Force foreground color like in old Extract filter in CS5 masks

Ok, so we lossed the Extract filter, and refine edges does a fine job on my models and hair.
But the extract filter had this nice force foreground colour option.
How can we achieve the same with the new tools? I’ve had no luck so far in achieving a similar result.
Any suggestions here among you?

Adobe has a reg fix called allow old GPUs on. Tried it out. Got rid of the border,but using the marquee tool causes the doc window to go blank.
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Extract filter in CS5 (Mac)

I just got CS5 last week and I'm trying to use the Extract filter but can't seem to find it anywhere. If I remember correctly, I had to download the plugin for CS4 but I don't see anything for CS5, only for Windows. What's up with that? Can anyone tell me if there's a plugin for PS CS5 Mac yet? Thank you in advance.

Also check out these great resources on the superior Select > Refine Edge command:
Get a video overview from Dr. Russell Brown
Walk through the process with several tutorials

Extract Filter v Refine Edge CS5

I hear a lot of people talking blithely about how superior Refine Edge is to the previous Extract Filter.
If you look at the two sample files called "Auto Align 1" and "Auto Align 2" in the tutorials folder a couple of versions back you'll find 2 children with sharp outlines against the background and frothy hair around the girl. Can someone please explain to me how refine edge can - in 1 fell swoop - eliminate the clearly defined background around the shoulders AND leave the frothiness of the girls' hair? Until then I stand resolute that REFINE EDGE is NOT a substitute for the EXTRACT FILTER at all!

Based on my experience, I suggest the following, when using Refine Edge:
1. Foremost: Work on as high resolution an image as you can.
2. As I mentioned, listen carefully to what Russell Brown says in his video. Less is more when it comes to selection, then add areas of transition.
3. Take the time, as you might with the old extract filter, to brush carefully over the areas of transition to make sure you get all the strands.
4. Check your results against the white and black backgrounds using W and B shortcut keys to make sure you've got all the areas of transition you need.
5. Don't be afraid to use the Decontaminate Colors feature - possibly even cranked all the way up.
6. Understand that if you're masking someone Photographed in a light studio, that hair highlights and other visual cues might not look right against a dark background, and you may need to use the Burn tool or other techniques to help hide that. The eye/brain are great at picking up inconsistencies in the lighting, and that has little to do with masking.
As with anything, it takes some getting used to and practice, but the results can be quite good.
-Noel

Hello friends like everybody? I need help, I have the CC version 2014 and I can not ge "extract filter" because I get the following message: "Could not complete the Extract command, this version of Photoshot not offer the services required by the Plugin

I need help, i have the CC 2014 and i can npt get to associate the "extract filter"

How did you get the Extract filter into Photoshop CC? You will need to undo that - especially if you copied a whole batch of plug-ins supplied by Adobe with an earlier version.
-Noel

Extract Filter is sorely missed.

Can anyone tell me why Adobe doesn't want us using the Extract filter? Was it created by someone they don't like? Some copyright issue? There is nothing that works like it or replaces it. I am very frustrated! I am creating my psd files in CS4, then opening in CS6 to do the rest. I WANT MY EXTRACT FILTER BACK!

As far as I can tell one cannot save intermediate steps with Extract per se.
But quite frankly I have a hard time imagining what image/task would justify spending two contiguous hours in that feature.
Maybe you could work around it with the old Channel-methods or combine Masks arrived at both from extract as well as the various Selection-methods.

Photoshop CS5 Windows Version: Extract filter missing

Hi!
I have the trial english version of this software.
From where EXACTLY can I download this addtional plugin? (And why is it not in the SW in the first place?)
Best regards
Bryan Hayes

You say that Refine Edge is "lightyears better than old defunct Extract. Can you tell me how?
I had Windows PS7 before I bought this Mac CS5 and I used to get good results with the Extract Filter. Now I'm trying to extract a girl's picture to put into a composite image. I followed exactly the steps in Jan Kabili's video instruction [http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs5/using-improved-selecting-and-masking/] and I got awful results. Using "Smart Radius", sharp edges of the original selection became eroded several pixels back and both expanded selection and original selection turned gray wherever the refine radius tool was used.
Multiple passes with the "refine" tool seem to erase selected areas rather than increase them.
I noticed that another user had the same complaint in a mid May posting to the "where is extract filter?" thread.
I'd surely like to know how to make this thing work, because I have a three day deadline to get the project done.
Can you help?

Is there a way to disallow web pages to modify foreground color of elements if background of those elements was not changed as well (and vice versa)?

I have very sensible defaults for my display; i.e. I have dark GTK scheme (dark gray background, light gray text) that suits me way more when working on my computer while it's dark around. I, however, like looking at web pages as how they were mean to be seen. Unfortunately, most of web designers don't think about anyone having non-default colors set up.
Example one ( http://www.cedok.cz ):
This site's CSS style has "color: rgb(45, 45, 45);" for the whole <body> but for <select> elements there is no "background-color" set. This means there is a select box rendered with dark gray background and dark gray foreground (text color). This is pretty badly readable (obviously).
To mention one particular element from this site: e.g. <select id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolderLevySloupec_HledaniMultiTab1_HledaniZajezdu1_ddlTypZajezdu">
Example two ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/desktop/customize/form ):
On this page (where I'm currently filling in this question) the <textarea id="id_content"> has "background: ... rgb(255, 255, 255);" set, but with my default font color, this textarea is rendered as light gray text on a white background. Again, pretty unreadable (and eye-hurting).
I can provide screenshots and more reasoning if needed.
I'm asking if there is (or might be) an option (even disabled by default) or at least an add-on which would keep default colors unless both foreground and background colors were specified. I think this might make Firefox very usable for many people which like to have their default colors configured.
In case you won't be able to help me by fixing this, could you redirect me to the right place where I could get this requested in a way that might be really possible to happen (bugzilla?).
Thank you very much in advance.

Thanks for the reply, but I'm sorry, no. I don't want any addon that customizes colors, I want to use default colors and only prohibit changing them unless both background and foreground colors are changed.
I have made no color changes WRT to Firefox *only*, I just changed the default for the whole toolkit (gtk in this case). The thing I need is to disable changing *only one* property out of two ({back,fore}ground). Whenever the second one gets set as well, this new setting (both of them) may get reflected, but not before that. It'd be nice to keep this when changing the colors back (deleting the style), but that's not necessary.
I hope that's understandable, feel free to ask for if that's not the case.
To express what I mean a bit more precisely, see the attached image. In that image there are four textareas (one of the elements that gets affected by this). First one is a default one (which I want to have if the page has nothing set), the second one is nicely modified to fit for example to a blue-ish page (this one I like as well).
Second row of textareas shows how the final element looks like if the page has only one of these elements set up. First one changes background without changing font color, the second one vice versa. Both of them are very badly readable, especially with low lighting around.
This is consequently the same case when it comes to default page background which I cannot set at all, because too many pages have only "color:" set without changed background and that is completely messed up then. Going to extremes, I might mention all color-related modifications (see how ugly the borders look when the background is changed and nothing is done to these borders, their size and color is kept default), but I understand that's too much.

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Hey,
For a project I'm working on, I wrote a class that extends awt.Label. In this new class, I had to override the paramString() method to return what I wanted it to. This all works great. What I was wondering, is whether or not it was possible to change the foreGround color of the label from inside the class decleration. I was thinking maybe whenever the paramString() method was called. Any help would be appreciated.
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Gday,
I you use the mothed setForeground(Color c) it should set the foreground colour (color for you Americans) to what you would like.
see for more info
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/awt/Component.html#setForeground(java.awt.Color)
or
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/awt/Component.html#setForeground(java.awt.Color)
if you have jdk1.4
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Cant change color on visited sites without changing background /foreground colors that hide options on the sitec

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show all of the colors for controls etc on many websites.
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Google is a good example after doing a search, then change visited sites color, uncheck the allow pages button and then you can't see the search button and most of the options in the top right corner in google.
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* [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/colorific-1/ Colorific]
* [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/toggledocumentcolors-198916/ ToggleDocumentColors_]
* [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/color-toggle/ Color toggle]
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Edge Detection: The Extract filter was left out of CS4, although it was available as a separate install. (Rumor has it that the new Edge Detection feature wasn’t ready for CS4 and was pushed back to CS5.) While the Extract filter got a lot of bad press, it was really due to misuse. Luckily, Photoshop CS5 does a better job than the filter. Selection of complex edges, such as curly hair, has always been a problem. The Edge Detection setting is now part of the Refine Edge and Refine Mask dialogs. The feature is fairly easy to use: make a selection or a layer mask, open the Refine Edge dialog (Select>Refine Edge), and use the Refine Radius tool (E) to brush over the desired area. (There’s an Erase Refinements tool [just press Shift-E] in case you don’t like the results and want to try again.) In addition, there’s a Smart Radius checkbox with a Radius adjustment slider to make selections even easier. This tool makes short work of some tough selections, but it’s not for every image. I found it worked great on some images, but not others. You still might want to bone up on using the image calculations for advanced selections.

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softmonauts wrote:
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import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
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import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.ListCellRenderer;
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i thought i'd share what i've found. the solution seems to be quite simple: wrap the combobox label in a panel.Brilliant! I'm sure this will be useful to others who find this solution here.
Your code does have some unnecessary overheads though, like constructing a new JPanel in every call to getListCellRendererComponent, and holding a separate renderer as a field. I've attempted to clean it up for brevity and efficiency.import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.DefaultListCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
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    combo.setRenderer(new DisabledForegroundListCellRenderer());
    final JCheckBox check = new JCheckBox("Combo enabled");
    check.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
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}I've also changed the class name, as to me "ColorCellRenderer" would rather imply something that renders either the foreground or the background (or both) on the basis of the value parameter.
if anyone knows a way to remove the dropdown button of a disabled combobox without leaving a blank space when you simply hide the buttonThat would require a custom UI delegate, not a custom renderer. And really, I wouldn't bother -- I would just use a JComboBox and a disabled (or maybe uneditable) JTextField, held in a CardLayout, and swap them instead of disabling the combo.
Shall take a look at how the combo UIs reserve space for the button though :)
luck, db
Edited by: DarrylBurke -- changed wrapper to private final, it shouldn't be static

Force foreground color like in old Extract filter in CS5 masks

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