For this one we're gonna take a look at the quickest way to remove a background.
you can go to file
and open
And scroll up to zoom into the image.
to get to the tool
You want to go down to the fourth tool down and this is the Object Selection Tool.
if you right click on it
It will be in here
So it'll be together with the quick selection tool and the magic wand.
if you don't see it straight away
Then you could just right click on in it should be in there.
the first one is a single selection
which means you can only
have a
Singular selection. You cannot edit it. You cannot subtract or do anything with it.
So that is the first one.
The second one is all about adding on to the current selection
So if you wanted to we can add more or you could take away or you could keep on editing
The selection as many times as you want.
The third option is all about subtract. So it's all about taking away.
if you wanted to you can take away from the selection just by going around the areas that you don't want
or you want to remove from your selection.
and the very last one is all about a custom shape inside of the
image that you have
so if you wanted to you can create yourself a box and that will only select the areas inside of that box.
And it will get rid of all the other selections and it will only keep that box.
So with the modes you have rectangular and a manual lasso tool.
with the rectangular tool
this will allow you to create a box around the object that you want to select and then of course the
Lasso tool is all about freehand selection. So you can pretty much go around the selection
You want it to select. We're going to use the rectangular one and then moving on to the next options that you have available.
This is completely up to you. If you wanted to you can turn on auto enhance or you can have object subtract
Which is the one I use I like to use the object subtract because it allows me to quickly swap over between plus and minus.
And finally, we have two more buttons at the end. So the first one is select subject
This is a one-click selection
If you click this the computer will pretty much try to guess what the object is that you want it to select.
So with the rectangular mode
Let's say you had multiple people in the image or you have more people or objects that you want to select.
All you got to do with the object selection one
Is left click and drag yourself a box around the object.
and this will pretty much
Detect what it is that you are trying to select.
So just like the quick selection tool it may not be as accurate and it may not get every single bit in
And this is when we can pretty much
edit the
selection.
Now like I mentioned before the object selection tool is tied in with the quick selection tool and the magic wand.
So if we wanted to we can quickly switch over to the quick selection tool
And then turn this into a minus and then take away from here.
Or we can
Add on to it, so if we wanted to include it into the image, so as you can see
We've just added it back on.
If you wanted to do you can also go to the polygonal lasso tool and that one will let you edit it as well.
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At the moment the glasses aren't in a but I'm not too fussed about that because I will fix that
Once we start to edit it a little bit more.
Once you've selected most of your image or the object that you want it to select.
All you got to do is you've got to go to select and mask.
This option will only appear if you are in the selection options, so if you are in the select
Or the object selection tool.
If you're in the other tools, it won't appear. So you need to make sure you are selecting the object selection tool.
Once you've selected it, you go to select and mask and this will bring you to this window right here.
Things are a little bit more different now, you will have some options.
Yours will be on the right side but I've moved mine over to the left side
So it's easy to see.
We're going to get ourselves the refine edge tool and then we're gonna fix up the hair
So as you can see the hair isn't looking so good at the moment. It is quite rushed.
So what we're going to do is, you can increase the size by pressing the square bracket on your keyboard.
And then we're going to go around the hair like so.
And as you can see, it's already starting to remove the white areas. It will also bring back any other hair
So as you can see when we get to this hair down here, it will bring it back into the image.
And there we go, that is not looking too bad.
If you wanted to you can show edges only so this will preview the edges
So this is what we've done.
So what we're going to do now is we're going to edit this a little bit more and we're going to un-tick this
and then
Get rid of these glasses right here.
Now. The reason I've done it like this is because I could have gotten rid of it before
but as you can see
We've still got a little bit of a fog effect on to it, so I did remove it
But because I've refined it it looks a lot better than if we was to fully remove it.
So that's not looking too bad at the moment. I'm going to fix the forehead a little bit as well right there.
It's looking a bit rough. So as you can see, it's already started to make it smoother and a little bit there as well.
Go around it.
You can also apply it to the top.
It will give it that effect of a jumper or a sweater, whichever one you prefer to call it.
So that's not looking too bad at the moment we can once again show the edges. We're also going to do it here as well.
what it would look like originally so as you can see before and then this is after.
a lot better than before.
You can also have high quality preview if you wanted to.
you can turn down the opacity
you can also change the color if you wanted to so, for example, if we want the background color to be let's say blue
Or we can have it as a white.
Dark color, you can have it. Whatever you prefer. You could change it in here.
You have some other options as well. So you have the radius, smooth, feather, contrast and soft edge or Shift edges*.
should i say, my bad.
What these options do is these will determine whether you want to sharpen your edges.
So for example if you had some rough edges
You can get yourself a radius of how much you want it to apply.
You can get yourself how much you want it to smoothen out the edges.
You can give it a little bit of a feather so you can pretty much play about with the feather and the sharpness
To achieve what you are looking for and then you also have contrast as well.
at the moment is not looking too bad
I'm quite happy with what it looks like. I think there's a little bit down here that I missed
So I'm going to fix that up as you can see.
There's that little bit of a white area.
All you got to do is go down to where it says output to and then I like to set it as a new layer.
And then once you've set is a new layer, you can then go ahead and press ok.
and the background will pretty much be masked.
So now it's completely gone.
You'll still have your original one as you can see underneath it.
But, your new one will be right there.
If we have a look at the bits that we've just removed it's looking pretty good. Some edges may be a bit soft.
So as you can see right here.
But to fix this all you got to do is press CTRL + J.
and then this will get yourself another copy of it and this will make it a little bit more solid around the edges.
Or the bits where you've done.
So I'm quite happy with that. What I'm going to do is I'm going to merge these two together.
so if you go to convert smart object, and if you wanted to you can rasterize as layer.
To put this back into a normal layer so you can edit it.