Comments on: Remove Portrait Background in Photoshop

By: jeremiah

jeremiah — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:44:14 +0000

That’s because CS5 has removed the extract tool, although you can have it installed separately. CS5 has moved to the Refine Edge model. I’ll write a tutorial on this when I become more familiar with it, but in the meantime, you can watch a video here:

http://layersmagazine.com/photoshop-cs5-refine-edge.html

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:21:23 +0000

In PS CS5.5 there is no Extract on the Filters menu (in Windows)! Am i just an idiot or was it moved. The help wasn’t much help.

Thanks

By: John

John — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:19:55 +0000

Nigel

I had a similar problem. You need to go to the ‘Window’ menu and open the ‘History’ window. You can ‘designate a history state’by clicking next to one of the editing stages which are displayed in that window.

By: jeremiah

jeremiah — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:31:53 +0000

It’s usually too tedious of a process.

By: jeremiah

jeremiah — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:31:12 +0000

You just create a new layer in your layers palette and make sure it’s below the layer with your image on it. Then just past a new image onto the new layer. Viola!

By: Lux

Lux — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:20:15 +0000

Thanks!

By: tscouple

tscouple — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:04:39 +0000

hi
just a small question – how do I add the new background to the back of the new photo??
thanks

By: Nigel

Nigel — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:49:33 +0000

Tutorial was good until I got to the history brush. At that stage an error message came: ‘could not use this history brush because no history state has been designated as the source of painting’. I looked back to the tutorial but nothing was mentioned there.