How to cut things out in photoshop adobe

#How to cut things out in photoshop adobe plus#
#How to cut things out in photoshop adobe free#

The mask can also be hidden by toggling the eye (visibility icon). Click the eye icon to go back to the mask view. The original photo is now visible and the mask appears as a reddish color. Click on eye icon to the left of RGB at the top of the Channels palette (Fig 5).

Sometimes it can be hard to guess which part of the image belongs in the foreground and a peek at the original image is needed. Use a white paint color to paint out the areas that should be removed. Use a larger brush for large areas and a smaller brush for finer detail such as around the feathers. Paint over all the areas that belong in the object to mask out. Choose a black brush and make the edge hard. In the levels Dialog box, click the black point slider on the left and drag it to the right until the gray areas have become a solid black, Slide the White point slider to the left until the whites are nice and clean and the grainy effect has gone. Here is a quick solution that I have come up with: Click Image>Adjustments>Levels. There are tiny dots also visible, there will make for a very messy selection. Notice that there are areas of gray, these would be semi-transparent and need to become solid black and white (except for areas that should be semi transparent such as soft edges). Black represents the areas that we want to keep and white, the areas to be discarded. The advantage of using a channel is the ability to fine tune the selection without effecting the original image. The main window will now turn black and white. Press вЂњCtrl/Cmd+DвЂќ to Deselect and click on Alpha 1 in the channels palette. Click the save selection as channel button, itвЂ™s the second one to the left on the bottom of the channels palette. With the selection active, switch to the Channels palette.

#How to cut things out in photoshop adobe plus#

Tip: To add a color to the selection click on the eyedropper tool with the plus sign and click in the image. Move the Fuzziness slider until the image is mostly black and the background is a clean as you can get it. You will see the selected color turn white in the dialog box. When the Color Range Dialog box open, choose the Left Eye Dropper tool and click on the background color in the image window (pink). Hide the background by clicking off its visibility icon. This way the original is preserved on the background and we are working on a duplicated layer. Making selections and cutting out hair in photoshop CC The advanced method of making selections Step 1 I have made an updated tutorial below for Photoshop CC 2019+

#How to cut things out in photoshop adobe free#

Refine Edge in CS6 and earlier We also have another method of extracting in this free video tutorial