Envision the subject of your photograph surrounded by a very different background -- one you've designed in the ground-up using your imagination. Before you can set your topic into a completely new landscape, you'll need to eliminate the history of the original image . Wallpaper removal is a tricky art and requires more than only the eraser tool, but you don't need to be a picture design whiz to find out the measures in Adobe Photoshop CC. Taking away the background from a photo can be a really tricky endeavor, particularly if the topic you need to cut out gets plenty of hair, or whether the backdrop is exceedingly intricate. We take you through the procedure of eliminating a background from a picture using Photoshop to help you overcome this challenge. First, you'll need to open the picture you would like to eliminate the background from in Adobe Photoshop (you can get Photoshop here). Here, I'm using a photograph I took of a giraffe in Colchester Zoo to show this technique, which includes a very defined boundary between the bit we want to keep (the giraffe) and the backdrop. For pictures with fine detail about what you want to cut -- for example hair -- visit our tutorial about the best way to cut hair from Photoshop. I am using Adobe CC, but the background removal procedure detailed here will work in Photoshop CS5 and over, though some components may seem slightly different. Once you've chosen the image that you need to eliminate the background from and opened it in Photoshop, you can move on to the very first measure. Photoshop's Quick Selection Tool utilizes artificial intelligence to determine in real time where the borders of the topic and the start of the background collapse. The application works best when there is a clear difference between your foreground choice and your background. When there's too much similarity in the pixels, then it is going to get confused and you will spend hours adding and subtracting elements. When you've completed the initial choice, you are able to toggle between adding to the choice and subtracting in the choice from the menu. The pen Tool is the furthest from AI selection you can get without going freehand. (Freehand is, of course, an option it is possible to use--in Layer and Mask-- particularly if fuzzy advantages are OK, including a light sea from a light sky.) Anyhow, the Pen Tool allows you to draw around an area by means of a combination of straight lines and bending curves. You can toggle between the two by mousing over a node and pressing the Control/ CTRL-key. Since the tool is really intuitive, it is rather hard to explain how to utilize it ! The ideal thing to do would be to watch this video by Hearn and then feel your way into using it. It's pretty fun. You would like to use the Pen Tool to make a Path (on the far left in the layer panel) then click cmd/Ctrl+click to transform it into a choice. If you're working with a choice, you might want to increase the feathering of edges a little bit because challenging edges can look unnatural, particularly against a bright background.