Tutorial: How to remove background image using pen tool

Posted on March 12 by Clay

I found out that using a pen tool to remove a simple drawing is the best and fastest way of achieving this goal.

1. Fire up your photoshop and open an image as shown below.

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2. Use the Pen tool and highlight the area you wish to extract and on the Layer Palette click on the Paths section and click on ‘Load path as a selection’.

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3. press Q to verify whether there is any problem with the image you have highlighted.

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4. If there is no much problem,  click Select->Inverse duplicate another layer. This will select all other image other than the one you have highlighted. P.S: The work path on the Path section must be clicked and the dotted line must be shown before inverse can be click.

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5. Once a duplicate has been created, press Ctrl+X or delete button on the keyboard.

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