5 Ways to Remove a Background in Photoshop (100% Neat)

How to remove background in Photoshop quickly and neatly. Can be applied in adobe photoshop cs3, cs4, cs5 or above.

In this article, I will explain one of the design techniques in Adobe Photoshop. You must be familiar with this application, right? How not, Photoshop is an image editor software developed by Adobe Systems which is specifically used for photo or image editing and making effects.

In addition, Photoshop is also often used to create poster designs, websites, and others and is often used to edit photographic results.

For certain purposes, sometimes we need several pieces of objects or images that will later be combined with a certain background. For that, we certainly have to know how to remove the background from an image/object so that we can retrieve the object or image we want.

5 Ways to Remove Background in Photoshop

Here I will explain several ways to remove the background in Photoshop easily. For more details, let’s see the explanation below.

1. Removing the Background with a Layer Mask

This technique cuts the object by hiding the object outside or inside the selection area on the layer mask.

1. First, display the image that will be used as the background.

2. Display the image to be cropped in the background area by clicking File > Place, then select the file to cut and click the button Place.

3. The image will be seen in the image below.

4. Next, select the image to be cropped using Magic Wand Tool.

5. Then, click on the background image as shown below.

6. To crop the image or object, click Layer > Layer Mask > Hide Selection.

7. Now, now the background of the image has been cut off and it will look like in the image below.

2. Erase the Background with the Eraser Tool

This technique cuts an object by removing the selected object with the help of a brush.

1. Display the image/object to be cut on the prepared background as shown in the image below.

2. Then, select the image by using a selection tool like Magic Wand Tool to limit the object to be cut by clicking on the background of the image.

3. Click Eraser Tool.

4. Then, right click on the drawing area, select brush Hard Round then set Size according to the needs.

5. Gently sweep the background to remove the image background.

6. Well, the result will look like in the image below.

3. Erase the Background with the Magic Eraser Tool

This technique cuts the object based on the solid color constraint that is clicked.

1. Display the image/object to be cut on the prepared background as shown in the image below.

2. After that, click Magic Eraser Tool.

3. Click on the image area then the background of the image that is clicked will be cut off based on the color limit that is clicked.

4. Erase the Background with the Background Eraser Tool

This technique cuts the background while maintaining the shape of the image object. The technique is suitable for removing the background on tree branches and hair sides.

1. Show the image to be deleted background-his.

2. Then, click Background Eraser Tool.

3. Right-click on the image area, then set it like Size: 100px, Hardness: 100%, angle: 0, Roundness: 100%.

4. Click on the background to be removed and sweep around the object until the background disappears.

5. Well, the end result will look like in the image below.

5. Erase the Background with the Pen Tool

This technique cuts objects using Pen Tool very suitable for cutting objects with many curves and with a background that has a pattern and color gradation that is not solid.

1. Display the image/object to be cut on the prepared background as shown in the image below.

2. Then, click Pen Tool, then on the options bar select the option Paths.

3. Next, make a line path following each curve of the object to be cut and make sure the path that forms is right on the edge of the object. Try the line path does not enter the background area as in the image below.

4. Finally, right click on the line path that is formed then select Create Vector Mask.

5. Then the background image will be cut off as in the image below.

After reading this article, I hope you have understood how to remove the background from an image using Photoshop. You can choose one of the several techniques described above.

Alright, that’s all the discussion about how to easily remove photo backgrounds in Photoshop. Hopefully the article above is useful and good luck. Thank you!

Reference: Photoshop User Guide

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