How to make a photographed object free standing

Hi.
For a client I photographed a bottle of wine (in a white tent with a couple of softboxes, got a nice photograph). Now the client want the bottle free standing without background for easy use on his website etc. How can I do that using CS4 or do I need other software. I tried to use the magnetic lasso but I'm not satisfied. Anyone with a suggestion/solution? Thanks. BO

I'd still use the pen tool. If you are going for translucency, then there is a tendency for the back light to wrap round the bottle leaving a very indistinct border between the edge of the bottle and the background, and Refine Edge is not going to do well with that. The trick — if you know you are going to cut out the bottles — is to have the backlight _just_ wide enough, or to be careful to manage the exposure. Then there is the cap — no one uses corks here anymore — which has super fine edge detail, and is going to look horrible with anything other than a clean selection using the Pen tool.
Dark field is even more problematic, for a lot of people as they just don’t seem to understand the angles, and have way too big a light source placed too close behind the dark background. Plus everyone I see seems to want to overexpose the rim light. You can get translucency with dark field by placing a bottle shaped cut-out behind the bottle at 45° to the lens axis, and fire a snooted strobe in from the side.
Light tents make life easy, but you don’t have the control with them. Having said that, I did resort to a light tent for a bottle of Rosé recently that was proving super difficult to photograph, but I still ended up faking a lot of it in Photoshop.

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