Click
on the chilé to the left to down load the high resolution JPEG
(make sure your browser is set to open JPEGs in Photoshop).
When you get it open in Photoshop,
take the Pen tool and draw a path around the chilé, including
the stem. Draw the chilé the way it will look after you clone
or paint out the overlapping grass stems. You will have to work
fairly large to determine the subtle shape of the chile.
As you can see above, you will have to make a careful educated guess as to the edge of the chilé. When you get to the stem you will have to continue the shape as you know it will have to look like.
As you can see there is certainly some guesswork going on here. Continue around the chilé in one continuous path. Then open the Path palette and double click on Work Path and name it chile.
Then click on the path in the palette and, using the Options popup at the upper right of the palette choose Make Selection. Set the dialog box to Feather: 1 pixel and Anti-alias
Then you need to switch to the move tool and Copy the selection to the Clipboard. Then open a New document; RGB; transparent background at the size it gives you (which will be the size of the image in the Clipboard). When it is open, paste in the copied chilé. It will look like you see below (if you did it right).
So Command/Control-click on the thumbnail in the layer containing the chilé to select it. Make the selection a work path, name it chile, and make chile a clipping path (all done in three separate steps using the Option menu in the Paths palette).
Then you will have to get rid of the grass leaf (I used the Brush and a Rubber Stamp tools).
Thankfully, the new document is at 72 dpi currently, so all you have to do is open the Image Size dialog box; turn off resampling; and change the 72 dpi to 1200 (which will make the chile about .6 inch wide); then turn on resampling; and change the resolution to 300 (it will end up 174 pixels wide). Then save a copy as an EPS or PSD.
Send it in to your instructor for grading.
