REMOVE BACKGROUND with PERFECT edges in PHOTOSHOP. Advanced technique for the best results.

This Photoshop tutorial shows a really great way to remove the background from a photo. Learn how to extract a person from a photo and get absolutely perfect edges that you can control. Colin Smith shows a more advanced way to cut out a photo by using Channels and dodge and burn. Don't worry, it's easy to follow along. How to get smooth edges on limbs.
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[@photoshopcafe]

It's impossible to make a cutout tutorial without getting the unavoidable "But this is easy, it's on a white background" comments. I have other tutorials that deal with complex backgrounds and this isn't one of them - if you are looking for that, check out one of my many other tutorials. A compositor usually shoots on a white background, in fact why would they shoot on a complex background? A challenge many people get is getting a good edge on smooth areas such as limbs. They often come out ragged or razor sharp and don't look natural. Thats what this tutorial is for, to help refine those edges to get a perfectly clean edge. The truth is, any cutout usually involves many different techniques. If you really want to go in depth check out my Selections Secrets course: photoshopcafe.com/shop/photoshop-cc-selection-secrets/

[@Rogier1969]

Thank you! I intend to watch your tutorials regularly this year!

[@dazzywhite2534]

Happy New Decade - thanks so much Colin - am going to make a real effort this year to watch your tutorials over and over!!

[@daniloledezma]

And just when you think is all written about selections... Colin just made it again. Thanks for your always amazing techniques.

[@speterlewis]

Great, Colin. Yet another marvelous technique to add to the tool bag!

[@ccuny1]

Thanks a lot Colin. Brilliant tut. Happy New Decade.

[@jenniferatterton1587]

This gives us some great tips, thank you, Colin.

[@myerrandolph1033]

Great tutorial, Colin. Happy New Year!

[@veselinvasilev9362]

Thank You! Happy New Year!

[@kenmorris2858]

Love your channel. Awesome technique...Cheers and Happy New Year from Nova Scotia.....

[@1SnarfyDude]

I love your videos. I've been using photoshop for the better part of 15 years after another software program, that I made he living with, was bought out by Corel and then shelved. I'm really not fond of them. Anyway, your videos are great and I still learn things after all these years. And if nothing else each video is a good reminder of things that I may have overlooked. Please keep up the good work.

[@rgarlinyc]

Great technique, thanks Colin - I'll put this to use, for sure! (I'd tell all my friends - if I had any, that is)

[@grosema]

WoW that was Amazing thanks for the tip ... Now I have to make a action with inserts on what to do Before I forget it.

[@VickiT158]

Happy New Year, Colin! Perfect solution to masking and an excellent tutorial to start 2020 with. Many thanks.

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks

[@Karna.Tjahyana_ID]

Happy New Year, Colin !

[@webknack922]

Great tutorial! Thank you

[@RosaPerry]

Happy New Year Colin!

[@stonesgaminglair4540]

I needed this. Thanks a lot

[@mohsinfareed1797]

Great man. Thanks.

[@GARYGUS]

Great technique

[@sandrampillay2652]

Thank you for this tutorial.

[@johnhjic2]

Nice method Colon. I hope you had a great new year? and the MacPro is as good as it looked.

[@akosaeyw]

thanks It's really great...!

[@9830644499]

nice tutorial ...learn something new ..plz share a video regarding brush setting when we use wacom tablet

[@rajeshasthana5165]

thanks I will use this technique next time .

[@kkrad1]

Happy new year to you & your family ..Wish u a great decade health & prosperity

[@GraphicstuteBlogspotIn]

Happy New Year sir........awesome sir.........thank you so much for sharing this video.

[@sakirfanoon3757]

Useful tips.

[@plentius]

Excellent! Thanks.

[@jovelinoalmeida4704]

great tool happy 2020 to you

[@darrelwillman3158]

Thanks, I learned something :)

[@19Photographer76]

Brings me back in time, great job. The tough one is decontaminating colors from an uncontrolled environment, especially from soft edges.

[@photoshopcafe]

Create a clipped layer in color blend mode and paint away the color spill

[@19Photographer76]

@@photoshopcafe Thanks! My brain is getting too cluttered (74) Thanks so much, this was really the refresher I needed and beyond to manage the color spill!

[@MuzikkZone]

Those edges are so smooth man.

[@nazirb43]

Hi Happy 2020, I love what you doing that technique I love it, but if you work with a background that busy.

[@pesthlm]

Hey Colin! Thanks for this! I have worked a lot with Threshold in my graphic work and have been able to make masks out of it. I would like to give the development department the proposal of being able to link considering Threshold as a dynamic mask. What do you think about this?

[@dunnymonster]

Brilliant 👍

[@briantempest4866]

Hi Colin great video as per will it work on a busy background. I take a lot lot of rugby shots in the UK and i like to remove the players from a very busy background. Happy new year.

[@photoshopcafe]

Depends on the contrast on the BG and the subject, there are many ways to cut out an image, and I have lots of tutorials on other ways.

[@seefroggysee]

I like it!

[@bosmanerwin]

Personally I use a brush in overlay mode with a flow of ten pct in stead of the dodge and burn. Before doing all that you can use the apply image at multiply mode to save some work.

[@janus1450]

Happy new Year From France Colin

[@photoshopcafe]

Happy New Year

[@HunterYou2002]

love the intro

[@TheNon-DigArtist]

Yay! You have the same guitar as me! I know that has nothing to do with Photoshop but just had to comment! Fist bump :-)

[@photoshopcafe]

Good choice of guitar! ;)

[@jasonng3239]

Hey notification bell worked!

[@photoshopcafe]

yay!

[@pranjalbarola]

You are awesome! How can you use PS so easily? 🤯

[@edwardkennedy2031]

2 problems, firstly you used a simple white background, which easy to select from, 2nd, your image is blurry, use something in focus for videos.

[@Emuspaul]

Yes; one of my goals for the year is to climb the learning curve of Photoshop. It seems so complicated and so much work. But maybe someday it will all gel and become second nature. I'm still not proficient with the concept of layer masks.

[@photoshopcafe]

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[@these510]

Have patience and practice it will take some work and lots of repetition. there are two books solely devoted to layers by one of Adobe's very own Matt Kloskowsky. they were for CS 5 and 6 but still would be of terrific help.

[@photoshopcafe]

@@these510 Matt doesn't work for Adobe. But I agree, this was a good book back in the day.

[@ksmgmedia]

Great upload, I try not to use photoshop, but I like to master anything even if I'm not going to use it. The only THING that never seems to work is refine edge tool. It takes away in stead of adds. The edges just looks muddy and disappointing! I've given up.

[@mattrowe6394]

Hey Colin! I have just used this tutorial and it was very helpful / looks great on my first image, but on the 2nd image I have a grey background (so selected the red channel) but when I go to dodge or burn on the skin it only selects the background and not the person (as its darker) can you help, please?

[@photoshopcafe]

Try crushing it a little with levels and also, try using the midtones instead of Shad/Highlights in the Dodge and burn tool if its too dark or light

[@dantheman2907]

I've been watching for a while now and hadn't hit subscribe, so I subscribed and then literally 5 seconds later you say "maybe you've been watching for a while and haven't subscribed yet..." and I feel like this was directed at me lol!

[@photoshopcafe]

I knew it! lol thanks for the sub.

[@fernandovazquezdjmanitas6216]

Happy New Year

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks, you too

[@listentocky]

Nice tutorial, Colin. Question: after filling the selection with black, why not then expand the selection by a multiple of 2 or 3 times the number of pixels you contracted by, invert the selection, and fill with white? This would leave you with just the subject in pure black and the edges that would need dodging and burning.

[@photoshopcafe]

Yup, that works as well, so does applying a curves adjustment and clipping the whites, I actually have an action that contacts by 10 and expends by 10 for these kinds of cutouts that I use in real work, but my goal for a tutorial is teach people the technique and it shows it better this way.

[@birolakyildiz4331]

Greetings from Turkey...

[@EDDIEGARAGE]

what's wrong with CMD + J

[@webbcreative1]

take a drink whenever he says "what Im going to do...."

[@iftekharshifat9577]

Loved the video! Can you make a video on autoRetouch? It is an AI powered photo editing platform. On this platform, the work of removing background is so easy and the output is very professional. It is offering a one month free trial as well!

[@fabzvideochannel2761]

i dont have that select subject button

[@photoshopcafe]

Are you on an older version, It was added in PS 2019

[@Karna.Tjahyana_ID]

@@photoshopcafe CC 2018 has select subject feature too.

[@fabzvideochannel2761]

@@photoshopcafe its CS6 that i use

[@fabzvideochannel2761]

i placed cc2019 and indeed its there

[@gooseneckful]

Well that one is pretty easy on a white background. you don't even need to go on channel to do that. Better luck next time :-)

[@betabloxx]

Who is she?! Germany?

[@lowmoon9025]

That's pretty far from perfect, and that's not a crit of you, it's that these tools designed to automate masking just aren't that good. It would be far quicker and cleaner to draw a path with the pen tool, then pay some attention to her hair. For 95% of this job a vector mask is going to look better and be more intuitive to edit.

[@photoshopcafe]

Thats another way to do it, but many people struggle to use Paths, I have made a few tuts on Paths too. Also paths don't work on hairy arms too well.

[@VickiT158]

I use vector paths, too, depending on the subjects. However, if you’re not careful and the subject has anything but clean edges, the cut out looks obvious. This method overcomes that issue. It all comes down to what you’re masking. :)

[@MrPowderMoon]

Great tutorial, Colin. Happy New Year!