Now switch to the moVe tool and nudge up once and then down once with your arrow keys on the keyboard. This will close the selection in around the subject.

Now you can do such things as make a new background layer by creating a new layer and then filling it with a color of your choice using any of my taught methods. To fill an entire layer you’ll want to Select: Deselect (Ctrl/Cmd D)

the selection and then fill otherwise you’ll fill the selected area on a new layer. Make sure that layer is beneath the foreground layer in the layers palette.

Grab a large regular eraser and just clean up the spots or pixel dust that is left behind on the layer of your foreground subject.

Change the color if you want to, swipe a gradient, pull in a different background image with the moVe tool, add some text, etc. and you’re ready for print.

In this case I want you to know I didn’t spend the time cleaning up the rest of the foreground layer. Hopefully the designer in you is cringing and thinking what is that ugly red background doing with this nice family?…good you’re thinking. (I was in a hurry making 60 of these tutorials in a few days) Now pull in a background picture that would work nice in my other tutorials. I would also recommend a background if you want to keep any grass that would complement the foreground layer and which you could do some ‘radial gradient layer masking’ to get a perfect blend (zhooommmm).

Yes this advanced technique is taught in the Basic Photoshop training program in-depth. I just can’t give away all the secrets yet can I? The more I look at this photo the more I wonder what I was thinking. But hopefully you learned the background eraser tool and much more in this tutorial. If you have any concerns about the quality of my portfolio or design skills please check out the iPSDirectory immediately or my design tutorials on PhotoshopDesign.NET.

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