The Easy Background Remover tool in Photoshop

Today I bring you the hidden gem in Photoshop, which you can use to remove your image background easily. This tutorial made possible with the help of some finest designers from Clipping World. So Thanks to them and let’s get started.

So there’s an actual tool in Photoshop that allows us to remove the background. We are not talking about any selections or mosques. You’ll be blown away to see how powerful customizable advanced and easy-to-use this, who can be sometimes it’s so accurate it’s just amazing but why don’t we use it why don’t we talk about it so much. There is one major drawback this tool actually has and today we can see whether we can solve that drawback and make this one of the best tools to remove backgrounds in Photoshop. So without any further delay let’s get started.

Here we are in the magical world of Photoshop. First of all, where is the tool actually?

Have a look right here but this is the eraser, right? So if you click and hold have a look at the tools under the group the second one is the one that we are looking for, it literally says the Background Eraser Tool.

Select that and then make a copy of the background layer just for backup (press CTRL or Command J).

Now let’s go ahead and create a solid color adjustment layer click on the adjustment layer icon and then choose a solid color and we’re going to choose a color like black and then hit OK.

Now bring down the solid color adjustment layer under layer one why because in layer one you’re going to erase the background.

So let’s go ahead and select layer 1 and right now there are some settings set up you’re going to talk about settings later. We’ll learn all about that but I just want to show you how this tool actually works. So simply just start from the background make the brush a little smaller and softer and start painting and see how easily the background is being removed.

Why are we seeing black because in the background? Because we have black just below layer 1 and we are erasing the background in layer 1. So how does it actually work, you tell Photoshop what color the background is your paint on the background Photoshop analyzes for the background is removes it. Now there’s one major drawback this two has. We just did it which is demonstrated it pause it think about it for a moment what is the one major drawback. Have a look at it closely if we remove the background then, for example, I accidentally painted right in.

What if I want this area back? There are no masks if we were doing selected masks or doing any other method involving masks you could have just painted white in that area and got that area back. That is the biggest drawback of this tool that it works destructively. We cannot work nondestructively with this or what if we can. Hold that thought for a moment, we’ll talk about how to make this tool non-destructive later but right now let’s learn about all these settings at the top. So the first one first three right here takes care of the sampling.

How are we sampling the colors? Okay, so the first one is continuous sampling. Wherever you paint it continuously samples from the area under the crosshair. So if I paint right here it will continue the sample from the middle of the brush see the crosshair in the middle. You just paint and it continuously samples.

Now the drawback is what if you put it over the hair, it also samples the hair and erases it. It is good when you have hard edges and the background color is constantly changing otherwise it’s useless.

The second one is one-time sampling. It samples just once. What does that mean? If you click on that and then you start the sample it takes a sample from area under the crosshair but it just doesn’t continuously sample so if I start painting from here it samples the green color beneath the crosshair and then just keeps it as long as I hold down the brush as long as I don’t release the brush.

So if I keep on painting and even if I get inside this it just won’t remove it because it has sampled that color already. How this is working it samples the first time so if I start painting from the green area it samples the green color and even if I try to get in it just won’t paint over there. Have a look at this interesting thing our eyes are green right so if I start painting from the green area it didn’t remove anything but it removed the eye area because that area was green.

So it’s ambling just once.

Now the third one is background sampling. It sample background swatch so whatever color is in the background swatch that color will be erased but that’s not very useful. The first two other ones, that we’re going to use all the time mostly the second one is my favorite.

Let’s talk about limits. It’s right up there, so what are limits? Read more here…