Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Incorporated, and I am in
no way affiliated with Adobe. Okay guys, so on this tutorial, I'm going to show you how
to use something called color range. Color range is a certain way to extract something
from the background. This works especially well if you have a kind of a white background
like I got here. So basically, what you want to do is you want to work on the top layer,
and of course I named it background earlier. I'm going to name it background again. What
you want to do is you want to go up to select; hit color range. Now, if you go down to the
word highlight, as you can see right there; you just click on that; oops, I clicked on
midtone. Click on highlight, and it's actually going to show you this weird looking image
of my dog. Hit okay, and now you got all these weird looking lines everywhere. If you go
to select up here on the menu, and hit inverse, and now it inversed everything. Now, all you
have to do is hit command, or control J on a PC, and now you got yourself a layer of
a dog that is kind of weird looking as you can tell already. If I actually go and hit
the; oh, let me take off the eyeballs real quick on the bottom two layers, so you can
actually see what we're working with. And I can actually make a new layer just above
the background layer, and fill that in with white by hitting alt, backspace, or alt, delete;
and we have to make sure that white is selected over here. Alt and delete, and now you got
the dog on a white background that is pure white. If you go back up to your dog, and
you go into your history brush, which is right here on your palette, if I click and hold
you can see history brush, and there's a Y next to it. Okay, if you have this on a hundred
percent and you want to bring the hardness up to like twenty, make sure your mode up
here is on normal, and now you can just click and drag over the ears and parts of the dog
that are not in color. As you can see, the history brush is bringing back everything
that is the white of the, but looks kind of funny, so you're going to have to figure out
exactly where that is, and more than likely, it's just where the highlights are on the
dog. So, you're going to have to play around with it, and kinda' just toy with it just
a little bit, and go back and forth, and back and forth, and try to find the areas of the
dog that are actually not in color. As you can see, there's plenty areas everywhere on
this photograph where they have actually just taken out, but what I can do is go along with
my history brush and color everything back in.
Now, as you can see, there's areas that are colored yellow still, like I accidentally
colored with my history brush there. You can take that out. You just want to use the eraser
tool, and just, you just erase. You can erase everything out that you don't want, and I
don't want his tail in there, so I'm taking it out. So as you can see, now we have our
dog, and and it still looks kind of funny over here. I'm going to hit my history brush,
and bring in the rest of his leg there; bring in his back. Now, as as you can see, that
was a very quick process, and if you if you kind of mess up in certain areas, just kind
of use your eraser brush tool to erase, and then go back with your history brush if you
see somewhere else that kind of looks like it needs to be in, and but as you can see,
it gives a image of the dog on a separate background by itself, and you can actually
add whatever color you want now. So, that is one way to take your background, and take
it out and separate it from the image.