Remove Background in Adobe Photoshop

1. Introduction: Hi there, my name is Solomon. And in this class I'm going to show you how to move backwards in Photoshop. This class is meant for beginners and dummies. I'm going to go slow and deliver all the information. Soda vehicle full alone. In fact, there is a lot of ways of removing backgrounds in Photoshop. What I'm going to show you is a technique that works in most cases. And if it doesn't, only need to do is to fine tune your image a little fresh. Keeping in mind there is a lot of ways of moving backwards in fiducial. I'm just showing you a technique that I think works in most cases, and it's actually very simple. Let me show you how to do that before the FEC, anything that you like or teaches you something in this class. We will do two things for me. Firstly, give this class a timestamp. Secondly, write just in few ways why you are enjoying the class. These recommendations help other students to see that this is a class B too might enjoy and learn from. If you'd like to leave me a comment or a question, please do so. I read and respond to all your comments and your questions. And I look out and respond to all your class projects. 2. Part 1. Resources files: If you want to grab this technique in the same for two data, I'm going to use, use the link provided somewhere on the page too diluted and follow along easily. And also you can restate unspliced.com is see that I visit a sprite.com to dilute this in registry, can visit unsplash.com to dilute this images. But I will leave a link somewhere on the page for you to dilute them very easily. These are the images that we are going to work rate. And what we are going to do is to remove backgrounds of these images. 3. Part 2. Select and Mask Workspace Interface: The first is to actually open up the image in Photoshop like this, you select your image, click and drag, hover over Photoshop and then leave it. And it's going to appear in footage off for you. So I'm going to use this image from here. All you need to do is to go to Select and select a max, this dedicated USB Ethiopia to make precise. And Maxine, the left-hand side is c, is a tuba, which is also fine in the web love Photoshop interface that allows you to make selection at distillation, Zoom and also pan around your image. Above that is an option, but this gives you more settings for currently selected two. Onto the right, you see I just above properties, these control can further funding your max or selection. 4. Part 3. Select and Mask Tools and Panels Explained: By default on their properties panel, you'll be on the onion skin mood. And the transparency will be at 50 percent. In my case is 20 percent, and then transfer it to allow you to see that we have selected up against the original image. In this case, we don't have anything selected through the original image is viewed as 20 percent since my eyes at 20 percent once we start selecting for it. And when you use the Quick Selection Tool, I've seen, you see the selected style will be viewed at a 100 percent up against the original image background which will be viewed at 20 percent are yours, will be viewed at 50 percent depending on the percentage that you have here. In fact, there is a lot of ways of making installation and Maxine in the select and mask workspace, you can start by using the Quick Selection 2, as we have already used, and you click and drag over the areas that you want to select. And photoshop automatically define the edges and select the e-mail that you reach towards the light. And also you can use the zoom tool is here. You can click on that and you can zoom around and you can click on the hand to move your documents are wrong. And also when you are selecting with the quick selection to a new selected and we want to bring that area in, is that when we are making the selection is on the Add Selection. So we can also subtract from the selection. So when we click on that, and let's zoom in. Then on the Quick Selection 2 minus on the top. And we can also subtract the selection that we don't want. That's one way of making selection in the selected max workspace. 5. Part 4. Using Adobe Ai to Select Subject: If you are working on a newer version of Photoshop, like Photoshop 2020 or 2021, like using the photo joke 22 right now, you can click on this select subjects over here. And Photoshop will use artificial intelligence, known as Adobe sense to make the selection around the image for you. So right up here you can see select subjects. So when you click on it in Photoshop for dental me, this or discard your current selection. Do you want to continue? Yes. And it is going to use the AI to make the selection for me. Alright, so for me our double-click on the Hangzhou to view the image as a 100 percent or to fit the screen. So you can see Photoshop did a fantastic job. It took only one click. Any crazy Photoshop is able to make the selection around the edges. So let me zoom in and see that the selection may not be perfect, but we can fed up fine tune this to get the preferred result that we are looking for. Also assign this. I want to show you a tool that will allow you to do this in an inmate that has two or more subjects and you only want to keep one. So let me switch this one to a different image and then we will come back and continue from here. 6. Part 5. Using Adobe Ai to Select Image that has more than one Subject: In this image we have more than one Soviet, about eight to ten people. And if we click on Select Subject, Photoshop is going to select are the main subject that is CCA buy we don't want that, so we will use the object selection to click on that and make sure that the mode is set to lasso. And then we are going to make a very loose selection. So maybe you want to select only this woman. So you have to do is to make a very loose selection around it in the footage. And we're going to use eight at Fisher in Delegate suits. The latest update for you and all you have to do is to just wait patiently for it to finish. If you have image with more than one subject, then use the object selection tool to select the main subjects. And if the image has only one subject, then click on the Select Subject button to make the selection for you. So right here we can see that the image is being selected for us, and that is the power of artificial intelligence in Adobe Photoshop. Back to our original image. Again, our click on Select Subjects and Photoshop is going to use it artificially intelligent, deselect the subject for me, this automatically generated selections are not perfect. They require some fine tuning z2. Let's work on that next. 7. Part 6. Refine your Selection: I'm going to select the zoom tool and then I'll zoom into the shoe. And normally it is a shoe or the fourth day we have problem when we use this type of selection to really help of the Zoom, to use Zoom and you consider part of the flow is being selected so we can increase the transparency up to maybe 60 percent Sudan. We will see the barcode EBIT up against the original enrich. So for me, when it is down, you can see a lot of the background image, but we want to see the image more than the background in B. So in this case we are going to see the areas that we don't want, but it is part of the installation. For me, we can define it and therefore we have a couple ways of adding or removing a die we don't want. We can start by using the Quick Selection Tool, everyday quick selection to select it. You can see this is a very tried to pin it to add the areas that we don't want back. Or if you want this eraser can just click and drag and it is going to add these areas. All right, so Control Z to undo. So for me with the installation to selected at the top, you can see we have them plus and the minus will click on the minus. End with the mind is when we click and drag is going to deselect the selection. And you can use the square brackets when a keyword to either increase the size of the selection or decrease its size. So we can use this to fine-tune the age of the shoes, so we'd have rights to select it. We can also paint with a minus, and it is going to erase the part that we don't want through the Quick Selection to the Bryce to iterate the scene or it's performed the same thing here. So we just have to choose between them which one you like. I think the price is working more than the Quick Selection Tool that I was using a media. Some part of the issue here is come to our click on the class to bring those areas back. Alright, and we can also use the shortcut on your keyboard, also on Windows Option on the Mac to erase the parts. And you can see that when I click on the odd, it changes from a plus. So you see this one has an a plus when it is on the plaza and I click on the odd, it comes to the minus 3. Can click on that to increase your workflow. And you can click and hold on the Space bar. And you see that it turns into a hand. You can use this one to pan around your image. I'm not going to spend much time here fine tuning this because this video will be two lungs, but please make sure you spend much time on your project to get a good result, to make sure you spend a lot of time on your project to bring all the details that you need to bring together good selection that you are looking for. 8. Part 7. Refine the Mask Edge with Global Refinement Sliders: But I'm going to do now is to fix them, muster out, double-click on the hand to fit the screen so that I can see the entire image. So what I mean by Max day, this is a relatively company layer marks in a non-destructive way of hiding pieces too. I want to adjust the edges of the MAC Sudan. They don't look Jackie blurry or have any unprofessional look through there, you can get a better car out in this by now we have the global refinements like this. We can see some with the feta contrast and shift. These ladies will conclude the edges of your max. And I knew if you're just starting out, you might not know what dummies who screw up and that view our select black and whites. So this is how our max looks like with maximize reviews and black conceals hey, images, right? Because we want to keep, hey, so what I'm going to do is to remove our jag is in this max Sudan, we have a better car out. So under the global refinements, our stairway, the smooth by, first of all, let me zoom in and you kind of see the image is not smooth. And we can also find some unprofessional Luke over here. Sseuda right here means that it's going to use a recurrent branch 2 and then brush over this lease minus elected us on obscene. When you select a plus, it means you want to add up please. We'll just clear this place. So our ad you to spend some thing to fine tune your maxilla. You get a good cut outs. So you have to use the Brush tool to remove are there on that but from your MCS varied a good verify, make our inquiry this smooth. And then lifo, what is going to happen? You can see that the edges now looks smoother than the elaboration or because of one-click by dragging this mudslides. And we can also increase feather, but FedEx simply means blurring and we don't want to blend it in some instances, you may need that. So let me increase this slider and let's see. So you can see that the ages of the images blade and we don't want that some instance you would like to increase the feather to have bled around your image. Then I'll increase the contrast later so the contrast slider will fit and make the edges sharper. So we're going to shift age sometimes when you create a selection in Mencius and fringes on the edges which was not cut out was week. So you can see the edges into reduce those fingers. So let me go to View and turn this one on black and non-black. We are going to see this image against black by Misha to increase the opacity slider over here to view that black 100 percent. So we can see this image up against a black background. Alright? Alright, so with the help of your zoom to see many Zoom meeting, you guys see that we have some more professional look on the edges of the selection. So what do we do to erase these fringes is to, is to shift the edges into, let me drag this ship edges later are the weights may be negative. So our sieve the edges light as E and it'll prevent those for engine. So you can see this is after, and this was before. So you can see before Androids, It's really add something to this. And it's very cool when you apply this technique. But something too, when you see that the fringes or this on professionals are two magic and easily pick the branch 2 and paints with maintenance to erase those unprofessional in your max and again in your previous events, electron more time than I am 21 in this more details will make a big changes. Our double-click on the 12 to fit to screen so that I can see the entire image. 9. Part 8. Refine the Hair: So first step is usually for selecting the entire body. And then the second step is for the, hey, my opinion is you get better results when you separate the two selection. So let me show you how to continue doing the second adjustments. So our drag the slider down and under outputs are willing to double-click and open the outputs. And then I will change the output from selection to layer max. Then click on AKI and Photoshop who moved apart by using a layer mask to a layer max is on the strategy we hide emphasis in. Otherwise you can always come back and bring back results that you hide. Also the soliton Maxwell species can edit layer masks. So what I'm going to do now is to go back to the Select and Mask 03. We can see this layer are measured at this one is active, so we can say counter is active. When you see the white line is on the thumbnail, then go to Window and then look for properties. You can find Properties. Click on that. And with the layer mask selected, you have an option to select and max. So click on that area, going to do the second step by refining the head of this image. And what I'm going to do now is first of all, I'll click on the Zoom too. And I'm going to zoom into the head. And I'll use this, this terrifying have price to our click on that. Then I'll use the square bracket on my keyboard to either increase the price or reduce the price. And when the price rises down and I price over this pleases, you can see we have some blue behaves when I click and drag over it. Photoshop is going to analyze the place and remove those pharyngitis or those things that we have the tightest not copy. So you can see Photoshop has done it pastes. And also if you are using a newer version of Photoshop like ion 2022, you can find on the top refined has, when you click on that, Photoshop is going to analyze the hair, remove any unprofessional from the head, and we are going to get better carve out some time and thus were sometimes doesn't ask for. So if the result is not appealing to you, then you can go back ME use their fine hair brush. In this case, it didn't work like I wanted to do. And I'm going to use the Refine him, I solved, refine these edges back out. Just click and drag these places to move any unprofessional from this IGS. And the reason I'm making all these adjustments on a separate steps and not on the original I just meant is that the global refinement, I just mean do not affect do not affect the hay, the smoothie in the contrast, the Shift Edge were intended for the age around her body and the edges, hey, hey, with very different. So usually when I get a good result, if I use the same technique for good firewood lines to secrete them Zoo now, I can just focus on the hair and all that I need to do is to simply continue painting and Photoshop who analyze the NBN will move in their own profession from the hair for me. So you can pick your time. So you can take your time on your own project to move all these things to get a better result because of time seek our posterior. And then, and then continuing the class. 10. Part 9. Add a New Solid Color Background: For me, what I'm going to do is that I can pick up my price. Here is my rise to and then we add feature selected. I can paint any place that I think it should come in. And if I'm satisfied with everything, then I'm going to scroll down outputs layer mass and click on AKI. So you can see that the changes that we applied to the max that we already created. Therefore here, good, I just made then our add a new solid color and I'll choose any current tsunami, choose gray. I'm just choosing a backbone and it doesn't matter the Canada you choose. And then for me, I'm going to drag this layer beneath the image and our double-click on the hand to view the image a 100 percent. So when I zoom in, you can see we have some unprofessional over here. And if you see any on prophecy or you need to do is to select your max and then select your brush. So the rise is also here, and you can use the square brackets either increase the price or reduce the price, ended up pins. You see that I painted black. So black is highly, and I can also switch to right. Make sure your opacity flow is 100 percent. And beings that back in. Click on the Hand tool to view a 100 percent. 11. Part 10. Refine the Mask with the Brush Tool: For me, I'm going to zoom in and like our scene, we can see some imperfection in our max. Thus, AKI, you can always paint back those areas with a brush to add or subtract to your max, y to add, black to subtract. Let me show you how that works. So for me, our zoom in and you can see we have some imperfection over here. Imperfection over here. So we are going to try to move this one. So with the mask selected, then I'll select my brush to over here. Then I'll reduce the size of the price. And we can also use the property panel. If you don't have yours go to window and you see property and we can sort of decrease the density sooner. I we can view this one against the original bug life if he can't tell the difference between the image and the background. So it is part of the bankers who are trying to remove these imperfections through our change the foreground color to black. And then our mean, this one with black energy is going to move this imperfection that we had over here changed to right, and let me print some poison of ITA. It was carve out so there are good on mine speeds, but to sue around the document and see whether we have any imperfection that I would like to bring to read my brush. Let me take black and let's see this place. We have some imperfection, enrich our lives to bring in. So let me paint with white. And you can see how amazing this encourages the any place that we issue count Readings. And we are going to simply get it if you make a mistake, Control Z to undo. And this is going to help you make a better car out there for me remember to increase your density slider back to a 100 percent. So we have this one against the background are we have. 12. Part 11. The Remove Background Button: I want to pinpoint that there is a future in Photoshop that allows you to make a max really quickly. That I didn't talk about. But I want to pinpoint it outs noun how it works. But first I need to delete my Maxwell right-click and you will see Delete layer max. I will delete that an hour. How my image back like as human isolates my window and then I look out for properties, click on that. And then when I move this group but down, you can see Remove Background. Click on that. Photoshop will use this theme, artificial intelligence inside the selector, maximum ISPs to analyze the image, make a selection, create layer max, or in one go. Right now that the barber has been removed with the help of the Remove Background. Let me take the zoom tool and let me zoom in. And you can see that Photoshop also did a best by moving the background like they seem to die. We take over the select and max rate speeds. The reason why I didn't use this one as a start, because when you do this, you have to assume, go back to the select and mask workspace to move this one professionals from your image. So you also have this at your fingertips if you need it. Our ISO for me are good to edit on to edit, undo, go back to my image that I've been editing. Then let me zoom in to see whether this one is it, okay, this is the image that I've been editing. What we are going to talk about now is to replace the background with an image to our select the background layer. Then I'll go to File and Place Embedded and our C Please embedded. Click on that. Then you go and look for a job document or a resource files are and you select die in May and it's going to place it in Photoshop fast. So our click on place and our weight for the image to lose our ISO, we have our background here. Then I'll click to resize it to fit the canvas. And then I'll click on the commit changes to save the changes. And this is how our bag looks and fits with our image. So for those of you who are a little more advanced, you know that there is a missing few things here, like shadows, highlights, color matching, and etc. Those things are at finance classes which are going to come on you is please be sure to always come back and check under class, but I have a new tutorial for you to watch or not. 13. Part 12. Final Words and Class Project: Thank you very much for being with me from the beginning of the course are the way to the end. And please, your project is going to visit unspliced.com to download one of these images of how leave a link to these images to download. And you can use this one in your projects or you can use the same image that I use ou our live. This somewhere on the page where you can learn. You can work on it as your project. And please, when you attend our live to see the result I get. So please make sure you share your project with us. 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