How the heck to know EVERYTHING about Photoshop! Though every tip you give is GOLD, this is one of the most useful of all time! You are the wisest wizard of all!
use levels rather than a filter/minimum. you have more control over the positive/negative and mid tones. additionally, if you have a stronger divergence, you can actually use the background delete tool. great for logos with simple colors
I think an easier solution is just using layer styles and having an alpha mask on grey (or blue would work on your image since it's mostly red) and then just alt clicking the sliders. This is non-destructive too 😊
Yeah this is very much a beginner artist tip in the video. For people who have no idea how to use tools. People who know their way around their tools have better methods
@@rheokalyke367 it's better to post the wrong answer in the video so everybody will share there superior methods and the person making the video can learn with the rest of us.
This is what I was gonna say, except in recent versions of PS you don't even need that. There's a contract selection zone option. (Also, you have to invert the selection before expanding, if you do it your way)
It’s not usually a long obscure process, this guy just made it really over complicated. Probably cause “click this button” doesn’t make for a full YT short, a lot of other ‘tip’ videos are like this. Wording might be different in photoshop, but in CSP you just change the area scaling number which takes half a second. Or hell even just doing the tolerance part works lol, the mask is completely unnecessary.
Well the automated feature is to use select all and choose “remove background” from the pop-up toolbar. … Then, ctrl-click the layer and invert the selection. Choose “generate” from the pop up toolbar and type “lemur party” and click Generate. You’re welcome.
Free programs like firealpaca do already do this for you, it's literally a part of the selection tool itself. You can choose for the selection to be up to positive 3 pixels all the way to -3 pixels, as well as adjusting the tolerance.
Thank you. I’ve been manually removing these pixels for the past few hours before doomscrolling and coming across this video. This is gonna save me sooooooo much time
Or you just go to select>modify>expend (my photoshop is in frensh so I might have messed up the traduction but you get the idea) and set it to 2 or 3 pixels. It's 3 clicks and 20 time more simple imo
Select>Color range is also excellent in this case as it also creates soft selections where there is color contamination (for example around the edges where the pixels may be 50% red 50% white). The problem is that it is not Contiguous therefore it selects throughout the entire image, so after selecting you may have to deselect some areas of interest that were not suposed to be selected. Or do a preselection with the magic wand, then use Color Range after
Not as soft I think, this usually leads to pretty weird looking edges it's an okay trick if your going to be sizing it down after because sizing it down will redo the anti-aliasing a bit. 😅
Its just because it doesnt work on smaller selections as well. If you are for example selecting out text and its a smaller weight you cant realistically give up that much space from your shape. I would rather approach it by masking out the background using layer styles but either his or that work better than uping a selection for more situations. Hope thise helps :)
CZcams shorts can be served to anyone, including people who don't edit stuff. It might seem like a question like that would be coming from an editor that only knew about Microsoft paint the whole time, but that is most likely not the case.
For a single colour background that isn't in the actual image (I tend to make my backgrounds different colours) I use the colour select tool and feather it.
There is a simpler way. Use the selection tool and click selection tool then select and mask. That will open some opitons that you can play with to make it smoother and better
Just use wand, tolerance 1, go to select> expand and add a couple px. Or alternatively invert the selection after using the wand and go to select> contract by a couple px.
1. Increase (or if negative selection, decrease) the selection or/and 2. feather your edge both have their uses, taking your time to learn your programs will only help you, start experimenting and learning what tools do
If it's just a mono-coloured decal or design, after getting the mask you can also just fill in the background with that colour instead of doing too much and risk cutting into and losing features of the design. Even if there are a few colours, solid colours are easy enough to deal with. Dirdling too much with filters can risk you losing certain sharper features of your design, such as sharp points.
Sometimes if the image is simple and you don't want to lose those pixels by deleting it shrinking the selection, I'll just add an inner shadow and it darkens the edges. Only works in some situations. You might even want that inner shadow look.
I just delete > undo > change threshold > repeat until I get a result I'm happy with, since most of the time I don't have pictures with such a strong contrast to the background.
Got to remember this, I sometimes get this similar problem, I have to manually erase or brush inside just so there wouldn't be any fringes that could be still seen with other color.
For a PERFECT background removal when there's a solid color around the edges, first copy the layer, turn it grayscale, use the tone curve so the gray becomes black, fill every other color with black so you have a nice silhouette of the subject, do white to alpha (or invert colors and do black to alpha), apply it as a mask to the original layer and then paint the edges of the original layer This will extrude the color around the edges while perfectly retaining the exact shape of the subject
You should NEVER use destructive methods to create graphics. The process is messy. The problems created from it are messier. Finally, the end result isn't worth the trouble. History and masks are friends!
Great advice for some art but i feel a logo was a poor choice for a demo, as youd likely be doing final touchups like this for a logo in a vector-based software like illustrate, which doesnt suffer from these issues and scales cleanly (Or fresco which can do both vector and raster but photoshop is what people know)
Ive been doing tricks like this on in game creation tools since the ps3. I could only imagine the power that I would have if I had access to these kinds of tools.
That is definitely a way to do it, however in the case of the picture you had as an example, I usually just use a inside stroke that matches the border color.
I don't do this professionally. I used to just make my own graphics. So my solution to this was always just hand paint the unsightly edges out at like 500x zoom or whatever😅
you can also go to select, modify, and then contract by one or two, if that is too sharp you can also go, select, modify and then feather by about two or three pixels
My teacher in school also taught us to use vectors as lines to get perfect lines at any resolution, you can zoom in forever and it will always be smooth
How the heck to know EVERYTHING about Photoshop! Though every tip you give is GOLD, this is one of the most useful of all time! You are the wisest wizard of all!
It's all about practice, every master was once a student.
He works with adobe
He’s also been using photoshop for years lol cuz I remember watching him back in 2015
if you take a photo shop class (I did in 9th grade) they teach about all of this
then through practice you’ll find about more tricks along the way!
use levels rather than a filter/minimum. you have more control over the positive/negative and mid tones.
additionally, if you have a stronger divergence, you can actually use the background delete tool. great for logos with simple colors
I think an easier solution is just using layer styles and having an alpha mask on grey (or blue would work on your image since it's mostly red) and then just alt clicking the sliders. This is non-destructive too 😊
Yeah this is very much a beginner artist tip in the video. For people who have no idea how to use tools.
People who know their way around their tools have better methods
ohhhh, thank you!
@@rheokalyke367 it's better to post the wrong answer in the video so everybody will share there superior methods and the person making the video can learn with the rest of us.
why not to use the " select color range technique". thats non destructive too also easier
@@BloodSprite-tangenius move 😂
Just select with magic wand, increase the selection border... and invert selection. Done.
This is what I was gonna say, except in recent versions of PS you don't even need that. There's a contract selection zone option.
(Also, you have to invert the selection before expanding, if you do it your way)
Or hold control and contract by 1px
I have custom keyboard shortcuts for both expand/contract so I can do that really quickly
20 years of using Photoshop and I just learned that it’s Contiguous and not Contagious
This should be an automated feature, not a long, obscure process
It’s not usually a long obscure process, this guy just made it really over complicated. Probably cause “click this button” doesn’t make for a full YT short, a lot of other ‘tip’ videos are like this.
Wording might be different in photoshop, but in CSP you just change the area scaling number which takes half a second. Or hell even just doing the tolerance part works lol, the mask is completely unnecessary.
Well the automated feature is to use select all and choose “remove background” from the pop-up toolbar. … Then, ctrl-click the layer and invert the selection. Choose “generate” from the pop up toolbar and type “lemur party” and click Generate. You’re welcome.
Pretty sure in photoshop (haven’t used it in a bit though) there’s a quick action for removing the background and it’s nondestructive
Free programs like firealpaca do already do this for you, it's literally a part of the selection tool itself. You can choose for the selection to be up to positive 3 pixels all the way to -3 pixels, as well as adjusting the tolerance.
Welcome to PS lmao. Other apps they make for video do better jobs than their photo app
Thank you. I’ve been manually removing these pixels for the past few hours before doomscrolling and coming across this video. This is gonna save me sooooooo much time
Aint no way you spend literal hours on that 😭 i feel kinda bad for u
@@yungvarg2301everyone starts somewhere..you must have done some really dumb shit when you're a beginner too. Everyone goes through that phase
@@4536647674 when I spent too long on something I just went to google to learn the fastest way. Me being lazy is what taught me graphic design lol.
Layer > defringe also has some useful options
Yep
Or you just go to select>modify>expend (my photoshop is in frensh so I might have messed up the traduction but you get the idea) and set it to 2 or 3 pixels. It's 3 clicks and 20 time more simple imo
I use this style, it's more smooth
Very helpful ive been learning ps from you for 5 years now and there is no better explanation than yours. Tqvm
I usually just shrink the selection by 2 or 3 pixels. Same result in 3 clicks
This might be silly but why not just color a layer under it black
same problem but black
He wants a transparent background, not one with color
You can also magic select the background, then grow it a few pixels and remove it. Does the same in fewer clicks (in Gimp)
I would do my last pass not as a true delete but as a 1.5-pixel gaussian blur just to try preserving the edge a little more.
In krita you can feather in the selection tool...
Select>Color range is also excellent in this case as it also creates soft selections where there is color contamination (for example around the edges where the pixels may be 50% red 50% white).
The problem is that it is not Contiguous therefore it selects throughout the entire image, so after selecting you may have to deselect some areas of interest that were not suposed to be selected. Or do a preselection with the magic wand, then use Color Range after
Why not make a selection, increase or decrease the selection and then create the mask? Seems a lot simpler.
Not as soft I think, this usually leads to pretty weird looking edges it's an okay trick if your going to be sizing it down after because sizing it down will redo the anti-aliasing a bit. 😅
Its just because it doesnt work on smaller selections as well. If you are for example selecting out text and its a smaller weight you cant realistically give up that much space from your shape. I would rather approach it by masking out the background using layer styles but either his or that work better than uping a selection for more situations. Hope thise helps :)
@@masq_d feather?
Your voice is so soothing. Sounds Like one of those Instructional videos.
how are people asking what program this is??? Photoshop has looked the same for like twenty years lmao
CZcams shorts can be served to anyone, including people who don't edit stuff. It might seem like a question like that would be coming from an editor that only knew about Microsoft paint the whole time, but that is most likely not the case.
My dumbass thought it was Adobe illustrator to be fair I edit photos.
Layer>matting works pretty well too
For a single colour background that isn't in the actual image (I tend to make my backgrounds different colours) I use the colour select tool and feather it.
I just select the object and modify selection (contract) 1or 2 pixels....then reverse selection to delete or mask it
Yup I do the same but it sometimes leaves some ragged surfaces :(
I think expand selection is a good and easy solution or even smoothness is not bad
Same thoughts
Alternate tip, make a layer below that one snd fill with you desired color.. only works sometimes though...
What are you even saying? Putting a colored layer underneath it doesn't magically make your jpg transparent
There is a simpler way. Use the selection tool and click selection tool then select and mask. That will open some opitons that you can play with to make it smoother and better
This is awesome... We learn tricks like this cuz companies like adobe or autodesk are too lazy to just improve the software and fix it.
mate, i use ms paint.
Stap 😆😆
It's amazing how open the software is. This isn't the only option to achieve the same result.
i love how he switches to the most perfect american accent ive ever heard at the last second
Just use wand, tolerance 1, go to select> expand and add a couple px. Or alternatively invert the selection after using the wand and go to select> contract by a couple px.
select > expand and contract. Faster, easier, less steps
This is a great tip. Be aware users this is for rasterized images. Vectors don't need this.
Omg.. I need more video tutorial like this
Good explanation, i love it..
or you can make a new layer underneath the drawing and paint the layer with the color you want, avoiding any type of problem with unwanted pixels
When i first saw your videos, i didn't need them, but now im in a graphic designer class and i do need them-
Gimp. Layer Dropdown->Transparency->Color to Alpha->just set the sliders till you're happy. Can use this for any color background
I was ready to comment, "How do in Gimp?"
Thank you.
This is so useful!!! As a photoshop beginner, i just found out that, alot things take quite alot of steps to achieve...sigh
Why not just reduce selection radius by 1-3 pixels? Or invert selection and use feather before deleting
One of the best videos i have watched today
Thanks buddy
You can select the object with gradient transparency on edges. 10x faster and better result.
1. Increase (or if negative selection, decrease) the selection
or/and
2. feather your edge
both have their uses, taking your time to learn your programs will only help you, start experimenting and learning what tools do
If it's just a mono-coloured decal or design, after getting the mask you can also just fill in the background with that colour instead of doing too much and risk cutting into and losing features of the design. Even if there are a few colours, solid colours are easy enough to deal with.
Dirdling too much with filters can risk you losing certain sharper features of your design, such as sharp points.
I never tried the other option - thanks!!!
Or you can also increase the radius to create a thick white border which I think is pretty cool
You can also select your shape, then invert the selection, generally it doesn't leave fringe
Now this i can imagine is extremely useful im forever removing backgrounds
what about just changing feather after selecting with quick selection?
feather will blur in some cases
@@awooieAh, that explains it... 👍
Sometimes if the image is simple and you don't want to lose those pixels by deleting it shrinking the selection, I'll just add an inner shadow and it darkens the edges.
Only works in some situations. You might even want that inner shadow look.
Usually I just select the background and use selection -> modify -> expand and it works fine for me 😅
I just
delete > undo > change threshold > repeat
until I get a result I'm happy with, since most of the time I don't have pictures with such a strong contrast to the background.
Dude! That was epic... All these years of using photoshop, still learning;0)
I would probably just use illustrator for something like this, then you can actually vectorize the image
IT WAS THAT EASY?!?!? Bro your tips are the best!!! Thank you!!!❤
Got to remember this, I sometimes get this similar problem, I have to manually erase or brush inside just so there wouldn't be any fringes that could be still seen with other color.
Use SVG, it's always high definition regardless of how big it's sized to
For a PERFECT background removal when there's a solid color around the edges, first copy the layer, turn it grayscale, use the tone curve so the gray becomes black, fill every other color with black so you have a nice silhouette of the subject, do white to alpha (or invert colors and do black to alpha), apply it as a mask to the original layer and then paint the edges of the original layer
This will extrude the color around the edges while perfectly retaining the exact shape of the subject
Я всегда использовала только тонкий прозрачный ластик.
Чтобы эти белые пиксели не были видны
You should NEVER use destructive methods to create graphics. The process is messy. The problems created from it are messier. Finally, the end result isn't worth the trouble. History and masks are friends!
12 y/o me manually erasing all of the white outline would have been ecstatic to have seen this.
your tutorial showed up just when i needed it
Or just modify the selection by growing or shrinking it by 1-2 pixels
This tips might be useful back then when i'm at collage
If you go to select and choosebselect colour and eye dropper the background and move the tollerance slider all the way up this also works.
And im still watching these videos even though i have no idea how to do any of that
I NEEDED THIS
THANK YOU
Huh. That's actually super useful to know, thanks for the tip!
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Usually just increasing the magic wand sensitivity works for me. Especially when cutting out monocolor backgrounds.
How about selecting the white background, invert the selection, then go to Selection -> Modify -> Feather -> change the value to 0.2 instead?
Usually just make the selection smaller by a few pixels.
Great advice for some art but i feel a logo was a poor choice for a demo, as youd likely be doing final touchups like this for a logo in a vector-based software like illustrate, which doesnt suffer from these issues and scales cleanly
(Or fresco which can do both vector and raster but photoshop is what people know)
...expand your selection by a few pixels? Can typically be done with the magic wand tool itself
Ive been doing tricks like this on in game creation tools since the ps3. I could only imagine the power that I would have if I had access to these kinds of tools.
I usually just increase tolerance a bit and increase feathering
i also find color select to tolerance of 3 and adding that to the mask works great to
This dude is the absolute goat
Just expand selection, way faster
THANK YOU!!! I WAS WASTING MY TIME USING THE DRAW TOOL!
This guy helped me with math class in 2014 I swear
Beautiful :) Love your channel & your tutorials :)
That is definitely a way to do it, however in the case of the picture you had as an example, I usually just use a inside stroke that matches the border color.
Another way I use is pressing the delete key twice. It deletes the next layer into the selection. (Only if that layer is partially selected though.)
I don't do this professionally. I used to just make my own graphics. So my solution to this was always just hand paint the unsightly edges out at like 500x zoom or whatever😅
Select the negate space and increase the selection size by a certain amount of pixels on GIMP
bro is the master chef of photoshop
Select, round or feather. Grow or shrink. EASY.
Select the background then select expand and type 2 pixels
Selection expand also fine
I just expand my selection by 2 or 3 pixels, works fine
OR layer -> defringe. But you can do that too that’s cool I guess.
Your voice is so good 😊
you can also go to select, modify, and then contract by one or two, if that is too sharp you can also go, select, modify and then feather by about two or three pixels
I have been fighting with this for so long!! I hate going and trying to fill in those pixels ❤ thank you!!
When your perfectionist soul is roaring
this problem can be avoided entirely by drawing on a separate layer, but what a strange workaround
Or you could do all of that at once by just adjusting the tolerance after making your selection with the magic wand tool.
I love your skills!
My teacher in school also taught us to use vectors as lines to get perfect lines at any resolution, you can zoom in forever and it will always be smooth
Reduce the selection by 1 or 2 pixels, usually does the trick🤷🏼♀️
or just adjust the threshold of the fill erase tool
I NEEDED THIS!! THANK YOU❤️❤️
Pen tool Is one of the best for removing object
its easiest select layer>matting>defringe
Or just grow thr selection by one that usually works