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- 1. Photoshop Tutorials: Getting Started and Removing Background using Magic Wand Find Adobe Photoshop programme on the desktop or in All programmes. Click on Edit and Enhance. Go to File in the top left hand part of the screen to start your project. Go down to select New and then across to select Blank File.
- 2. In the box that pops up, Name: call the project something useful. Preset: Go down the list using the arrow and select A4. Colour Mode: Has to be RGB Colour Background Contents: Select Transparent. When you do this your preset will automatically change to custom which is fine, don’t change it back! Hit ok. Go find your images. Hit File, Open and select the location of your pictures.
- 3. Select what part of the picture you want using ‘rectangular marquee tool’ if you want all of it, select all of it. Then go to edit and hit copy. (You can’t right click the image to select copy on photoshop).
- 4. Select your empty page you created at the beginning and hit edit, paste. *Helpful tip: you can expand the page by dragging the bottom corner out.* You can use the ‘move tool’ to make the image bigger and move it around the page, when you resize make sure when you are done you hit the to seal the decision. Your picture may pixelate if its not good enough quality, but check first by hitting the tick it may clear.
- 5. *Helpful tip: If you hold down the shift key on your keyboard you can keep the picture in proportion so it doesn’t end up being skewed. Works well especially with faces. Once you have completed these steps with all your images we can remove the background from your image. You can do this using two tools. 1. 2. ‘Magic Ward Tool’ for block ‘Selection Brush Tool’ for more colour backgrounds. complicated backgrounds
- 6. Magic ward - click on the magic wand tool then click on the block colour within your picture and you should find that it highlighted the selected area with a zigzag line. When you hit delete you will find the zigzag area gone, revealing the background. Double click the mouse and the zigzag line should disappear. You can do the same to all other bits of block col- our within the pic- ture.
- 7. However if the background to the picture is the same colour as the fore- ground or is patterned you may find ‘magic wand’ does not work. This is when we use ‘selection brush tool’ It is like magic wand but it lets you choose where to put the zigzag line and you can change the size of your brush.
- 8. Do the bigger bits with a big brush and reduce the size of your brush as you move in to do the outline. Don’t be afraid to zoom in! *Helpful Tip: If you go over the line you want to keep you can use the Alt key on your keyboard. Hold it down and it takes away the zigzag line.
- 9. Once you’ve got the line all the way round the bit you want to delete hit delete. Then go back to magic wand and click twice to get rid of the zigzag line. Your done, admire your work!