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November 22, 2022
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Photoshop version CS6

  • November 22, 2022
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Need steps to cut out complex background from image, then duplicate result onto another image

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Participant
November 23, 2022

Continuing my search for steps to cut out background in CS6, I found 13 steps on the web including the following step,"On the Horizontal Toolbar Select ADD TO SELECTION, change your sample size to POINT SAMPLE, change your tolerance to 32, and CHECK anti-alias, contiguous, and sample all layers."  Can anyone tell me how to display the Horizontal toolbar?

Kevin Stohlmeyer
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Community Expert
November 23, 2022

That is the options bar at the top of your workspace. When you are on the magic wand tool there are options to add to/subtract from select and a tolerance value field.

chrisg11235813
Participating Frequently
November 22, 2022

Back in the days before this was an automatic feature, I would have tried looking in the chanels pallet,  sometimes the bacgrouund is better defined in a single chanel.

Also, you might be able to use an adjustment layer to "bump up" the contrast between subject and background.  Use this to help "Automagically" select the background and clip it out.

I think CS6 has the magic-wand tool (?)

 

Legend
November 22, 2022

If you are asking for steps its probably not going to happen. Removing a complex background is difficult for even experienced users.

One thing to note is that Adobe has added a lot of features in Photoshop CC to select complex subjects. This will probably be MUCH easier with an up-to-date version rather than the obsolete CS6.

Kevin Stohlmeyer
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 22, 2022

Do you have an example you can post?

There are multiple ways to acheieve and without knowing specifics its hard to give direction.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/compositing.html