4 Ways To Remove Backgrounds In Photoshop For Beginners

In this Photoshop tutorial you'll learn a few easy methods to cut out images perfectly suited for beginners to remove backgrounds even with little to no experience in the program.
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These background removal techniques are fast and painless to do so you can go ahead and create a transparent background with ease. Once you've made your transparent background, just export to PNG to save your transparency for future projects! Hope you enjoy :)
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Timestamps
0:00 Overview
0:33 The Background Removal Button
2:17 The Magic Wand Tool
6:42 The Object Selection Tool
9:04 Refining Hair Basics
10:50 Using Select Color Range & Select Subject
14:03 More Options To Remove Backgrounds

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  • @BrendanWilliamsTutorials
    @BrendanWilliamsTutorials8 ай бұрын

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  • @ThanhBui-tp5ef
    @ThanhBui-tp5ef Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Brendan for useful tutorial. I have question why the paint bucket has only foreground drop down menu, no background that we need to paint color.

  • @londiwekhuzwayo8031
    @londiwekhuzwayo80315 ай бұрын

    Finally! This was very helpful. Thank you.

  • @fox963
    @fox963 Жыл бұрын

    Hello, Brendan. I've watched a few of your videos to help me with my current project and they have been very helpful! I am currently trying to make a video where I am moving two pictures towards each other but there is a problem. I used your tips to remove backgrounds, improve resolution and crop areas, leaving a headshot in each picture. After saving the pics as .png files, I still have the rectangular black area around the headshots that can be seen as the pictures move towards one another. The black area of one picture will partially cover the other headshot as they approach each other. I'm trying to have only a "head silhouette" in each picture with a totally transparent background. (I hope that I am making myself clear). Should I be saving these pictures in Photoshop in a different format or is there a way to use masks or some other method to accomplish this task?

  • @jeffreyhipolito83
    @jeffreyhipolito83 Жыл бұрын

    Hopefully I can learn more about photo editing world from your videos. Thanks man

  • @ruthyankson2239
    @ruthyankson2239 Жыл бұрын

    Great tutorial, Brendan!

  • @graphicallydeb9897
    @graphicallydeb98976 ай бұрын

    Thank you- things I had no idea about. Great learning.

  • @binksm689
    @binksm689 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much! Short and to the point. You saved me so much time!

  • @leanne7832
    @leanne7832 Жыл бұрын

    Great video! I'm a beginner and have a hard time following a lot of videos This was the the best video I've watched. I am going to have to check out more of your videos.

  • @ritaophelia
    @ritaophelia Жыл бұрын

    You are an excellent teacher! Please make a video on selecting the hair! I have been trying to select this individual with greyish hair and place a textured over him without success! Thanks so much

  • @WomensTop20
    @WomensTop207 ай бұрын

    Excellent, thank you!

  • @OfficialSeanCoilnChristie
    @OfficialSeanCoilnChristie5 ай бұрын

    thanks. very helpful looking forward to disgusting more. All the best!!!

  • @jeannettebouwmeester9010
    @jeannettebouwmeester9010 Жыл бұрын

    Dankjewel weer voor deze video, weer wat geleerd

  • @SimplybeingR
    @SimplybeingR Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this video...trying to follow along with the easy method, but I have no magic wand...how do I find it or get it to show?

  • @toguentertainment
    @toguentertainment2 ай бұрын

    thanks brendan you are excellent. thanks again for sharing

  • @rumaaktersathi4941
    @rumaaktersathi4941 Жыл бұрын

    loving video

  • @TaragoPreviaEstima
    @TaragoPreviaEstima Жыл бұрын

    I don't get it. None of these options worked for me. I have W11 PS19. Is there something else I need to do to have the options. Download an Add-on maybe?

  • @BigAlsBBQ
    @BigAlsBBQ11 ай бұрын

    how to change the selection if it doesnt pick up all the background you want removed or too much background?

  • @Hurley2pt0
    @Hurley2pt0 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome!

  • @eni9mv
    @eni9mv Жыл бұрын

    thats awesome thank u

  • @beewoonang5605
    @beewoonang5605 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Brendan!

  • @leniehulse1621
    @leniehulse1621 Жыл бұрын

    HiBrendan, I love your videos as they are so easy to follow. I am working on my family photo (11 persons) and am trying to individually to edit each person but having a hard time with object selection as PS keeps including/excluding parts of another person. I have tried the adding and subtracting feature and still not able to do it nicely. Do you have a video with something like this? Thanks.

  • @BrendanWilliamsTutorials

    @BrendanWilliamsTutorials

    Жыл бұрын

    Hmm, I would suggest the pen tool or the quick selection tool (both shared in an older video titled “4 best ways to remove backgrounds in photoshop”) but you could also use the object selection tool, add the rough selection to a layer mask, then refine it by painting white or black on the mask with the brush tool until only your desired subject is selected. That’s probably the least time consuming option that I’d go for.

  • @salomonpineda842
    @salomonpineda842 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks great tutorial. Please make a video of hair selection with busy background and complicated hair.

  • @jamesnjuguna1441
    @jamesnjuguna1441 Жыл бұрын

    that was awesome

  • @DJCENTIF1
    @DJCENTIF1 Жыл бұрын

    Yes make a video on complicated hair removal

  • @majkenkloster994
    @majkenkloster994 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for your tutorial. I have a problem - around 9.14 in. your video, where you say "select the mask double click on the layer mask that you just created and it vill open up........ Mine doesn´t - I cant open the layer mask by double clicking??? What am I doing wrong - please? I use Mac. TIA

  • @Bianchi77
    @Bianchi7710 ай бұрын

    Nice video, well done, keep it up, thanks for sharing it :)

  • @lauras.2706
    @lauras.2706 Жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU you are rescuing me from PS video tutorial hell!

  • @minstarss4570
    @minstarss4570 Жыл бұрын

    Thank teacher

  • @AutoHeadz
    @AutoHeadz Жыл бұрын

    I don’t have this in my options side bar.

  • @angelluza8554
    @angelluza85543 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much it's really helpful and I noticed you are handsome too 😊

  • @goldenfalcon5130
    @goldenfalcon5130 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing video I really like it

  • @BrendanWilliamsTutorials

    @BrendanWilliamsTutorials

    Жыл бұрын

    Happy to hear!

  • @user-lm5bb3of3m
    @user-lm5bb3of3m10 ай бұрын

    hellow Mr Brendan can u provide another video on how u can make hair not been affected by preview back group after remove it

  • @FloridianGail
    @FloridianGail4 ай бұрын

    After you take the background out in the first example, then how to you copy and paste the image onto another file. I copied it and the mask copied and then I copied the pic and the background was still there?

  • @tonypari5780
    @tonypari5780 Жыл бұрын

    1:05 im updated but i still dont get the "remove background" button. Anyone know why or how i can get it?

  • @audunjemtland8287
    @audunjemtland8287 Жыл бұрын

    Any idea how to remove the color bleed on the edges that seeped in from the background? Not casted light onto the edge, but the background color 'stuck' on the cutout edges. Thanks for the really nice tutorial. AJ Norway

  • @gatoancha

    @gatoancha

    Жыл бұрын

    You should consult google for this question: www.google.co.uk/search?q=photoshop+remove+backlground+with+edges&ei=qw-FZJmEMNKH8gLY35W4Aw&ved=0ahUKEwjZhfzS9bn_AhXSg1wKHdhvBTcQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=photoshop+remove+backlground+with+edges&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yCAgAEIoFEIYDMggIABCKBRCGAzIICAAQigUQhgMyCAgAEIoFEIYDOgoIABBHENYEELADOgoIABCKBRCwAxBDOgcIABCKBRBDOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToKCAAQigUQsQMQQzoICAAQgAQQsQM6BQgAEIAEOgoIABANEIAEELEDOgcIABANEIAEOgcIIRCgARAKOgQIIRAVOgYIABAeEA1KBAhBGABQ_QNY9CVgxiZoA3ABeACAAaQBiAG6HZIBBDIuMjmYAQCgAQHAAQHIAQo&sclient=gws-wiz-serp Expand your mask by two pixels and it will remove those edges...

  • @fernandak14
    @fernandak14 Жыл бұрын

    I CANT BELIEVE KKKKKKKKKKKK I was manually removing the background this whole time... and photoshop does it automatically!! Seriously, I've been laughing at this for hours. Thanks, dude!! I still can't believe I was doing this manually. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @nailahsofi3613
    @nailahsofi3613 Жыл бұрын

    Hey nice

  • @carryonmalarking
    @carryonmalarking4 ай бұрын

    Heya I don't get the remove background option on my properties - perhaps have I a different version of Photoshop?

  • @BrendanWilliamsTutorials

    @BrendanWilliamsTutorials

    4 ай бұрын

    If you are using PS CC it will appear as long as your image layer is highlighted in the layers panel

  • @ziaulmonsur
    @ziaulmonsur Жыл бұрын

    Video frame at 9:34 while applying the quick selection tool in a particular area then other part of the image is automatically erased......why?

  • @edwinocampo2962
    @edwinocampo2962 Жыл бұрын

    what version adobephotoshop

  • @blessedtested2664
    @blessedtested26648 ай бұрын

    please i would love to know how to make my hairs look more realistic when am taking out background

  • @francissmith2202
    @francissmith22028 ай бұрын

    What if you don’t have remove background at the quick access at the properties panel How then do you get it there ?

  • @rimabalhouane3862
    @rimabalhouane3862 Жыл бұрын

    Hi I don’t seem to have the remove background option in the quick actions section can someone advise please??

  • @t4rfl

    @t4rfl

    Жыл бұрын

    Have to unlock the layer to see it

  • @Moving.to.Dallas
    @Moving.to.Dallas Жыл бұрын

    Brendan this is frustrating. I followed your instructions to the letter. But my background stays. Yes I get the background layer, but I never get the checkerboard.

  • @BrendanWilliamsTutorials

    @BrendanWilliamsTutorials

    Жыл бұрын

    Be sure to have any layers beneath turned off so there is nothing visible beneath the layer you cut out with a mask.

  • @lupusHegemonia
    @lupusHegemonia Жыл бұрын

    Nice, all of these. But... there is a much much easier way to do it. You making a layer copy, you turning it to black 'n white, then you picking the eraser tool and you selecting the Background Erase Tool (and you hitting the button to reset to default your colors to black 'n white). If you have the background of your image in black, you reverting the colors (to have white top and black back) and tool you simply ERASING ALL BLACKS - so, all the background! If you have "grey areas" here and there, you simply picking a Layer option and you overlaying a pure white color (to the white 'n grey areas) and... that's it. (I'm using Photoshop 2016, so I don't have all these new "goodies" like auto-one-click removing)

  • @ucesaftf9383
    @ucesaftf9383 Жыл бұрын

    it doesnt come up with quick actions :(

  • @chisolm20
    @chisolm2011 ай бұрын

    The quick options only says 'Convert to frame" and "convert to shape". why is "remove background" an option?

  • @christopherjameskull
    @christopherjameskull Жыл бұрын

    wow, I never knew that remove background button was there

  • @Gayeuw
    @Gayeuw Жыл бұрын

    thank u sir i luv u HAHAHAHAHA

  • @dhorieagrimano9270
    @dhorieagrimano9270 Жыл бұрын

    Bat you couldn't do this in adobe Photoshop 2021 because in properties there is no so called remove background

  • @Officiallywind

    @Officiallywind

    Жыл бұрын

    It is there, you'd have to rasterize the layer first

  • @CFra-qb9ls
    @CFra-qb9ls Жыл бұрын

    Informative but please slow down.

  • @UpInTheSky2025

    @UpInTheSky2025

    11 ай бұрын

    Just make your video slower on your settings.

  • @ryanmurphy872
    @ryanmurphy872 Жыл бұрын

    New version is different

  • @e-alikeventures
    @e-alikeventures Жыл бұрын

    Not working

  • @Kubolong
    @Kubolong Жыл бұрын

    object selection tool testing on a woman

  • @TheFujiwuji
    @TheFujiwuji Жыл бұрын

    This is so confusing. When I try to use the layer mask it deletes the person, and keeps the background. The opposite of what I'm trying to do.

  • @BrendanWilliamsTutorials

    @BrendanWilliamsTutorials

    Жыл бұрын

    It's because the selection is selecting the subject, therefore when you add a mask the contents of the selection is removed. That's why you invert the layer mask after to reveal the proper cut out. Press Command/control + I with the mask selected to invert.

  • @doylee4708
    @doylee4708 Жыл бұрын

    Talks to fast for me

  • @raisalengko9056
    @raisalengko90567 ай бұрын

    this is white and BLaaq

  • @ryanmurphy872
    @ryanmurphy872 Жыл бұрын

    Way too fast to follow

  • @vickibranham3026
    @vickibranham3026 Жыл бұрын

    How can anybody follow you? You’re talking so fast I don’t understand. Nothing you’re saying.

  • @UpInTheSky2025

    @UpInTheSky2025

    11 ай бұрын

    It's not fast at all. Go to your settings then you can choose how fast or slow to play your video.

  • @AD-ew6cy
    @AD-ew6cy Жыл бұрын

    thank you

  • @myanmarmedia3396
    @myanmarmedia3396 Жыл бұрын

    none of method is working properly....waste time

  • @user-ie3wk5gz9w
    @user-ie3wk5gz9w7 ай бұрын

    Why do you talk quickly ????....

  • @maestrochristov
    @maestrochristov Жыл бұрын

    useless

  • @keponism
    @keponism Жыл бұрын

    Yes make a video on complicated hair removal

  • @BrendanWilliamsTutorials

    @BrendanWilliamsTutorials

    Жыл бұрын

    Sounds good!