Photoshop - Remove Background - Isolate Foreground - Tutorial

For HIGH QUALITY: FreePhotosAndArt.com Sharp full screen video on home site. In this tutorial we are going to remove an unwanted background. To do so, we first have to isolate the foreground objects that we want to keep, in this case, some beautiful purple orchids. When you open a file, photoshop places it in a window sized large enough to allow a full preview, while remaining small enough for other files to be opened and managed at the same time. This size is not suitable for advanced editing, so we are going to enlarge it. To do so, click the View menu, and click Fit on Screen. If you hover your cursor over an edge of the window, a double-arrow cursor will appear. Click and drag the edge to give yourself more editing room. Now return to the View menu, and select Actual Pixels. This will give you a full, uninterpreted view of your file, with each pixel in your file mapping to a pixel on your screen. Use the vertical and horizontal scroll bars to find a suitable area to begin your selection. I prefer to start at the edge of the image if the foreground is touching an edge. The tool we will be using is called the Polygonal Lasso Tool. To select this tool click and hold on the third tool from the top on your toolbar, until the flyout menu appears. Choose the Polygonal Lasso Tool from the flyout menu. The Polygonal Lasso Tool works like a dot to dot drawing game. Each click of your mouse defines a dot, and straight lines are drawn beween each dot. This may appear, at first ...