How to Remove Background in Photoshop Tutorial - And Add Grain, Shadow, and More

Three primary sites that I use for free photos.
Unsplash
Pexels
rawpixels.com
For paid project
Shutterstock or Adobe Stock
How to download
Spend more time looking for a photo
remove a background.
select
select and mask.
Select Subject in Photoshop
select the mask
Select Subject
Clean up
Lasso tool
Photoshop tools that you use for selecting are represented here.
equivalent to the quick selection tool.
equivalent to brushing on your mask.
tool similar to select subject,
And then you've got the lasso tool, and that's awesome.
clean up anything
lasso tool default behavior - adding
if you hold down option it's going to subtract. PC ALT
more on using the brush
control brush feathering
not super sharp, so I'm going to use the brush here.
edge detection.
Avoid step effect
not creating that step effect.
background - copy it.
adding grunge layers - nucly.com/grunge-textures
adding proper depth
add another layer
adding gradient
adding a background light
fade this layer
clip at the bottom, something like that.
add more vignetting around this.
us of elliptical marquee
new trick using a curves layer
making a marquee
circular oval.
Add adjustment layers
a curves adjustment layer, make it darker
curb mask properties
invert the mask feathering
about 500 pixels.
transforming a mask - Command T PC: Ctrl T
transforming a circle
layer mask on curves and your darkening with a big feather
moving vignette
add a little blur to it to simulate lens that had shallow depth of field
make it so it all belongs together by adding a curve
Using one of my color presets - nucly.com/nucly-gradient-maps-vol-1
Use of gradient presets to get a unique look
other techniques
But the one I showed here is the one that I use 95% of the time
brushing out elements in a mask
black on the mask makes part of the image disappear
White makes it appear
adding noise to simulate film grain
add a layer at the very top and add some grain
take a layer fill it with 50% grain - H0 S0 B50
Put this on overlay
add filter noise, add noise
Adding monochromatic noise and Gaussian blur
sources, I struggle with that, making them unified and with the shadows too.
adding shadows technique
make a copy of person
fill that with black
Use a transform and reshape
add some Gaussian blur to it
Take down the opacity
Match other shadows in the image
quick select here to adjust shadow
adding linear gradient on top of the shadow
shout out to Wendy C on the Nucly group.
good course for beginners on Nucly.com right now?
Photoshop Secrets for $27 but right now I am giving it away for FREE
free goodies and tools?
So for all three projects, you get the textures, the overlays
the lens flares, the lighting like all the things that you need
close to 50 assets that you get with the course in order
you can use in any of your own projects