Hey can anyone teach me to extract a scan from a background pls !

There are more people who can help you in the Art forum so I'll move it there for you.

What I find to be the best method is to use the pen tool/layer mask. It allows you to go back and quickly fix any mistakes so you don't have to worry about getting everything absolutely perfect in one shot. Here is a quick and easy to follow tutorial on this method.

Of course this isn't the only way to extract, but for me it is what works best.

hmm not sure which program to use..

Well, which programs do you have? Every program has a different way of doing it.

The Pen tool/ Layer Mask is done through Adobe Photoshop.

I only have paint from microsoft.. i'll go get photoshop now..

merged: 03-24-2007 ~ 10:29pm
do i have to trace out every single portion that i want from a background via pen tool? it seems impossible though..

I personally use the polygonal lasoo in Photoshop, sure manually cutting of a few pixels at a time on a 4000x4000 image is time consuming but the results are really nice. Watch out for jagged edges though.

Well,I first use the polygonal lasso/magnetic lasso and I'll zoom in,and fixed the parts using the normal lasso.