The EASY Background Remover Hidden in Photoshop!

yes there's an actual tool in Photoshop that allows us to erase the background so we are not talking about any selections or mosques you'll be blown away to see how powerful customizable advanced and easy-to-use this - who can be sometimes it's so accurate it's just amazing but why don't we use it why don't we talk about it so much there is one major drawback this tool actually has and today we can see whether we can solve that drawback and make this - one of the best tools to remove backgrounds in Photoshop so without any further ado let's get started so here we are in the magical world of Photoshop - go ahead and download any of the photos shown in the tutorial check the links in the description so first of all where is the tool actually have a look right here but this is the eraser right so if you click and hold have a look at the tools under the group the second one is the one that we are looking for it literally says the background here is there to select that and then make a copy of the background layer just for backup press ctrl or command J now let's go ahead and create a solid color adjustment layer click on the adjustment layer icon and then choose solid color and we're gonna choose a color like black and then hit OK now bring down the solid color adjustment layer under layer one why because in layer one you're gonna erase the background so let's go ahead and select layer 1 and right now there is some settings set up you're going to talk about settings later we'll learn all about that but I just want to show you how this tool actually works so simply just start from the background let's make the brush a little smaller and softer and start painting and see how easily the background is being removed why are we seeing black because in the background we have black just below layer 1 and we are erasing the background in layer 1 simply just paint head you're good to go have a look so complex hair and we are easily removing it so how does it actually work you tell Photoshop what color the background is you paint on the background Photoshop analyzes for the background is removes it now there's one major drawback this two has we just did it which is demonstrated it pause it think about it for a moment what is the one major drawback have a look at it closely if we remove the background then for example I want something back over here what if I accidentally painted right in what if I want this area back there is no masks if we were doing selected masks or doing any other method involving masks you could have just painted white in that area and got that area back that is the biggest drawback of this tool that it works destructively we cannot work non destructively with this or what if he can hold that thought for a moment we'll talk about how to make this tool non-destructive later but right now let's learn about all these settings at the top so the first one first three right here takes care of the sampling how are we sampling the colors okay so the first one right here is continuous sampling this one so wherever you paint it continuously samples from the area under the crosshair have a look at it so if I paint right here it will continue the sample from the middle of the brush see the crosshair in the middle right you just paint and it continuously samples now the drawback is what if you put it over the hair it also samples the hair and erases it it is good when you have hard edges and the background color is constantly changing all right otherwise it's useless the second one right here let's go back is one time sampling it samples just once what does that mean if you click on that and then you start the sample from here it takes a sample from area under the crosshair but it just doesn't continuously sample so if I start painting from here it samples the green color beneath the crosshair and then just keeps it as long as I hold down the brush as long as I don't release the brush so if I keep on painting and even if I get inside this it just won't remove it because it has sampled that color already however if you lift the brush and if you put it right there it's gonna erase that area are you understanding how this is working it samples the first time so if I start painting from here it samples the green color and even if I try to get in it just won't paint over there have a look at this interesting thing our eyes are green right so if I start painting from here it didn't remove anything but have a look it removed the eye area because that area was green so it's ambles just once now the third one is background sampling have a look at it sampling background swatch so whatever color is in the background swatch that color will be erased but that's not very useful the first two other ones that you're gonna use all the time mostly the second one is my favorite now let's talk about limits have a look it's right up there so what is limits the limit settings allow you to limit from where you can paint as the name suggests and to understand the concept I have a couple examples for you keep in mind concepts are the most important thing in Photoshop now look at this example for example we want to remove the yellow and keep the red right now the limits is set to discontiguous have a look at what it does if I make the brush big enough and start painting right here it removes the yellow even inside the bars right let's paint right here it removes the yellow even inside the red bars okay now let's go back if I change this to contiguous and then start painting it just doesn't go inside the bar so in this case when it's set to contiguous it will only remove the pixels which are physically attached to the color that you are removing make sense so if I'm removing this color all the yellow pixels that were physically attached to it will be removed however have a look inside the bars these are not physically attached to the yellow pixels outside the red bar and that's why they were not removed similarly if I make the brush a little smaller and paint inside right here see it's still not touching the other yellows so that's what contiguous is now the next one is find edges it's similar to contiguous but it allows Photoshop to find where the edges are it detects for the edges and it's kind of more accurate keeps the edges a little sharp but it's just like contiguously even if I paint right here it's just like this so the main difference you have to keep in mind is between contiguous and disk contiguous all right now let's talk about tolerance think about tolerance as how many colors you can tolerate doesn't make sense let's head over to example number three and to better understand tolerance we will use the magic wand ooh and this is a simple gradient from green to yellow right now the tolerance is 50 right see if I click right here a range of color is selected right let's press ctrl or command D if I set the tolerance to zero and then when I click here only that shade of green only the exact same shade of green is selected press ctrl or command D if I click here the same thing happens only that exact shade of yellow is selected press ctrl or command D now if I increase the tolerance to say 20% if I click here the range has been increased which means we are including more colors into the selection press ctrl or command D if I set the tolerance 200 click and even largest section is selected the more we increase the tolerance the more that colors will be affected in any way whether we are erasing stuff whether we are selecting stuff so tolerance is just the range of colors that we are including around the color that we just clicked on or sampled ok so if I increase the tolerance to say 255 and click everything is selected all right I think it makes sense now now if you return to our image select the background eraser tool set the limits to discontiguous why because we are painting around the hair and we want to remove the background from between the hairs we don't want to limit it it's not a hard edge right so we'll set this contiguous right here and tolerance right now is 50 so it's painting all right removing the background it's pretty cool what if we decrease the tolerance to say 5% if they'll only paint the exact same colors then it will not take into consideration any color nearby so let's go ahead and increase the tolerance to 20/20 is pretty good but it's still leaving out some colors so that's why we chose 50 now it's also important that you don't choose too high so if you choose let's say hundred it will also taking into consideration the color of the hair as well so if I just paint with hundred right here it also starts erasing the hair a little bit if you the hundred I you guess is the maximum right there so don't choose one hundred see it's also erasing the hair we don't want that to happen a general rule here is to select the lowest tolerance possible the lowest tolerance that will remove the background that's why we start with let's say two three four five five didn't work so we will try nine and then we'll start painting it just doesn't work maybe let's increase it increase it to thirty thirty works pretty fine it works pretty good but it still leaves out some colors then we will try thirty nine forty forty is pretty great so we can have different tolerances for different areas just keep in mind that when you start from a lower number and then when you reach a point where the tolerance just works for the image stop right there don't go beyond that because in that case you might remove things that you didn't want to right now using all these techniques that we learned we will remove the background of the subject and then we will learn how to make it non-destructive so let's go ahead and start right from scratch I'm gonna select that layer and press the Delete key to delete it and then we're gonna make a copy of the background layer press ctrl or command J and then place it above the solid color adjustment layer now let's do it right from the beginning we're gonna select discontiguous for the hair and then 40% is fine let's see how that works and if it doesn't work then we increase just simply start and paint here it's leaving out some areas as I can see so I'm gonna go with 50/50 was great for this image now for your image it might be different just around the edges it's working pretty great sometimes it might fry up the edges in that case you might want to decrease the tolerance so I'm gonna go 45 ish just a basic one will do maybe if you want to increase it now let's go 55 if it's too much let's go 40-ish right here this is okay all right that was bad let's go back okay you have done the hair but for the body since this has a hard edge and we don't want to get inside we will select find edges or contiguous it's quite and select find edges just won't go inside so Photoshop tries to find the edges sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't let's try increasing the tolerance to 70 and if it doesn't work we will select contiguous since the background has a little texture it's having a little difficulty so we're gonna select contiguous right here and change the tolerance to 50 back again yes it works pretty good from time to time you might have to pick up the brush and then pain to be able to sample that color right so if you are continuing from here it won't just paint right here so you have to pick up and then again pink this is good this is easy and I think we are pretty much done we just have to do the edge all right just paint over here pretty nice and let's do this area this green area right there yes you've taken care of looks okay you just had to do the borders and it's fine let's do this area properly okay now let's learn how to make it non-destructive it's pretty simple we just did it so let's bring the background or let's make a copy of the background lip one more copy copy two and let's bring it above the solid color adjustment all right then we will hold the ctrl or command click on the thumbnail of the background copy or let's name it subject one and this one was destructive let's name it subject one destruct I'm forgetting the Spelling's or the controller command click on the thumbnail now you can delete it or you can keep it doesn't really matter turn this off I'm just gonna turn it off come back to this one and we're gonna name it subject non-destructive just click on the mask button now you have the mask off the same thing I can delete it subsequent destructive we don't need it I don't know why I named one but that's okay now you select the brush next let's make the brush a little smaller let's make it soft and flow and opacity at 100 hold the alt or option click on the mask button and then you can paint out the extra areas with black make sure the foreground color is black you can just press X to toggle between the foreground and the background let's go back and just paint in black in these areas and fill up the rest of the areas just like so easy very easy to do done now for the critical areas if you want to find unit you can also choose the blend mode overlay and then decrease the flow to somewhere around 20 to 30 percent so I'm going to decrease it to 20 percent that way it just won't paint on the white areas now if I paint here see how nicely it's working fine-tuning the stuff all right let's do it on the other side this is fine let's do it right here right there just a little bit as fine now if you want to bring some things back which have been erased accidentally you can do that as well so you can choose overlay with the same overlay selected you can change the foreground color to white press X to toggle between the foreground and the background and now we can paint right here now when you have white selected it just won't paint on the black area see it just won't paint over there right so we can easily paint on the inside without being afraid let's do it over here that is taken care of let's do it over here you can increase the flow if you want to but I'm pretty happy with this one all right I'm just roughly doing it for you let's work it out over here let's all right you're in good shape hold the alt or option click on a mouse button and it's done wasn't that Hassan now you have a mask you can do whatever you want if you think this is very fried up you can make it smooth you can blur it out you can simply take the blur too so right here you'll find the blur too and you can blur in the mask hold the alt or option click on the mask button to show how it looks you can simply blur it out you can smooth it out you can do whatever you want you have a mask you can modify it in every way possible this is non-destructive what more do you want so that was pretty much all about the background eraser - in Photoshop it's a hidden gem if you use it properly so is it better than selected masks does it mean that the quick selection tool is completely trash or select subject is totally useless Naruto every technique feature and - has its own place a lot of you guys asked in the comments and I absolutely appreciate it is that hey you makes you just taught me this technique is this better than the previous one that you covered well that's for you to decide that's for your image to decide and that's for your situation to decide just a quick little recap first of all we have the sampling times right here this one is the continuous this samples one and this samples from the background swatch we will mostly be using these two but my favorite is the mirror one it samples the first time you paint ok so first time you put down the brush it samples then next we have limits we have contiguous discontiguous and Edge's contiguous removes the colors which are only attached by pixel to the area that you are painting in it won't go cross borders the discontiguous will go cross borders and find edges tries to find the edge and then remove it accordingly most of the times it just doesn't work but you have a flat background it might now the tolerance is how many colors you can tolerate it's the range of colors being affected the higher the tolerance the more the range and that's pretty much it and then you start painting and then you remove it now to make it non-destructive you make one more copy of the original image hold the ctrl or command click on the thumbnail of the subject where you just remove the background now you have the selection now select the new copy and click on the mask button now you have the mask of the same thing so that's all for this video hope this video helped you and if it did make sure to give us a like and also don't forget to subscribe and not just subscribe it ring the bell so that you my friend don't miss any other feature tip trick or tutorial I would like to take this moment to thank all these nice and amazing people who are supporting this channel on patreon and helping keep its imperfect free for everybody forever thank you for only support thank you for watching I'll see you guys in my next one till then stay tuned and make sure that you keep creating [Music]

Channel: PiXimperfect

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Keywords: cut out hair, remove background, transparent background photoshop, background eraser tool, select hair, select and mask, hair masking, cut out hair fast, compositing, non-destructive editing, adobe, photoshop, tutorial, piximperfect, unmesh dinda

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Length: 18min 25sec (1105 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 20 2018