today we're revisiting the tutorial for background removal using Photoshop mix
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here to help you with tech wherever possible today we're going to revisit
the tutorial we did some time ago using Photoshop mix to remove your background
from your photos hey if you're into technology software Mac PC iOS and more
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it's posted hey let's get right into the video now last time that I did the
tutorial when I put it up it and I showed a very basic way of coming out
now there's some added features in Photoshop mix that I didn't go into and
today I'm going to look at those a little bit more detail again in the
premise of cutting the background out for the purpose of making something like
a just coming up your head your face cutting out an object for youtubers that
would be useful for making thumbnails so we're gonna look at how we're going to
do that so let's go back to trusty Photoshop mix and you can see I'll be
playing with that since I've got a couple of mold cutouts they're from iOS
recording tutorial so we're gonna add a picture today we're going to take a
picture with my iPad and then we're gonna bring it in we can actually take a
picture from within Photoshop mix a couple of things you can see I'm wearing
a blue shirt so one of the things that you want to look for when you're taking
your photos in the first place is making sure you've got something something
contrasting in the backgrounds that make it easier something playing then take it
outside we have a lot of foliage and learn that one the hard way what you'll
find that you'll get all different depths and colors and and be very hard
for it to find the definition of the outline that you're looking for we've
got some light we've got a cream color back there
which is gonna be a bit uneven but we'll use it anyway I want to make a fun there
I wanna cut myself has a little bit awkward not the best background maybe I
need to look at the lens I keep looking at the screen this is really awkward
I don't know how vloggers do it okay if I'm gonna pull Oh that'll do and we're
in the Photoshop mix let's see if we can do this never casting better shadow was
a bit close to the curtain not the ideal but now we've got the photo in Photoshop
mix which is the first step so what we do is go to the cutout like we did
before yeah last time we had use of smart
cutout there's different options then I can get auto and it's gonna do something
here let's see well it does it's basically give me a rough idea it's this
a little bit rough around the edges there's a bit of overlap that's giving
me the auto you could go with that I could exhale to that say no I'd like to
go start with the smart and then work from there so you can save the so go add
and subtract with the add selected everything's everything's transparent it
out so I want to select myself so I'm gonna start running my finger sort of
around covering different sections as it as it reads the section it knows oh
that's a very different color there let's skip up around the head here and
it's a little bit rough there good that that's rough I'm ready this thing
there's a few bits around the neck there that it not cut out quite right and
around the head so what we're gonna do is I'm just going to go to the subtract
against it with the feeling some of those bits then you can zoom in but by
pinch pinching out rub that's really rough I'm dragging with two fingers to
do this that's actually quite move around the neck there and up here in and
I that's scary and we can sort of go there you can see how it's really rough
on the edges so I'm gonna be shut back out we're gonna go to another tool now
what you call the last suit I'm gonna leave it on add because I want to go
over any edges here draw a basic line there anything that I'll highlight is
probably going to be added back in you can like this and smooth lines
you can see that there we go subtract I can sort of run my finger there you get
like a smoother you had am an iPad pro we say a stylus you might be able to get
a little bit more fine control we can smooth out some of these rough edges
obviously I've got a bit of it there so we're subtracting still suck in the city
I'm just trying to go for smoothing out some of the bumps just by using the
lasso tool just to smooth out the edges somewhat let's resume it you can see the
edges on this side here and you can see you can just use that lasso tool to
fine-tune we do basic shapes and stuff using the shape tool here if you wanted
to add or subtract of a shape the refine tool and the smooth tool smears all the
edges gives you like like that like a feather like you're coding like like
Photoshop another you can feather the edges which is may not always be
practical what you want there but you're there's different tools there the
chicken go with and you've got your basic brush control we can just sort of
brush and add a bit further Lee I like to use the last su and the smart tool
just to get most of it done and just touch it off so that's mostly what we
want now so that we're done there anyway you can see what also does is it trims a
picture upping it so now the check it area is like a PNG is transparent so
there's our cut out there yeah it's always a little bit rough you could you
could do a bit more work on that again similar to the last tutorial it's the
same sort of thing we've just gone through a few more of the cut out
features go back out to the main menu and let that save as it does a little
save it saves it to your little Photoshop Photoshop mix account Adobe
account what if it would have you like and also once that's done we can export
that to you know Camera Raw like we normally do so if we have a look at our
camera roll now
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