It should paint a RED color overlayed at about 80% opacity by default. Make sure that black is your foreground color when you paint. Now with both your brush tool and mask tool buttons selected, paint out the selection you want. (smaller radius, hardness around 50% or higher) You want a nice firm yet soft edge. Then click on your brush tool and use similar brush size and hardness as you did with the eraser. Here, i'll show you!įirst, make sure your foreground and background colors are at default (black foreground, white background). I actually find more use for it in editing portions of a selection rather than making selections. I was really scared of masking before I learned what it was.
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So it's not too bad and it's fairly quick. Fortunately for me, I have a bamboo tablet. This is pretty hard and tedious to do with a mouse.
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The more the hardness is up, the more sharp the edge will be. The less hardness, the more of a feathering effect you will get.
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I usually use a pretty small brush with the hardness set to around mid-point. To make things easier on myself, I usually take the polygonal lasso tool and cut out as much of the picture as I can.Īfter that, I zoom in and select my eraser tool. You have to have a really steady hand and a lot of patience. Now, this method is full-proof for some people, but it's hard to get clean lines with this. And there's nothing wrong with this method at all other than the fact that you are deleting information and that can sometimes be problematic if you accidentally erase something you decide you want back later on. I used to just do this all the time because I didn't know a better way. OR if you want to keep your background for future use, just make the selection a new layer ( Layer } New } Layer via copy OR Command+J). I think with this method you will have to do some cleaning up afterwards since it's hard to be exact.When you are done, double click to make the selection and you'll get the marching ants.įrom this point, you can either inverse the selection ( Select } Inverse OR Shift+Command+I) and then delete the background. Anchor points will automatically be placed down as you drag.Īnd if you want to make sure an anchor stays put, just click and then keep dragging and it will stay in the place you clicked. Now, simply click and release once and drag the mouse along the outer edge of the object. Not really certain on the other settings, but mine are highlighted below. First, I would set the feather either 0 or 1. Magnetic Lasso: You could actually get a decent cut with this one. But keep in mind that this tool works great on more geometric, straight edge objects. Polygonal Lasso: This isn't going to work the best on this particular picture, since it's a person and the curves are all organic.
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But the magnetic lasso tool is pretty cool and I always use the polygonal lasso on geometric shapes.įree-Hand Lasso: I won't even go into the free hand lasso, since it's pretty self-explanatory and not the best method if you want a clean cutout. I don't usually use these tools if I can help it, since it's harder to get the exact cuts I want. * Note: I won't even be going over the Magic Wand Tool since I think it's a horrible way to make selections. Now once the layer is unlocked/editable, you can begin the cutting out process. Or you can just create a duplicate later ( Layer } New } Layer via copy OR Command+J ) and hide the background layer. You can unlock it by double clicking it and pressing OK on the dialogue box. Now, once you've done whatever editing you want to do, make sure you turn your background layer into an editable layer. If the image is really dark and you can't really see the outer edges of the figure you're cutting out, I suggest creating a curves layer (that you will later delete) to overly brighten the image so you can see what you are doing. PREP: I usually go ahead and edit/color the image I want to cut out, since i'll probably be using one of the background colors as the new background after I cut it out.
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#How to cut things out in photoshop cc how to#
I see people sometimes asking how to cut things out in PhotoShop and I know to some it seems like it would be obvious (LOL eraser tool duh) but I thought i'd make a monster-sized tutorial showing some different (and more effective, imo) ways to cut things out.