How to Remove Background in Photoshop Tutorial (and add grain, shadow, and more!)

Download tutorial assets here: https://www.nucly.com/replace-a-background-in-photoshop In this interview and Photoshop tutorial, I answer some common questions from Nucly subscribers—the first being: How to remove a background in Photoshop. I also cover how to add grain, using curve presets, creating a shadow and more. You can get the FREE (for now) Photoshop Secrets course here: https://www.nucly.com/photoshop-secrets-yt?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=tutorial&utm_id=yt21 — Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE and turn on notifications! And likes and shares help a lot too! Check out my full professional Photoshop training courses here: https://www.nucly.com/courses And all my asset packs here: https://www.nucly.com/tools — Follow me: Professional Training - https://www.nucly.com​ Blog - https://zevendesign.com​ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/zevendesign​ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/zevendesign​ 500px - https://500px.com/rikardrodin​ 00:00:29 Three primary sites that I use for free photos. 00:00:33 Unsplash 00:00:44 Pexels 00:00:47 rawpixels.com 00:00:52 For paid project 00:00:56 Shutterstock or Adobe Stock 00:02:32 How to download 00:03:01 Spend more time looking for a photo 00:03:22 remove a background. 00:03:26 select 00:03:30 select and mask. 00:03:35 Select Subject in Photoshop 00:03:45 select the mask 00:03:48 Select Subject 00:03:56 Clean up 00:04:09 Lasso tool 00:04:28 Photoshop tools that you use for selecting are represented here. 00:04:32 equivalent to the quick selection tool. 00:04:37 equivalent to brushing on your mask. 00:04:41 tool similar to select subject, 00:04:52 And then you've got the lasso tool, and that's awesome. 00:05:22 clean up anything 00:05:38 lasso tool default behavior - adding 00:05:44 if you hold down (option) it's going to subtract. (PC ALT) 00:06:11 more on using the brush 00:06:20 control brush feathering 00:06:35 not super sharp, so I'm going to use the brush here. 00:07:25 edge detection. 00:07:53 Avoid step effect 00:08:01 not creating that step effect. 00:08:13 background - copy it. 00:08:34 adding grunge layers - nucly.com/grunge-textures 00:09:06 adding proper depth 00:09:07 add another layer 00:09:11 adding gradient 00:09:17 adding a background light 00:09:36 fade this layer 00:09:40 clip at the bottom, something like that. 00:09:44 add more vignetting around this. 00:09:51 us of elliptical marquee 00:09:55 new trick using a curves layer 00:10:16 making a marquee 00:10:22 circular oval. 00:10:23 Add adjustment layers 00:10:27 a curves adjustment layer, make it darker 00:10:31 curb mask properties 00:10:36 invert the mask feathering 00:10:40 about 500 pixels. 00:10:42 transforming a mask - Command T (PC: Ctrl T) 00:10:47 transforming a circle 00:10:52 layer mask on curves and your darkening with a big feather 00:11:00 moving vignette 00:11:14 add a little blur to it to simulate lens that had shallow depth of field 00:12:25 make it so it all belongs together by adding a curve 00:12:34 Using one of my color presets - nucly.com/nucly-gradient-maps-vol-1 00:12:38 Use of gradient presets to get a unique look 00:13:32 other techniques 00:13:55 But the one I showed here is the one that I use 95% of the time 00:14:22 brushing out elements in a mask 00:14:44 black on the mask makes part of the image disappear 00:14:49 White makes it appear 00:15:28 adding noise to simulate film grain 00:15:35 add a layer at the very top and add some grain 00:15:40 take a layer fill it with 50% grain - H0 S0 B50 00:15:51 Put this on overlay 00:15:54 add filter noise, add noise 00:15:58 Adding monochromatic noise and Gaussian blur 00:17:00 sources, I struggle with that, making them unified and with the shadows too. 00:17:11 adding shadows technique 00:17:35 make a copy of person 00:17:40 fill that with black 00:17:43 Use a transform and reshape 00:18:18 add some Gaussian blur to it 00:18:21 Take down the opacity 00:18:25 Match other shadows in the image 00:18:49 quick select here to adjust shadow 00:19:10 adding linear gradient on top of the shadow 00:19:38 shout out to Wendy C on the Nucly group. 00:19:58 good course for beginners on Nucly.com right now? 00:20:07 Photoshop Secrets for $27 but right now I am giving it away for FREE Link here- https://www.nucly.com/photoshop-secrets-yt?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=tutorial&utm_id=tyt21 00:20:41 free goodies and tools? 00:20:45 So for all three projects, you get the textures, the overlays 00:20:50 the lens flares, the lighting like all the things that you need 00:20:55 close to 50 assets that you get with the course in order 00:21:01 you can use in any of your own projects