Select a soft rounded brush and click over the layer mask thumbnail in the layers panel. Right-click on the Background Layer and select Duplicate Layer. From the top menu, select File and then click on Open and choose the file you want to work on.
Step 10īe sure to have a black color set as your Foreground Color. Method 2: How to Remove Background Using the Magic Wand Tool Step 1 : Open. To do that, click on the “Add Layer Mask” icon in the Layers Panel. Click the color in the image that you want to select. Leave Contiguous checked if you want to select only adjacent areas of similar color. In the Options bar, uncheck Contiguous if you want to select nonadjacent areas of similar color. Select the Magic Wand tool in the Tools panel. Once you finish erasing the background from hair, you can keep using the “Background Eraser Tool” to remove the remaining background content or you can simply add a layer mask and mask the rest of the image as you normally do. Make an automatic selection with the Magic Wand tool. With this simple process, keep erasing the background from hair on your subject. Now that the Background Eraser Tool is set, simply click on a background area near the hair and start erasing as you normally do with the eraser tool. In previous Photoshop versions, selection tools like Magic Wand and Lasso would get confused by the similar colors, and patterns of this type of background. Step 6įinally, set the Tolerance to about 45%. Under “Limits” pick the "Discontiguous" one from the dropdown menu. In this case it is set to 70 with the Hardness set to 70% and the Spacing set to 1%. In the top toolbar, set a brush size that works best for you according to the image you are editing. Step 2Ĭlick and hold over the “Eraser” tool in the toolbar and select the “Background Eraser Tool”.
Luckily, Photoshop has a tool custom built just for that and today you'll learn to use it!īefore we begin, if you want to follow this tutorial exactly as described go ahead and download the following woman image from Pexels. One of the most difficult version of this is when you need to retouch hair to separate it from the background. Touching up hair in a picture can be one of the most annoying Photoshop tasks - all the little details involved to get a perfect end result are eye-straining. Additional background elements can be removed using any of the Photoshop selection tools to select the unwanted areas and pressing Delete.