I have a photo of an energetic bunch of children but the background behind them is VERY distracting. How can I seemlessly select all of the children without having to enduring the pain of trying to magnetic lasso around them? My goal is to eventually place them in front of a different background.

Here is the picture.
http://ivanwatkins.smugmug.com/gallery/3716232

Thanks guys/gals.

You might want to try using the Extract tool. Works reasonably well.

Hi Ivan,
take a look at GML Matting plugin here, http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/software/16896-gml-matting-0-2-released.html
works really well and is "free"
This was a really quick "sloppy" try, you will be able to get far better results with care.
John

Have tried numberous times to connect to your link, but no joy

Would you know if this is still available

thx
Smurf

hi smurfing,

the plugin is still avail.... in fact i downloaded it yesterday evening to update my older version of it...

Now the website gave me a lot of problems... either wouldn't open or if it did open links didn't work right but late yester day evening it appears everything finally working right.... here the link I donwloaded the gml matting from ...
http://research.graphicon.ru/image-processing/gml-matting-6.html

Have tried numberous times to connect to your link, but no joy

Would you know if this is still available

thx
Smurf

Thanks for the help Jerry

Smurf

Sorry about the delay in replying (had to work :) ) the link in the link I posted still works for me, so does the link Jerry posted (same site) if you still have a problem e-mail me and I will send you the zipped file.
Regards....John

Thanks John

I've now found the site open - after about a dozen attempts

Thx everyone for your help

Smurf

NP :)
Regards....John