Two INCREDIBLE Photoshop Techniques To Cut Out Images - Difficult Selections Made EASY!

[@thomasjoel1409]

Great technique for intricate cutouts.

[@Duitser1981]

Exactly what i’ve been looking for,having a hard time selecting leaves in front of a dark background,but now it should be easy thanks to this tutorial 👍🏻

[@3atmey]

This was awesome man, i ve been stuck at home and been watching all kind of photoshop tutorials and man, you really deserve more subscribers. Cheers.

[@dancurts9300]

Game changer for me. Thank you!

[@JohnTheRegis]

Superb - saved me hours of work

[@samelogio7441]

All I can say is WOW!!!! Thank you for these great tips. I look forward to getting really creative with my photo editing.

[@rajeshasthana5165]

Exceptionally good video on cut outs / selection. Thank you

[@1jadeitejade]

Awesome! Brendan makes the Blend If so easy to follow. thank you thank you.

[@muneneelijah1131]

Like the step-by-step and very precise way you explain your videos, learning a lot from you. By far your videos are the best

[@jcscobucci]

Very, very good! Fantastic! Congratulations!

[@tonys339]

Great tutorial. Your techniques are so much more effective than others on this same subject! Kudos...

[@shrs.3448]

Amazing and well-explained. As for me, I just need to keep practicing. Practice makes perfect. Thank you Mr Williams..

[@justjudygirl]

I just found you, love your tutorials! Clear, concise ( really love when you show the prompts on screen) thank you soooooo much!

[@andrewball_]

Hey man! I've been enjoying watching some of your videos. Keep it up bro!!

[@alemattosbr]

Man, it's easy now!!! Great tutorial, thanks for sharing bro!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

For real hey? No problem!

[@daniellekort]

You are such a wonderful guide, Brendan. I just upgraded my book cover design big time using this technique. Thank you SO MUCH!

[@gurgenvoskanyan2222]

Very nice, dude!

[@narendra672]

Thank you 🎄👍👍

[@bboygavin]

phenomenal!!

[@darlene6531]

You explain things so clearly. Thank you.

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

You're very welcome!

[@thevdoguru]

Perfect tutorial bro....saved ton of time

[@gfranks007]

Brendan :) I know you made this 2 years ago, but this was so incredibly helpful. Thanks for taking the time to create it!!!

[@timscanlanphotography]

Hi Brendan. This so helpful. Great tutorial! Many thanks for sharing.

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Glad to hear you liked it, Tim!

[@zediogoamareleja]

Outstanding Brendan..very useful many thanks

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

No problem!

[@HGGLP]

Good... Good Luck... 🍁🍂

[@chingor5044]

gorgeous tutorial,thanks🙏🏼

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

No problem!

[@Snowcatnz2]

Wow, I never knew it could be that easy. Thanks heaps!!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Right? When I first started using these I was like WHY doesn’t everyone do this stuff more often. Happy to hear you enjoyed it!

[@Yurok22]

that was soooo crazy good thank you amazing

[@Axis23]

Great Video!.. Thanks!

[@chasingluminance]

this is so helpful!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Glad you think so!

[@chezmacle872]

thank you for this

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

No problem!

[@clem02031964]

Fantastic- I knew about blend if, but, not calculations. I'm so pleased you shared this tip. I'm sure it will take a couple of goes to get it, but I can't wait to try it. Thanks again, Excellent.

[@romeocasanova3865]

That’s the best video I’ve seen so Far👍🥇 hey is it possible to use this for adding color also. Thanks & much success to you

[@soniaitorresjimenez7593]

Excelente tutorial, gracias por compartir

[@hazelingaround]

maaaan, you are my god. thank you!

[@jessiegibson9023]

Good video thanks

[@AussieAdventurer]

Amazing 🤩 is alli can say. This really really helps me a lot - a big thank you 🙏🏼

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

No problem!

[@AussieAdventurer]

@@BrendanWilliamsTutorials any chance i can send you a pm to ask about something i struggle with?

[@liznstuff]

Thank you for this video. There are a lot of great tips! I was tracking with you until the very last thing you did. I am completely lost after to open Blend If to start to feather the grass back in. You did not add the sky back in & I can't figure out how one would to that now that the copy of layer 1 will be covering it. I think I am missing something:/

[@sarahvson]

This seemed like a magic fix for a plastic mesh object I was clipping, however, no matter what workaround I tried I continually had residue from the brush technique and when I skipped that step the area became transparent upon saving.

[@tangcanada9381]

Awesome...!

[@kieucuong4818]

Great !

[@yevgeniyboubankov2127]

Hi Brandon! Thank you for tips! I have a question.. I have difficulty to select image when part of image have some unsharpened portion...if you can show technic and solution...Thank you!

[@benspalding416]

Excellent

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Glad you enjoyed, Ben!

[@Williy_Nilly]

Wish you would have been a little more descriptive, it's obvious that it works great but I'm attempting to apply this technique on a different photo where the foreground has similar colors to the background and using multiple blend if layers seem to solve that problem but it's very tricky.

[@caitlinconway1550]

you're a god, bless

[@alexandrugrecov8964]

Dope.

[@Williy_Nilly]

I had to fudge around but I got a satisfactory result.

[@The_Dominic]

This is a great tutorial, Brendan. I had a question, though - what if you wanted to remove the tree from the first photo entirely (leaving everything else)? Could you use this method? And then how do you basically delete the tree?

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

If you wanted to do that, it would be faster to just use a basic selection tool to go around the mountains like the quick selection tool. I only used the Blend-if example in order to keep the tree branches, but it's not always the fastest tool if you just want to select the horizon line. If you are unfamiliar with the quick selection tool, I have a tutorial on my website you can find here: bwillcreative.com/2020/01/19/how-to-cut-out-an-image-in-photoshop/

[@davidhowe1069]

Very cool video! I've always been kind of intimidated by blend if and channels, now I feel more comfortable and will definitely try it. Could you do a video showing how you would add the reflection of the sky in the water? Thanks Brendan.

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

I used to feel the same. They can seem confusing but once you practice them more they are extremely straight forward! For reflections you can also just use the blend if sliders and apply a flipped version of your photo over the water. Add a gaussian and/or motion blur from there and you're good to go. I'll definitely make a tutorial about it in the future.

[@efeacarefeacar]

Best tutorial ever on this subject. I have a question though, how to mask out white on white pictures? for example a woman dresses white yoga tights and a white tshirt, in front of a white background? most of the tutorials use already high contrasted pictures, but how to do with low contrast on colors?

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Since Photoshop uses contrast to make most auto selections, its hard to make fast selections with a lot of the same colours. Your best bet is the pen tool and cut out the subject manually, but you could also try the object selection tool new to CC 2020. You can see how it works here: bwillcreative.com/2020/01/19/how-to-cut-out-an-image-in-photoshop/

[@CmdrTigerKing]

where is the lut packlage?

[@MrJoeyarrigo]

Excellent techniques Brendan. Very enlightening and empowering. Hope you don't mind me pointing that as an educator you tend to move through your tutorials, and speak, a bit too fast, which makes it somewhat difficult to follow. Most of us are merely proficient with Photoshop, not an expert like yourself. Thanks.

[@lindafromczech]

how do you turn a layer black when you create it?

[@amalyasith5716]

woow

[@blockschmidt]

Been trying to cut out perfectly the tree of slowthais new album cover. Does not work for me at all which both methods, any recommendations? Still takes too much away from the tree and with overlay brush white n black there are still fringes and halos around the edges,

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

There needs to be some level of contrast between the foreground and background. From the album cover I've seen the sky is also pretty dark along with the tree. You could try increasing the luminance of the blues in the sky with the hue saturation to help create some more contrast to help these techniques work.

[@mezonbandari1074]

hi i didn't understand how did you fill that layer with black ?

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Set your foreground color to black, then select your new layer and press Alt or Option + Delete to fill the layer with your foreground color

[@mezonbandari1074]

@@BrendanWilliamsTutorials thank you

[@VBVariant]

If anyone does all that just to replace the sky then I suggest using Luminar 4, give it a try on the same image and only takes 5 seconds. But if you are masking the tree for other purposes then yes it is a superb masking technique.

[@Rudy2053]

Very nice tutorial....but I do the same with one click in Luminar 4

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Glad you liked it. Yes, Luminar does have some good features to it and could work as a great Photoshop alternative for many.

[@fidelrodriguez7964]

They said that is going to be easy. Yeah right! That's no easy at all.

[@leniehulse1621]

Great video but it would be followed easier if you went a little slower for newbies.

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Happy to hear you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback

[@srg3798]

too fast, i did not totally get the black layer added then deleted.

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

SRG create new layer, alt/opt + delete to fill layer with foreground colour(black), place layer where desired.