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How to extract anything from a screenshot, like a player model for instance.

How to Extract a Model From a Screenshot

Have you ever captured that one kickass screenshot in Counter-Strike, looked at it, and wished that you could just get the player model rendered in the position without all of the tedious rendering involved in Milkshape or 3DSMAX? Fear not, There's a tutorial for you today on how to extract anything from a picture.

The only thing you'll need is Adobe Photoshop 5.x, which I'll be using in this tutorial.

First off, grab a screenshot that you'd like to extract the picture from. It can be a shot of a person sniping, a funny death image, or a bunch of terrorists raping chickens in cs_italy. Whatever. Just make sure the screenshot you have has a definiable image that you'd like to extract.

The photo-in-case that I'll be using is a screenshot sent in to CS-Nation of a hilarious kill scene. You can download it here if you don't have a pic to follow along with, or just want something to work with for the time being.

Fire up Photoshop and get ready to extract. Load your image and cut off any excess garbage. As you can see in my pic, I've sliced off the goofy "freelook" mode text at the bottom to make a better picture. We can't do anything about extracting content from that bar at the bottom, so just copy the portion you're going to use into a new image. This will make extraction one step easier.

After the image is prepped and ready to go, load up the extracter by going to Image / Extract... or by pressing Alt+Ctrl+X.

On to Step 2, ho-slice!!

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The second step is quite difficult, and depends on two things: the quality/type of the image you're going to extract and the stability of your drawing hand. If you're lucky, you'll get it on the first shot without having to go back and retry.

Note: Depending on your image, you may want to use a small or large brush size. For this particular image (any any in-game screenies for that matter), you can use a smaller brush for more accuracy and less clean-up. If you have an image with a bunch of wispy parts or hair, you may want to use a larger brush on those parts.

Select the edge highlight tool, and begin tracing the outline of the image that you want. This takes a steady hand, but luckily there's an eraser tool below that you can use to correct any jitters or slip-ups that may be caused by a shaky hand.

Here you can see that I've outlined my image sucessfully with a size 4 brush. If your image uses the brush color, there's an option to change it to several others. The next step is to define the portion of the image you wish to extract using the fill tool.

Using the fill tool, select the center of the image. It should look something like this.

Once the image has been filled, select Preview and drool over a job well done. If you wish to make changes to your extraction, you can go back and do so. If you're satisfied, hit Ok to accept the changes.

If you would like to skip everything for this picture and download a zipped .psd file of the extracted flying Counter-Terrorist, click here.

After you've sucessfully extracted your image, it'd be a good bet to downsize it to remove any jagged edges or wispy parts that cropped up. On larger brush sizes you may get bits of color outside of your extraction area, but a simple erase can correct that problem. After you're done, you can add effects or anything else your heart desires. If there is text on the image, you can use the Rubber Stamp tool (and a Defined Pattern) to remove it. Here's what I made after everything was said and done:

By aeflux, artist/freelance writer