Long Shot - Automatic Masking & Vectors

[AFK_Matrix]

Hi,

I have around 100+ large satellite images that I need to mask up in Photoshop so i can overlay things like trees, cities etc that are of higher res.

Now it takes ages to do this by hand and I have been looking for ways to try and automate this or at lease speed things up. I have got the demo of Fluid Mask and this is a good start as masking the image up is a lot quicker with this software but i am wondering if I can get it even quicker or even a way to automatically mask stuff.

I have also been looking at software that takes raster images and turns them into vector images/file. Now this is kind of working I have managed with one bit of software to create a black and white vector image that I can use as a mask but that covers the whole image so it still needs work to cut it up for use on trees, cities etc.

So is there a vector program out there that will either vector by colour or allow me to choose which bits of an image to vector?

 

[gord]

You can vector by colour in PS if you use select, colour range, and then convert your selection to a path.

Illustrator has live trace, which is its inbuilt raster -> vector tool.