timbros: cool tutorials...will try it out as soon as i reach home.

Btw I have CS3 in my system. Hope it works.

More tutorials please...I need to learn photoshop so much...

following

erad:
i made that on CS3... thats wat i use.

spywareczar: Yes Boss @Erad, I see Ɣøµ, nice tut

erad: we select the brush tool and paint black within the red outline so that the entire image will be black and the background white. then we go to 'select' on the menu bar and click on 'color range'. a dialogue box appears, and you select the white background of the image with the eyedropper tool that appears. increase the fuzziness to 200(thats the maximum) and click on ok.

The background would have been selected. Now remember that all the things we've been doing has been on the duplicated layer. so while the selection is stil active, we hide the duplicated layer, select the initial layer, double click on the layer to unlock it and press delete to remove the parts that the marquee selection covers.

After creating a black layer under the initial picture layer that the background was removed, you should be having something similar to what is below.

timbros:

Now i'm stuck here. Please break it down. I dont understand here.

erad:
thanks sir, making tutorials is stressful o... Chei, i confuse myself tire but thank God i was able to achieve something. Hope subsequent ones are more explicit and straightforward... so help me God!

erad:
u remember we duplicated the image 1st before going through the processes of making the image distinct from the background. all the adjustments made were on the duplicated layer (we are doing it on the duplicated layer cos we don't want to affect the original image itself). After selecting the background, we hide the duplicate layer (its only purpose was to make the background distinct from the image and we have achieved that already so its useless) and click on the original image layer cos thats the background we want to remove.

Hope this makes it clearer.

ozaro: Awesome stuff

erad: we select the brush tool and paint black within the red outline so that the entire image will be black and the background white. then we go to 'select' on the menu bar and click on 'color range'. a dialogue box appears, and you select the white background of the image with the eyedropper tool that appears. increase the fuzziness to 200(thats the maximum) and click on ok.

The background would have been selected. Now remember that all the things we've been doing has been on the duplicated layer. so while the selection is stil active, we hide the duplicated layer, select the initial layer, double click on the layer to unlock it and press delete to remove the parts that the marquee selection covers.

After creating a black layer under the initial picture layer that the background was removed, you should be having something similar to what is below.

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josymba: Hi I appreciate the time n effort put into packaging this tutorial and making it available via this mass medium. Please I lost touch from where we are to create a black layer. My CS3 isn't displaying colour when I create new layer. As a result using d brush too after didn't work 4 me. HELP!!!