Imagine the subject of your photo surrounded by a completely different background -- you've made in the ground-up using your creativity. Before you may place your topic into a completely new landscape, then you will want to eliminate the history of the original image first. Wallpaper removal is a tricky art and requires more than just the eraser tool, but you don't have to be a graphic layout whiz to find out the steps in Adobe Photoshop CC. Taking away the background out of a photograph can be a really tricky endeavor, especially if the topic you need to cut out gets plenty of hair, or if the background is extremely complex. Here, we take you through the process of eliminating a background from a picture using Photoshop to help you conquer this challenge. First, you'll need to start the image you wish to eliminate the desktop from in Adobe Photoshop (you can get Photoshop here). Here, I'm using a picture I took of a giraffe in Colchester Zoo to demonstrate this procedure, which has a very defined border between the piece we wish to maintain (the giraffe) and the backdrop. For pictures with fine detail about what you would like to cut -- such as hair -- visit our tutorial about how best to cut out hair from Photoshop. I am using Adobe CC, but the desktop removal technique detailed here will operate in Photoshop CS5 and over, though some components may look slightly different. As soon as you've chosen the picture that you want to remove the background from and opened it in Photoshop, you can move to the very first measure. Photoshop's Quick Choice Tool uses artificial intelligence to determine in real-time where the edges of the topic and the beginning of the background collapse. The tool works best when there is a very clear difference between your foreground selection and your background. When there is too much similarity in the pixels, then it is going to get confused and you'll spend hours adding and subtracting elements. When you've carried out the initial choice, you are able to toggle between adding to the choice and subtracting from the selection from the menu. The pen Tool is the furthest from AI selection it is possible to get without going freehand. (Freehand is, clearly, an option you can use--in Layer and Mask-- especially if fuzzy edges are OK, including a light sea against a light sky.) Anyway, the Pen Tool permits you to draw around an area by means of a combination of straight lines and bending curves. You may toggle between both by moussing above a node and pressing Control/ CTRL-key. Because the tool is so intuitive, it's quite hard to explain how to utilize it in words! The best thing to do is to watch this video by Hearn and feel your way to using it. It's pretty enjoyable. You would like to use the Pen Tool to make a Route (on the far left in the layer panel) and then click cmd/Ctrl+click to transform it into a choice. If you're working with a choice, you may want to increase the feathering of edges a little bit because challenging edges can look unnatural, particularly against removing background