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How to Remove Background in Photoshop Tutorial - And Add Grain, Shadow, and More
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- 1 Three primary sites that I use for free photos.
- 2 Unsplash
- 3 Pexels
- 4 rawpixels.com
- 5 For paid project
- 6 Shutterstock or Adobe Stock
- 7 How to download
- 8 Spend more time looking for a photo
- 9 remove a background.
- 10 select
- 11 select and mask.
- 12 Select Subject in Photoshop
- 13 select the mask
- 14 Select Subject
- 15 Clean up
- 16 Lasso tool
- 17 Photoshop tools that you use for selecting are represented here.
- 18 equivalent to the quick selection tool.
- 19 equivalent to brushing on your mask.
- 20 tool similar to select subject,
- 21 And then you've got the lasso tool, and that's awesome.
- 22 clean up anything
- 23 lasso tool default behavior - adding
- 24 if you hold down option it's going to subtract. PC ALT
- 25 more on using the brush
- 26 control brush feathering
- 27 not super sharp, so I'm going to use the brush here.
- 28 edge detection.
- 29 Avoid step effect
- 30 not creating that step effect.
- 31 background - copy it.
- 32 adding grunge layers - nucly.com/grunge-textures
- 33 adding proper depth
- 34 add another layer
- 35 adding gradient
- 36 adding a background light
- 37 fade this layer
- 38 clip at the bottom, something like that.
- 39 add more vignetting around this.
- 40 us of elliptical marquee
- 41 new trick using a curves layer
- 42 making a marquee
- 43 circular oval.
- 44 Add adjustment layers
- 45 a curves adjustment layer, make it darker
- 46 curb mask properties
- 47 invert the mask feathering
- 48 about 500 pixels.
- 49 transforming a mask - Command T PC: Ctrl T
- 50 transforming a circle
- 51 layer mask on curves and your darkening with a big feather
- 52 moving vignette
- 53 add a little blur to it to simulate lens that had shallow depth of field
- 54 make it so it all belongs together by adding a curve
- 55 Using one of my color presets - nucly.com/nucly-gradient-maps-vol-1
- 56 Use of gradient presets to get a unique look
- 57 other techniques
- 58 But the one I showed here is the one that I use 95% of the time
- 59 brushing out elements in a mask
- 60 black on the mask makes part of the image disappear
- 61 White makes it appear
- 62 adding noise to simulate film grain
- 63 add a layer at the very top and add some grain
- 64 take a layer fill it with 50% grain - H0 S0 B50
- 65 Put this on overlay
- 66 add filter noise, add noise
- 67 Adding monochromatic noise and Gaussian blur
- 68 sources, I struggle with that, making them unified and with the shadows too.
- 69 adding shadows technique
- 70 make a copy of person
- 71 fill that with black
- 72 Use a transform and reshape
- 73 add some Gaussian blur to it
- 74 Take down the opacity
- 75 Match other shadows in the image
- 76 quick select here to adjust shadow
- 77 adding linear gradient on top of the shadow
- 78 shout out to Wendy C on the Nucly group.
- 79 good course for beginners on Nucly.com right now?
- 80 Photoshop Secrets for $27 but right now I am giving it away for FREE
- 81 free goodies and tools?
- 82 So for all three projects, you get the textures, the overlays
- 83 the lens flares, the lighting like all the things that you need
- 84 close to 50 assets that you get with the course in order
- 85 you can use in any of your own projects
