STEP ONE: Open the image in Photoshop
and go to Select>Subject. This will
generate a great starting selection of
the runner. (The red shown here rep-
resents the selected area for illustration
purposes only.) Zoom in and look for
any areas missed during the creation of
the selection, and clean them up using
traditional selection tools. For quick
little modifications, use the Lasso tool
(L) with the Shift or Option (PC: Alt)
keys to add and subtract to the current
active selection.STEP TWO: Click on the lock icon on the
Background layer to unlock it and make
it an editable layer. In the Layer menu,
go to New>Layer Via Cut (Shift-Com-
mand-J [PC: Shift-Ctrl-J]) to place the
runner on his own layer. You can click
the Eye icon next to the runner layer in
the Layers panel to see the transparent
hole left on the original Background
layer. Double-click the name of the
runner layer and rename it “Runner.”STEP THREE: We need to make a selection
of the hole so we can repair it with
Content-Aware Fill. A quick way to do
this is to hold the Command (PC: Ctrl)
key, and click on the layer thumbnail of
the Background layer. This will select
all the active pixels on that Layer. Then
go to Select>Inverse and it will reverse
the selected pixels, leaving you with a
selection of the hole of the original runner.STEP FOUR: With both the Background
layer and your selection of the hole active,
go to Select>Modify>Expand. Set the
Expand By value to 2 pixels and click
OK. This will help ensure that you don’t
have a gap that can create artifacts when
you replace an area with Content-Aware.
PHOTOSHOP USER
^
JA N U ARY 20
2 1