Isolating subjects on a white background in Photoshop
Friday, November 6th, 2009This tutorial will show you how to place the main subject of a picture onto a white background using photoshop. These sorts of images are very popular with graphic designers because they can easily work the image around text in an article. It also puts the entire focus of the image onto the subject.
To do this tutorial you will need to already understand the following Photoshop techniques.
• Layers and masks
• Selection tools
This tutorial will work in both the full version of Photoshop as well as Elements.
Open up your image in Photoshop
Double click the background layer, a window will appear, click OK. This is to stop it being a background layer. Create a new layer beneath your subject layer and fill it in white.
