The Ultimate Background Removal Guide with PhotoShop
Now start painting with the brush over the dragons head and ornaments. To do this, pick the brush tool and make sure that the foreground is black and the background is white. The black foreground adds the mask, and the white foregound removes it (press X to change the foreground/background color from white to dark). It doesn’t matter if you go a little over bored with the painting brush.
To make a good selection, you must brush more then once on the same spot. You can see the effects of poor brushing when you get out of the Quick Mask mode and press delete. The badly selected parts will look faded.
After you brushed the life out of the dragon, take a look at your selection out of the Quick Mask mode.
The reason for which we must do this, is to see what we actually selected. Here we can see that some parts are not selected(like the mustache and the mouth of the dragon), or there is an over selection .
Go back to Quick Mask and start selecting the mustache and the mouth.
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I would to the motorcycle again. I had a blast!
Awesome Tutorial of remove background as I ever seen. 🙂 Keep doing I Like it 5+++++
Great tutorial. Don’t forget about Refine Edge in CS5 as well. It’s by far the most powerful way to remove subject or backgrounds especially when dealing with hair and subject matters that don’t have a decent contrast against the original background.
with refine edge I was able to select the eagle. could not do a good job without it.
Excellent! Thanks…
Why do people show their skills using simple images ???
It would be better and more educational had you used one image with each tool illustrating what, why, how and when …
AND, use a complicated image like male and female photos with complex background doing “HAIR” background extraction —
You showed nothing productive found everywhere on the Internet —
My key objective was NOT! to show my skills, but to teach somebody something new. To make someone know what that tool can do, but not on its own, in a combination with other tools or process. What tool to use on a picture is essential.Where you going to use a pen tool for the flower with the background instead of the background removal tool? Some people don;t even know that tool exists (beginner or advanced).
Just because you find it boring, doesn’t mean others will. Life is not about you! If you haven’t notice my life doesn’t evolve around attention sluts like yourself.
Productivity is a process, how you get there is up to you.
Thank for this tutorial. I know many people who need this done for them and now I can do the work. LOL I am a beginner to Photo Shop but an avid user of PSP by Corel. I got bored.
Your well described tut was good, I do have a suggestion::: when using the screen shot…write what numbers or colors we need because I could not see your options on the screen shots.
I am a tutorial writer for Paint Shop Pro Photo so I thought I would give to you what has given me freely. Hope I didn’t hurt your feelings.
Hugs,
Olivia
Not problem! Feedback is good, good or bad, it’s the same for me. Thank you for the advice, I will take this in consideration on future tutorials.
Hello,
I actually took 1 hour to go trough all your pages of this tut. I knew some of the methods before, but it was very helpful.
Thanks for your time and effort you put into this.
Cheers!
My key objective was NOT! to show my skills, but to teach somebody something new. To make someone know what that tool can do, but not on its own, in a combination with other tools or process. What tool to use on a picture is essential.Where you going to use a pen tool for the flower with the background instead of the background removal tool? Some people don;t even know that tool exists (beginner or advanced). Just because you find it boring, doesn’t mean others will. Life is not about you! If you haven’t notice my life doesn’t evolve around attention sluts like yourself. Productivity is a process, how you get there is up to you.
Hi! I’m pro user (since 5.0 version) and i’m impressed with this tutorial. Well done! I guess you mention all the possible ways to do this. I also use the channels sometimes. Congrats!
Thank you! I’m glad you like it.
Could someone create a AutoPager profile for this website?
Thanks.