{"id":1343,"date":"2025-04-21T17:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logsbylynn.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2025-04-25T12:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:43:05","slug":"photoshop-basics-the-easy-way-select-and-cut-out-objects-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logsbylynn.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/photoshop-basics-the-easy-way-select-and-cut-out-objects-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop Basics: The Easy Way Select and Cut Out Objects (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Inexperienced Photoshop users take note: There’s actually a simple process for selecting and cutting out objects in a photo, and it’s perfect for achieving impressive edits and making attention-grabbing composites. This simple workflow from Sandra D Imagery<\/a> can become yours in the next five minutes.<\/p>\n

Sandra is an experienced photographer, digital artist, and Adobe Community Expert who leverages her skills to create easy-to-follow lessons like this one. Her sample image is a creation of a young munchkin sitting atop a stone wall, and we suggest downloading the file with the link beneath the video so you can follow along and mimic her moves in real time.<\/p>\n

As with most Photoshop tasks there are various ways to cut this little boy out of the background and today’s fuss-free method delivers very effective results. Sandra begins by unlocking the first layer with the quick click of a button. Once you do that a contextual toolbar appears at the top left of the workspace, and Sandra says, “these are my go-to tools.”<\/p>\n

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Sandra describes how Photoshop’s Selection tools have evolved significantly throughout the years. She gets going by clicking on the Remove Background option to let Photoshop do the initial groundwork.<\/p>\n

The resulting selection is surprisingly good, although Sandra says, “If I was looking for something that looked a little more detailed, I’d spend time masking to get the edges perfect.” But this is cutout is intended to small within within a composite so it’s fine as is.<\/p>\n

Sandra zooms in on the cutout to illustrate the nice detail that already exists and admits there are a few things she could do if she wanted to go beyond the basics\u2014one of which is using a Gray Layer to fine-tune masking. And she provides a link beneath the video if you want to take a deeper dive into this technique.<\/p>\n

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The next step is extracting her cutout of the boy and saving it as a PSD file or TIFF at your preference. Sandra explains that, “I do this because it has the mask attached. So if I put this on a background I can do a bit of simple tweaking.”<\/p>\n

The remainder of the lesson walks you through a step-by-step process for getting the job done to create another eye-catching composite. There’s much more to learn on the Sandra D Imagery YouTube channel<\/a>, so be sure to take a look when you have time to explore.<\/p>\n

And on a related note, don’t miss a tutorial we featured recently from another post-processing expert who demonstrates how to use the new AI-powered Remove Reflections tool<\/a> in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR).<\/p>\n

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