For this one we're going to take a look at how to remove a background in Photoshop.
So we've had a look at different variations.
But for this time we're going to take a look at the pen tool and we're going to get the best results
For cutting out
Removing, deleting and
Changing a background.
Once you've got yourself the image into Photoshop.
You want to go all the way down to the pen tool which is right down here.
Right click in here.
And get yourself the pen tool.
The very first one is the tool mode.
If you click in here.
You will either have the option between shape or path.
You want to make sure you've set this one to path.
Go over to the right side.
Go over to the gear icon.
And in here you'll have two options which will allow you to change the thickness of the path.
Or if you wanted to you can change the colour.
So it's pretty much all down to preference.
Left Click once you get yourself a point.
And then if you Left Click again
You get yourself another point.
So this will automatically create you a straight line.
If you was to Left Click once
And then Left Click again and then hold it in, this will give you a curved line.
So as you can see, we're just holding in the Left side of the mouse.
Now when it comes to the hair, you don't need to select the hair.
So
What
You would do is you would pretty much get yourself a bubble around the hair like so.
So this is would you do to the hair.
Now with the pen tool it's very customizable so if you wanted to re-edit the selection
You can just Left Click on here to add yourself a point.
And by holding CTRL or COMMAND on your keyboard
This will switch over to the move..
Cursor.
And you just pretty much want to Left Click
While holding CTRL
And you can move this wherever you want, so you can re-edit it.
Move this one
Slightly up to here.
And for the very first we're going to Left Click and then drag this out to get our self a curved line.
And once we've got our self a curved line you also want to hold ALT
OR OPTION Key.
And then Left Click on the point right here.
The reason for this is because it will stop it from automatically curving.
So on the next if we wanted to, we can pretty much create another custom one.
Another cool little trick is, you can hold Spacebar and this will quickly swap on over to the free hand move tool.
And yeh, you pretty much want to go all the way around your image.
Making sure you get all the edges.
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When you get to the very last one
All you have to do is Left Click on the very first one that you created.
And this will connect all your points up together.
We can go to Selection, right at the top.
In here set it to 0% for the feather radius.
Then go ahead and press OK.
And this will create you, your selection.
This bit right here we need to de-select that area.
Best thing to do is to go to the third tool down
Right Click on here and then go and get yourself the Polygonal Lasso Tool.
You want to make that the mode is set to the second one right here.
And this will allow you to add on to the selection.
And then you pretty much want to hold ALT
OR OPTION Key
And then Left Click on here.
So then you can let go of ALT or OPTION Key.
And then just continue on
Removing this bit right here.
Now if you ever make a mistake
Like for example here.
You can press Backspace and this will take you back a previous step.
We're going to take our time.
Once you get to the very last one, you want to hold CTRL
OR COMMAND and then Left Click to connect it all up.
So that bit is now de-selected.
We also want to do it to this bit right here.
We can now scroll out with ALT or OPTION Key.
And we can pretty much move on to the next step which is to remove the background from the hair.
Now to remove the background from the hair we're going to use a different tool.
So to use that tool you want to go to the second tool down.
In here you'll see something called "Select and Mask"
You just want to go ahead and press it.
And this will open up this window right here.
Go ahead and go to the second tool down which is the "Refine Edge Brush Tool".
Then you want to use the square brackets on your keyboard.
To make it smaller or larger.
And I would personally recommend anything between 40 to 60 is the best because the bigger
The less accurate it becomes.
We're going to start on the bottom bit right here and you just simply want to Left Click
And then you just want to go into the hair.
Removing the background.
You can go back out
And then back in.
You don't want to go too deep
But you want to make sure that you remove
Every little gap as well.
So as you can see we're pretty much removing the background.
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And there we go. You can now let go of it.
And we've pretty much removed the background from the hair.
Now the next step is to go to view.
And in here we're going to go on a Black and White preview.
And we want to also go to the third tool down
Which is the Brush Tool.
And we just want to clean up the rest of the areas
That are in the image so for example you can see the little mist area right here.
So to use the Brush Tool. Same as normal
You want to hold ALT
And this will change it into a minus. You can Left Click and then you can let go of it.
And this will let you to remove the
Extra bits that we don't want.
Once again we can use the square brackets to make the
Brush size smaller.
Right, so there we go.
We can go back to the normal preview by going on the overlay.
Sometimes you'll have a little bit of a colour tint or colour splash
Onto the hair.
And to fix that all you have to do is go all the way to the bottom
And you'll see something called Decontaminate Colours.
And you want to Left Click on here.
But the next thing to do is to fix up the spikes
And you want to go back to the Black and White preview.
So in here, same as last time we're going to go down to the polygonal lasso tool. Which is right here.
You want to hold ALT or OPTION Key.
Left Click on here.
And we're going to pretty much take away
This area right here.
So we're going to zoom in and we're going to scroll across.
So to show you it, a bit of an example is we're going to go all the way back to the first one.
And then of course once again
You want to hold CTRL or COMMAND
And then Left Click.
And you can now see that, that extra area has now been removed.
And yeh, you pretty much want to keep on doing that all the way around it.
And then after that you want to go ahead and Left Click onto here.
And then you want to add it onto here.
And the reason for this is because
Since we used the brush tool to remove the background from the hair
It's also removed some of the colour
From the actual spikes itself.
And then go back to the very last one.
Hold CTRL or COMMAND
And then Left Click.
So if you have a look at the spike now compared to the other ones.
This is the one that we've just re-added back on to the image
And these are the other ones.
Once you're happy with all your results and you've had a look at your image. Everything is looking all good.
You can then scroll all the way to the bottom.
And go to Output To.
In here you want to go ahead and set this one to a New Layer.
And then go ahead and press OK.
And there we go, so we've pretty much removed the background.
A cool little trick for this if you wanted to, is you can press CTRL + J.
And this will basically get yourself a copy of that
Layer and this will make the hair look more solid on the edges.
And then finally if you wanted to make it look even better around edges on the hair.
Is.. you can
Create yourself a new layer above this one.
Get yourself the Brush Tool.
With the Brush Tool you want to hold ALT or OPTION Key.
And then Left Click
Onto the
The colour right here to sample that colour.
You want to hold CTRL or COMMAND.
Left Click on the thumbnail for your main image.
You want to go to the brush settings.
Set it to about 100.
And then hardness on 0.
And you pretty much want to Left Click
And then simply add the colour onto the edges.
This makes the edges more visible.
So as you can see the hairs
The little fine hairs are becoming more visible on the edge.
So we can add a few right at the top here.
You can then go ahead and press CTRL or COMMAND and D.
And there we go.
If you wanted to you can also set the layer to a colour
And this will actually blend in with the colour.
Now the difference isn't huge
But it does help with the little fine details as you can see
The edges pop out more.
And makes it look at lot better.
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