photoshop question

dansher

heya, i know this isn't strictly video game art but i hope its ok if i ask here

i want to try make a snowbaord design and i was wondering whats the best way to get a shape from a photo.

i need to just get the basic outline of a snowboard so that i can start working on different patterns and stuff.

what i was thinking was just manually going around the outside of the snowboard and erasing the excess, but i had a quick go at that and it doesn't really do a nice crisp edge like i want

this is the picture i chose to try and get the shape from.

thanks in advance

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://invisibleman.com/archives/snowboards.jpg&imgrefurl=http://invisibleman.com/2005/07/snowboard-graphics/&usg=__Hc2_cCpD9_U-KCyu5zp-NY4oSiM=&h=257&w=500&sz=27&hl=en&start=167&sig2=KHremdvKSVvtlgUKA9NgFw&zoom=1&tbnid=g8uJzjMtNwcPLM:&tbnh=105&tbnw=205&ei=i8SkTPatPI6SuwPU-t2gDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhires%2Bsnowboard%2Bpics%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26biw%3D1243%26bih%3D791%26tbs%3Disch:10,4700&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=478&oei=dsSkTJ3vK9OccbCd4KQI&esq=8&page=8&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:167&tx=121&ty=34&biw=1243&bih=791

m4dcow

Usually I would just use the pen tool to trace the shape, but the quick way on that image would be to magic wand select the background with a bit of tolerance, and delete the background. Then ctrl click the layer to get the selection you want, and fill the selection with a plain color in another layer.

dansher

m4dcow wrote: »

Usually I would just use the pen tool to trace the shape, but the quick way on that image would be to magic wand select the background with a bit of tolerance, and delete the background. Then ctrl click the layer to get the selection you want, and fill the selection with a plain color in another layer.

when you say a bit of tolerance how much would you recommend? mines set to 32 by default


*edit*

never mind did some fiddling and it worked great, thanks man i owe ya