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[sneakyarab]

I am currently working on a website, and I have a pdf catalog with a bunch of pictures of pens in it. Each page has 1 or more pens, and I need to get each pen out neatly so I can separate them. I have Adobe Acrobat 9 and Photoshop (CS3 i think). I know how to make each page into an image, and have done that. I tried just using the wand tool to select background areas, but a lot of the time that delete's parts of the pens. I also tried using the pen tool to select each one, but that takes a long time to do, because I then have to erase around the edges of each pen picture anyway, and sometimes it leaves me with little jagged edges.

After I separate the pens I'm adding a little drop shadow, just to make them look nicer on a page.

Here's the pdf I'm extracting from if you need to see it:
http://www.sailorpensus.com/wp/wp-content/...09/02/cat11.pdf


I was wondering if there is a quicker and neater way to do this than my current way.

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sneakyarab, on Mar 28 2009, 10:12 AM, said:

I am currently working on a website, and I have a pdf catalog with a bunch of pictures of pens in it. Each page has 1 or more pens, and I need to get each pen out neatly so I can separate them. I have Adobe Acrobat 9 and Photoshop (CS3 i think). I know how to make each page into an image, and have done that. I tried just using the wand tool to select background areas, but a lot of the time that delete's parts of the pens. I also tried using the pen tool to select each one, but that takes a long time to do, because I then have to erase around the edges of each pen picture anyway, and sometimes it leaves me with little jagged edges.

After I separate the pens I'm adding a little drop shadow, just to make them look nicer on a page.

Here's the pdf I'm extracting from if you need to see it:
http://www.sailorpensus.com/wp/wp-content/...09/02/cat11.pdf


I was wondering if there is a quicker and neater way to do this than my current way.

If that's your source, pretty sure all you can do is the slow tedious way

[damir_zg]

yeah just use the pen tool youll get better and faster with every cut and when this is over youll have great skills with pen tool!