3. Firstly, I opened my documents to find the photograph I wanted to edit. I
then right-clicked it and went to Open with>Adobe Photoshop CS4
4. When It had opened Photoshop, the first thing that I wanted to do was
delete all background colour. To do this I right clicked the ‘Quick Selection
Tool’ icon on the tool bar which gave me a drop down menu. I then
selected ‘Magic Wand Tool’.
This tool is useful for selecting large amounts of space as it senses which
parts of the photo are the same, in this case it sensed the border between
Beth and the background by only selecting the background.
Once the box had appeared which indicates the selected area, I pressed
backspace on my keyboard to delete it leaving me with a white
background.
5. Now that I had deleted the background colour, I needed to make a new
layer so that it was unlocked and free to add other layers to it etc. To do
this I right-clicked the Layer and selected ‘New layer from background’
and pressed OK.
6. Although I had deleted the original background from the photograph, I
hadn’t erased it so that I could add another background to it. TO do this I
right-clicked the ‘Eraser Tool’ icon on the tool bar and selected
Background Eraser Tool’.
I then changed the settings to suit my needs by enlarging the brush size,
changing the sampling to ‘Once’, changing limits to ‘Discontiguous’ and
reducing the tolerance. These are all crucial steps for erasing a
background.
7. Once it was all set up, to delete the background all I needed to do was
click and drag the cursor all over the white areas, leaving this checkered
background.
8. Now that the background was completely erased, it was time to add a
new colour to it. To do this I selected the ‘New Shape’ icon on the tool bar
and selected ‘Square’, I chose a colour clicked and dragged so that the
square size cover the photo size. At first the coloured square was on top of
the photograph. To change this I simple dragged the ‘Shape 1’ in the
Layers section so that it was beneath ‘Layer 0’.
