Envision the topic of your photograph surrounded by a completely different background -- one you've designed from the ground-up using your imagination. Before you can place your topic into a completely new landscape, then you will need to remove the background of the first image first. Background removal is a catchy art and requires more than only the eraser tool, however you do not have to be a picture design whiz to find out the measures in Adobe Photoshop CC. Taking away the background out of a photo can be a really tricky task, especially if the topic you want to cut has lots of hair, or when the background is exceedingly complex. Here, we take you through the process of eliminating a background from an image with Photoshop to help you overcome that challenge. First, you'll need to start the image you wish to remove the desktop from in Adobe Photoshop (you may get Photoshop here). Here, I'm using a picture I took of a giraffe in Colchester Zoo to demonstrate this procedure, which includes a extremely defined border between the piece we want to maintain (the giraffe) and the backdrop. For pictures with fine detail around what you want to cut out -- such as hair -- see our tutorial about the best way to cut out hair in Photoshop. I am using Adobe CC, but the background removal technique detailed here will work in Photoshop CS5 and over, though some components may seem slightly different. Once you've selected the image that you want to eliminate the desktop from and opened it in Photoshop, you can move to the very first measure. Photoshop's Quick Choice Tool uses artificial intelligence to decide in real time where the borders of the subject and the beginning of the backdrop fall. The application works best when there's a clear difference between your foreground selection and your own background remover . If there is too much similarity in the pixels, then it is going to get confused and you will spend hours adding and subtracting elements. Once you've carried out the first choice, you can toggle between adding to the choice and subtracting in the selection in the menu. The pen Tool is the furthest from AI choice it is possible to get without going freehand. (Freehand is, of course, a choice you can use--in Layer and Mask-- particularly when fuzzy edges are OK, such as a mild sea from a light sky.) Anyhow, the Pen Tool allows you to draw around an area using a combination of straight lines and bending curves. You can toggle between both by moussing above a node and pressing Control/ CTRL-key. Since the tool is really intuitive, it's quite hard to describe how to utilize it in words! The best thing to do is to watch this movie by Hearn and then feel your way into using it. It's pretty fun. You want to use the Pen Tool to create a Path (on the far left from the layer panel) and then click cmd/Ctrl+click to transform it into a choice. If you're working with a choice, you might want to grow the feathering of edges a little bit because hard edges may appear unnatural, particularly against a bright background.