What is the easiest way to take a person out of an image and put them onto a transparent background!?! I've been trying for days, but it always seems jagged looking and just wrong.
Hahahaha. It took me years to refine how to do this, so I can completely understand your frustration! You can either use the pen tool or masking tool. Does your person have a lot of hair? What version of PS are you using?
Last edited by Jennifer; July 7th, 2017 at 12:54 PM.
Yes there is hair, it is a photo of my wife, and she wanted her body etc. cut out and moved to another background. I am using the latest version of Photoshop (Creative Cloud).
I know have a full understanding of why people go to school for this and why they make the big bucks!!!
Not sure how much this video will help but it's a start. Most tutorials will show you how to do this on solid backgrounds WHICH isn't the case in real life most of the time, such as your photo. Maybe there will be some tricks in this video to help you with smoothing the edges. It is really tricky but hopefully this will help.
Yes, graphic design is NOT easy for sure! Trust me, I went to school for 4 years for it, and 10 years later I'm still learning! Glad the tut helped though. Once you do it more and more you will get better at it, but it will take time, it's all a process. :)
Last edited by Jennifer; July 7th, 2017 at 12:55 PM.
Well after a few weeks on and off of messing with this, I am pretty sure I "fixed" it enough for my wife to be happy. This was a nerve racking experience. I hope to never ever open Photoshop again!
Yeah, I can definitely relate. PS is quite a beast to work with, I remember all the stress I went through in college when I opened PS for the first time. Glad you didn't give up though!
Despite my best efforts of never doing Photoshop again, I have failed. I had to do some minor work today and man, I hate this crap. Really... Who would want to do this for a living!?!?! No offense to those that do! This stuff is for the birds.
I have a new found respect though for people that have the skills to do this every day for a living.
There is no such thing as failure, you just keep learning, you never stop learning. I've been doing PS for 10+ years and I still learn something new EVERY DAY! It is a hard program to learn and get use to and people think all you do is click on buttons. It's complex, just keep trying and keep learning, it doesn't happen in a day! :)
Why is Photoshop so hard!?!
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