Sometimes when using the quickest method we got some hard edges visible around the subject which we don’t want. You can learn more about masking with layer mask tutorial. All you need to do is to select the layer mask, paint over the area with the white brush which you would like to back visible again. If you think that you made some mistake or by mistake you got those parts deleted that you don’t want then don’t worry layer mask will take care of that. If you get the model extracted instead of background you can press CTRL/CMD + I to inverse the layer mask results. Here are the results with clean and neat transparent background. While the selection is active, click the second button at the bottom of layer panel to add a Layer Mask So we’ll go with layer mask, let’s remove the background. With layer mask you can easily go back whenever you want to make some parts visible again or maybe you made a mistake during selection. The best way to remove the background is using a layer mask. Now the selection is active you can delete the background to make it transparent. Step 4 – Delete & Make the Background Transparent Here you can see the results after correcting selection: Just hold the ALT Key or select Subtract from Selection on the options bar.Ĭlick on the selection where you want to minus the selection. You can fix this issue and for that, you need to minus the selection. Here you can see we’ve man’s jacket parts selected as well:
The reason is simple because the gray color is near to White color. Since we all know that Quick Selection Tool (W) works on the color sampling so sometimes if your subject has white or near to white color (like you can see the man has the gray color jacket) then it can select that part as well. Here you can see the marching ants showing that we’ve selected the background. Then simply drag it on the background to select it and it will select the background. You can also use other tools as well so activate any of the selection tool and select the white background.Īctivate the Quick Selection Tool (W) and make sure Add to Selection option is selected on the option bar.
The quickest way to that is to use the Quick Selection Tool (W). Now it’s time for selecting the background. Step 3 – Make Selection Using The Quick Selection Tool (W) You can delete the background layer or you can you can disable the visibility by clicking on the Eye-Icon. Now you’ll have two layer background copy and background (see the below image). Press CTRL + J to duplicate the background layer or right-click on the background layer choose ‘duplicate layer.’ We are duplicating the background layer because in Photoshop background layer has no transparency and also, duplicating the layer will not harm your original image. You can use any image for this tutorial like either yours or may be any others but I’m using this one which has a pure white background. You can open a photo by selecting File > Open then choose the image which you would like to open. Make a Subject/Object Background Transparent Step 1 – Open A White Background Image
The white background also makes the selection process so easy and you can make even complex selections like selecting hair, extracting tree leaves and much more.