how to select all this objects below in the image to change background color?

[johannes999]

I have this image when I use object selection tool it is selecting only the monitor and not the keywoord and the mouse .  I want to know which is easiest way to select all this objects because I want to change the background color .  when I  try to change the background color  I see all the other objects are disappearing except the monitor.

thanks

[didiermazier]

The keyboard and mouse are vey light.

I would convert the layer as a smart object and darken the image (by any mean curves, levels…) to select those parts.

Once selected I could revert the dark settings to normal.

Darken and selected :

 

Dark setting off :

 By the way I found this image already transparent via Google…

[johannes999]

thanks,

I made it smart object and selected darker modus but I don't see any changes .

can you explain to me step by step what to do ?

I am using phtoshop 2023

[didiermazier]

5 easy steps 

1. Convert to smart object
2.  Apply a level setting 
   
3.  push the left cursor to the right to darkern the image
   
4. Select objects using this tool . Not sure that 2023 had this tool so select with  magic wand or any other selection tool (shift to add the selections one to another)
   
5. Mask with the active selection
   

    You do not need the level setting any longer… so you can delete…

[Conrad_C]

…when I use object selection tool it is selecting only the monitor and not the keywoord and the mouse .

By @johannes999

By default, the Object Selection tool works the same way as other selection tools: Each time you use it, it makes a new selection. To retain an existing selection so that you can add more areas to the same selection, click the Add to Selection button in the options bar at the top (or hold down the Shift key), as shown in the demo below.

Another method is to drag around all objects instead of clicking each one, but that method doesn’t seem to work very well with this image.

[johannes999]

thanks,

my question is for Didie  .

I have done from option 1 to 4 .  by the fourth option I have used object selection (now I am using photoshop 2024)  untill this point is OK  but how I have to mask with the active selection .  can you  tell me how to do it ?

thanks 

this is for Conrad I did the selection it is not selecting the monitor  perfectly as by you and when I use the add selectrion it is not working at all. it is not selecting the other objects at all ?

[Conrad_C]

this is for Conrad I did the selection it is not selecting the monitor  perfectly as by you and when I use the add selectrion it is not working at all. it is not selecting the other objects at all ?

By @johannes999

Is the image the same one you posted? Because that is a low resolution, low quality image that is difficult to work with because of compression artifacts. My example used the nice version that Didier found (that already had the background removed anyway, I re-flattened it for the demo).

I have cut out similar Apple Mac images before, using the original high-resolution images provided for public download by Apple themselves in their press kit. Yes, I do find that the automatic selection tools in Photoshop sometimes do not create a perfect edge on them (because of things like subtle shadows), so because the Apple gear has very straight lines and regular corner radii, in those cases I will simply do a very quick trace of the outlines with the Pen tool and then convert those paths to a nice clean selection. You might consider that alternate technique as an option for this image.

[johannes999]

thanks for your response .

the option which has Didie it worked . but I don't understand option 5 (Mask with the active selection)

how I can mask or which steps I have to take to mask active selection etc .  I don't work with photoshop I use it only to change resolutions of images and change format to webp.  sometimes only to change background color.

[johannes999]

thanks both of you ,

I have used pen tool and made selection and copy and past to onother document .  it worked but the mouse I can not copy it .

it gives an error that it is empy place .  how it comes while there is mouse object maybe because the resolution is low.

any suggestion is welkome about the mouse how I can copy it and paste in onother document

thank you