
The quick selection tool is also located in the tools window and looks like this: This is how the process looks:Īfter erasing along the hair, I used the quick selection tool to clean up around the sleeves and hands. I then simply clicked my mouse along the hair erasing as much of the background as possible. I also had “protect foreground color” unchecked and the settings looked like this:Īs for the brush size, I used 15px and the rest of the setting looked like this: A lower tolerance level basically erases less since it is easier for Photoshop to distinguish the difference between the background and the foreground. I then used contiguous for limits which looks like this:Īs for the tolerance, I used 11% but this should be changed depending on your image. Sampling once which can be found in the top toolbar. The background eraser tool can be found in the tools window and looks like this: Next use the background eraser tool around the hair. Open the image that you want to change the background of in Photoshop and if the layer is locked, simply unlock it by double clicking on the layer in the layers window. Note that the settings have a lot to do with your image and they vary.

You can see the entire process in the video below:Ĭan’t view the video? Watch it on YouTubeīelow are the steps that I used to change the background of this image. Note that I used the regular eraser tool twice with different opacity settings.

I actually use 3 techniques for the background removal process and they involve the following tools:

#Background eraser tool photoshop cc how to
In this tutorial I show you how to change the background of an image using Photoshop CC.
