Remove a background with one click - Photoshop Tutorial

- [Instructor] Want to remove the background of an image? The quickest way to do it is with this quick action in Photoshop. Start by selecting the layer that contains the image. This has to be a regular pixel layer. If the image layer is a background layer like this one, then click the lock on the layer and that will convert the layer to a regular pixel layer. Now go to the properties panel. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the properties panel to find the quick action section. The quick actions that are displayed here are different for different kinds of layers. The remove background quick action only shows up if you have a regular pixel layer selected, as we do now. Now just click the remove background button, and like magic, the background disappears from the image and it's replaced by this gray checkerboard pattern, which represents transparency. Now sometimes the quick action doesn't hide everything on the background or sometimes it hides too much of the background. That's okay. You can fix that like this. In the layers panel, make sure the layer mask is highlighted with a white border. This layer mask was automatically added to the image layer by the quick action. In the toolbar, select the brush tool. If the quick action hid too much, like the back part of the shoe that looks transparent, go down to the bottom of the toolbar and make sure the foreground color is set to white. If it isn't, press X on the keyboard to switch the foreground and background colors, then paint over any areas that shouldn't be transparent. That adds white paint to the layer mask bringing this part of the image back into view. If the quick action didn't remove all of the background, then switch to black paint by pressing X on the keyboard and paint to add black to the mask hiding this little extra bit of background, and you're done. To learn more about Photoshop or to browse our entire library of courses, visit linkedin.com/learning.