I Need Some Help With Rendering

well today i tryed rendering my first picture, and i used the tutorial on the top of the page, it told me to use the lasso tool and cut small circles. so i went into photoshop and did that. the picture came out very choppy and i was wondering if theres anyway yall could give me sum tips on rendering or another way to, ....is there another program u can use other than photoshop? if so could u tell me the name?

 

use the pen tool, and make paths around the object then right click and make it a selection. adjust it as necessary before closing it with the final click.

exstensive knowledge of the pen tool is required.

 

Use the polygonal lasso tool, go around the edges of the image, and just complete the circle, then press ctr+x when it makes a sqiggly line around the area you made. This should make good renders, depending on the image quality.

 

I use the Polygonal Lasso tool to make my renders. Before i wasent very good. But after a while i started to get better.
I dont really have any tips. As its hard to give tips about something like this without actually showing you.

But just practice and im sure you will do fine ^_^

 

i usually just delete all the big parts of the bg and then use magnetic lasso tool and the rest i use an eraser to make it perfect

 

use the pen tool, its the same as the poly lasso tool but it can do more and you can stop in the middle of your path and come back to it later, which u cant do with the PL.

 

Pentool , eraser search tutorials @ good-tutorials.com