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hello there you're Washington's the , place to be to develop your creative , skills and grow as a designer in this , tutorial we're going to be taking a look , at the background eraser tool in Adobe , Photo shop so I'vie got a photo here of a , woman now the background eraser tool is , particularly useful when you'retrying , to cut out hair so what we're going to , do is take this photograph here and , we're going to effectively remove the , gray background and then we're going to , be able to lay in aback ground color of , our choice so effectively the woman will , be on a transparent background so to , start with we have our layer here our , background layer that is locked we can , double click this and we'll call this , woman and then in the layers palette , create a new layer and just drag this , underneath now if you select the fill , tool on the left and just select a nice , bright color it dozen't matter which , color it is as long as it's nice and , bright because when we remove this , background the bright color will show , through and it make sit much easier to , see which bits we'vie cut out , successfully so let's fill this layer , one with our bright color and we'll call , this awesome bright color if I could , spell , there we go so now let's select our , woman layer above and just left-click , and hold on the eraser tool and select , background eraser tool now you can , adjust the size of the brush by using , the square brackets that's the left and , right square brackets so the left square , bracket reduces the size and the right , square bracket increases the size so , that's very handy for working on , something quickly just to be able to , change the size of your brush and you'vie , got a few different settings here we , want to select the middle one so the , sampling is once so because our , background is all pretty much one color , or very close to one color when we , sample this color we want to only remove , this color so we don't want to remove , any of the skin tones the purple from , the dress or anything else we just want , to sample this gray background and , remove that one color you can select , some other options like continuous , sampling that will continuously sample , from wherever you select but that will , cut into our photo here and we don't , want now we just want to literally take , out the background so let'select , sampling once limits contiguous that's , fine protect foreground color so that , box is selected the tolerance this is , one bit that may need a little bit of , experimenting so what the tolerance is , if you have your tolerance set very low , say five percent or ten percent it will , be bit much more strict in what it cuts , out what part of the image it removes if , your tolerance is set very high for , example fifty or sixty percent it will , remove the background but it may also , remove parts of the image so let me , demonstrate that so if we select our , tolerance as five and we'll left click , anywhere on the gray to sample this , color you'll see that it removes this , and yellow background shows through , but there's still quite a lot of grey , left that it USN't removing in fact it's , doing a very poor job of actually , cutting out the hair , so we need to adjust that so again , conversely let's go up to% so we'vie , set it a lot higher we'll left-click to , sample the gray background that we want , to remove and you can see that we'vie set , it now to high and it actually tries to , remove parts of the image so if we set , this to W%and this may take ab it of , trial and error just to find the right , tolerance depending on your image but , once you get the tolerance right you can , left-click on the gray or your , background color and just drag holding , that left-click down not letting go and , you can drag over your image in , particular around the hair and the skin , and you'll see that it cuts it out very , very well indeed considering I'm doing , this in literally W seconds it's , more about getting in the detail around , the hair you can zoom in as you need to , and adjust the tolerance for different , parts and you can actually spend quite a , lot of time doing this I'm just doing , this very quickly to illustrate how to , use this tool so there we go we'vie done , most of the work , we can now left-click and hold and , select the eraser tool and just use that , to finish off any loose ends so the , background eraser tool is particularly , good for cutting around things like hair , very very specifically and then we can , just go and use the standard eraser tool , just to get rid of all that these are , the bits over here , so now we can see how well we'vie cut , this out by our yellow background we can , zoo min a bit we can see that it's done , a pretty good job of cutting around all , those little strands of hair which would , have taken as hours and if we select our , awesome bright color layer we can press , command on the Mac or control on the , PC to bring up our hue and saturation , options and we can adjust the hue and , change that color to anything that we , like you can increase the lightness to , have that as white or all the way down , to black or what you can do is simply , deselect this layer and you'll see that , we now have our woman cut out on a , transparent background and we could even , lay a photograph or blur a background , behind there we can do anything now that , we have her Ina transparent background , there we go that'show we can use the , background eraser tool in Adobe , Photo shop as always guys please feel , free to leave any questions or comments , below , like this video if you enjoyed it take , care and I'll see you next time .
