. Also I will be showing how to motion blur the car so it looks like it's moving.
I will explain every step very carefully so newcomers to photoshop can understand.

The screenshot I used is from my NFSMW savegame, Made this screenshot with xfire as you can see. You can use this screenshot for your designs if you want, I don't mind. But tell me when you use it and got it somewhere online so I can check it out! Thanks.

Download the screenshot here

Now to the tutorial..

Step 1:

Open up the same screenshot or another render, but if your new to photoshop it's probably for the best you use the same screenshot.
Now unlock the layer in the layers pallette by doubleclicking on the Background layer, if you don't unlock the layer and start removing parts around the car you'll get a black background!

Step 2:

Select the magic wand tool.
* This tool is very handy, you can easily remove parts with it, especially if the inner section is a different color then the part your removing.
Look out when you remove parts around the car, because you have colorsin the car that are also in the background, so it's possible you remove parts of the car!!!
Allways zoom in on the selected part to see if you take any parts of the car with it.

Now we're going to actually use the wandtool.
Just select the parts I show you below so you won't delete any parts of the car!

Place wandtool here:

Leftmouseclick and press delete
You deleted this part:


Place wandtool here:

Leftmouseclick and press delete
You deleted this part:


Place wandtool here:

Leftmouseclick and press delete
You deleted this part:


That's it for the magic wandtool, once again be carefull using this tool! If you rush it you will get a dodgy cutout car.
Now comes the most advanced part of the tutorial the lassotool! The trick with the lasso tool is that you have to be as far zoomed in as possible, as far as where you still can see the basic lines of the car. If your to far zoomed in you won't see where the lines go of the car and you don't know which parts you can remove and vise versa.

Step 3:

Select the lasso tool.
click a point where to begin and hold the mousebutton while you select the point, the drag along a side. You DON'T have to remove whole the car at once ofcourse, you'll make mistakes as you go! and if you select a big part and make a mistake you will slap yourself in the head.
So what to do is this, just drag along a small portion of the car and then go outwards, and select alot of background, then let go of the mousebutton, you'll see you have a big selection and a nice selection around the side of the car.

Delete this part and do this on whole the car

NOTE: The reason for selection alot of background with it because it'll make your job easier by selecting the car in the end, OR selecting the rest of the background and delete ALL of the background if you think that's necessary.

After cutting the whole car you can delete the background, just make a selection around the whole car and press ctrl+shift+i, this will make an invert selection. Then press delete.

This is what I have now:

Step 4:

Now we got the car all cut out with the lasso tool it's time to remove some small pixels that are still along the sides, in this case the ground where the car is standing.

We do this with the erasertool
get a 3 pixelbrush for the erasertool and start removing little bits that are still left.

This is what I have now:



In the next step were going to blur the sides a bit but this you can do best on the background where you wan't the car to be.
So I made my background black and added a motion blur under the main image, don't worry I'll explain.