Find Adobe Photoshop

programme on the desktop

or in All programmes.

Click on Edit and Enhance.

Go to File in the

top left hand

part of the

screen to start

your project.

Go down to

select New and

then across to

select Blank

File.

Photoshop Tutorials: Getting Started and Removing

Background using Magic Wand

In the box that pops up, Name: call the project something useful.

Preset: Go down the list using the arrow and select A4.

Colour Mode: Has to be RGB Colour

Background Contents: Select Transparent. When you do this your

preset will automatically change to custom which is fine, don’t

change it back! Hit ok.

Go find your images. Hit File, Open and select the

location of your pictures.

Select what part of the picture you want using ‘rectangular marquee

tool’ if you want all of it, select all of it.

Then go to edit and hit copy. (You can’t right click the image to select

copy on photoshop).

Select your empty page you created at the beginning and hit edit, paste.

*Helpful tip: you can expand the page by dragging the bottom corner

out.*

You can use the ‘move tool’ to make the image bigger and move it

around the page, when you resize make sure when you are done you

hit the to seal the decision. Your picture may pixelate if its not

good enough quality, but check first by hitting the tick it may clear.

*Helpful tip: If you hold down the shift key on your keyboard you can

keep the picture in proportion so it doesn’t end up being skewed. Works

well especially with faces.

Once you have

completed these steps

with all your images

we can remove the

background from your

image. You can do this

using two tools.

1.

‘Magic Ward Tool’ for block

colour backgrounds.

2.

‘Selection Brush Tool’ for more

complicated backgrounds

Magic ward - click on the magic wand tool then click on the block

colour within your picture and you should find that it highlighted the

selected area with a zigzag line.

When you hit delete

you will find the

zigzag area gone,

revealing the

background. Double

click the mouse and

the zigzag line

should disappear.

You can do the

same to all other

bits of block col-

our within the pic-

ture.

However if the background to the picture is the same colour as the fore-

ground or is patterned you may find ‘magic wand’ does not work.

This is when we use ‘selection brush tool’

It is like magic wand but it lets you choose where to put the zigzag line and you

can change the size of your brush.

Do the bigger bits with a big brush and reduce the size of your brush as

you move in to do the outline. Don’t be afraid to zoom in!

*Helpful Tip: If you go over the line you want to keep you can use the

Alt key on your keyboard. Hold it down and it takes away the zigzag

line.

Once you’ve got the line all the way round the bit you

want to delete hit delete. Then go back to magic wand

and click twice to get rid of the zigzag line. Your done,

admire your work!