Hurricane Irene has just departed our part of the country and folks are out and about and assessing the damage. From where I sit, there seems to be little effect other than debris and some flooding. I was reminded of the one storm we experienced in our July holiday in Hull and this poignant reminder we discovered on our early morning walk on the beach the next morning.
This is the universal gesture meaning “We made it” upon arriving at Hull for our three week sojourn.
So it seems that there are many blogs–primarily from France–in which literally hundreds of images have been removed from their backgrounds, edges fuzzed, and offered for the use of all and sundry, and perfect for Polyvore sets. These are called Tubes and have been made using a program not available to MACs. As anyone who has used it knows, the program (dare I call it that?) inside Polyvore for the purpose of background removal is less than useful. So what is a perfectionist to do? This is my first attempt. I first tried by clipping the image to Polyvore, then making a screenshot, taking it to Photoshop, removing background, fuzzing, etc. The results were OK but with much reduced quality. I then went to the original image (before clipping to Polyvore, dragged it to my desktop and dropped it into Photoshop. I will need to keep playing but this seems to be a solution.
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