Hi Charlie...
I got interested in your final example. I tried to recreate what you have done. I've tried several ways and can't get my sleeves looking nearly as good as yours . Would you mind sharing your method to get there ? It seems simple but it is not, would make a good video tutorial perhaps ?
Thanks Joe
Hi Joe,
First I inverted the diamonds and the area around them and the area on the back of the king's head, using the wand tool and Adjust Levels to flip the height values. Then I went ahead and first just used the wand again to select the sleeves with the tolerance turned down all the way, and because it also selected the border around there I put the view into 2D mode and used the rectangle selection tool with the selection mode set to intersection (the last mode on the right), then manually selected a rectangle that included the sleeves but excluded the outer edge that was selected.
Then I did a little touchup to deselect any other areas that the original sleeve selection leaked into using the remove-from-selection mode and the polygon selection tool.
Let me know if that gets you where you want to go. If not I can make up some screenshots to better show what I did on there :]
- Charlie
