Removing a background in Photoshop has just got even easier with the new 2022 Photoshop update.
So for this Photoshop tutorial. I'm going to show you how to use that new feature
And remove a background in Photoshop.
To get to the tool, you want to go to the fourth tool down.
Right click in here.
And get yourself the Object Selection Tool.
Now many of us know this, when it was first released in 2020.
It basically used Adobe Sensei
Which is a smart AI.
And it automatically detects the person or object that you want it to select.
Now if you click in here after the 2022 update.
You'll now notice there is some more options right at the top here.
So.. these are pretty self-explanatory and pretty basic.
But we're just going to go over them because I feel like it's important to know.
So the first one is all to do with toggling this feature OFF and ON.
So for example..
If you now hover over your image you will now notice it will highlight
Anything that you want it to select.
So as you can see it has now picked up the person.
And it's has given us a preview
Of what it's going to look like if we was to create the selection.
Next to this you'll have the refresh.
So if your image or your picture didn't quite pick up or highlight correctly
You can refresh this.
Next to that we have the Show All Objects.
If you had multiple people or objects in your image
You would just click this one
And it will automatically select those objects.
And then finally we have the very last one which is the gear icon and this is the options for this tool.
You can either have it on Auto-Refresh.
Or Manual Refresh so basically..
If you wanted it to automatically detect
As soon as you opened it up
You leave it on this one.
But if this was annoying and it just slowed things down then set it to manual.
And then you also have things like overlay options. This is all down to your preference, if you want to change colour.
You can just simply go with any other colour.
Just by changing it in here.
If you wanted to..
Instead of it being selected on the inside
You can set it to the outside
And this is select the outside rather than the inside.
And of course you can also change the opacity so we can have it on something much lower
Or something much higher depending on..
What you want it to look like.
And then finally we have Auto-Show Overlay
Always Show Overlay
And Never Show Overlay.
We're going to close this down.
And once you're ready
You can hover over the person or object.
And then Left Click and this will automatically..
Select the person.
Now it's not going to be perfect.
So for example as you can see around the neck area
It's selected a little bit of the background
But that's completely fine because we can modify the selection.
So you just want to make sure that you're on the Add Mode right at the top here.
Which will allow you to modify the selection.
And you just want to simply..
Hold ALT or OPTION key.
Left Click.
Drag this out and then you can let go of ALT
And let go of the Left Click.
And what this will do is it will subtract that specific selection.
So once you've got yourself the selection.
You want to go ahead and click on the button which will say Select and Mask.
This will bring you to this window right here.
Which you can do all of the refinements and make the edges look a lot better.
So what we're going to do is.. we're going to
Hold ALT or OPTION key.
And then *Scroll Up* to zoom in.
And has you can see..
We still have some of the background remaining on the outline.
So what we want to do first of all, is we want to get our self the second tool which is the Refine Edge Brush Tool.
You want to set it to about 50 *pixels*.
And set it to 100% hardness.
Once you've done this..
You then want to go ahead and Left Click
And just simply just remove the background
From this bit right here.
So as you can see it's now separating the hairs..
And the person
From the background and just cleaning up the edges making them look at lot neater.
So then, also going to do it to the hairs right here so select yourself a background.
Go further down.
We're going to select these hairs right here.
Which is going to re-add them back on.
Get yourself a selection.
And just go all the way..
Around here.
Like so.
And there we go.
We're also going to select these ones right here.
Include these.
That one as well.
Make our way back.
And just...
Yeh, make sure you get rid of all the green. We don't want the green.
At all.
We're going to go back up here.
Try your best to stay on the hairs as well.
Otherwise it's going to include other unnecessary things.
So just go all the way down here.
Select yourself this bit.
And also this bottom bit right here.
So yeh, you just basically want to go all the way around.
Making sure that you refine all the edges.
Using the Refine Edge Brush Tool.
Sometimes you'll get areas like this where it cannot tell the difference between the background and the person.
So to fix this we're going to go to the lasso tool.
You want to Right Click in here.
And get yourself the Polygonal Lasso Tool.
You then want to hold ALT.
Left Click once.
And then you can let go of ALT
And go all the way around.
De-Selecting areas that you don't want it to include.
So for example as you can see we don't want to include this bit right here.
And you want to go all the way around.
And then once you get to the very last one or the very first one should I say.
You want to hold CTRL
Or COMMAND.
And then Left Click to connect it all up.
And this will subtract it from the selection.
You will also sometimes run into problems like this
For example..
As you can see this bit right here on the edge.
Is a little bit too soft.
And to fix this all you have to do is go to the third tool down.
Get yourself the brush tool.
Set it to 30
For the pixels.
And set it to 0 for the hardness.
You then want to hold ALT or OPTION key
And then Left Click and remove it from here.
So as you can see we're now
Cleaning it up
And making it look a lot better.
You can press K to have a look at the preview.
And as you can see we need to get our self the brush tool.
Hold ALT.
Left Click.
And then just remove this bit right here.
There we go.
You can also Left Click to just add onto here.
So what this will do is it will make the edges more solid rather than..
Them being really soft.
There we go.
So as you can see everything is looking really good.
And once you're happy with your settings.
You can scroll all the way to the bottom.
Go to "Output To".
And set it to "New Layer With Layer Mask".
And then you want to go ahead and press OK.
And there you go. As you can see the background is now gone.
You can always re-edit this if you wanted to.
We've got our self the selection.
Or the mask right here.
So we can toggle it off.
We can preview it if we wanted to.
And basically modify it to anything else.
And that is pretty much it. That's how you remove a background in Photoshop 2022 using the Object Selection Tool.
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