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Information for using Photoshop Elements. 'I am thrilled to find such useful and easy-to-understand 'Watching your tutorials even about things that I think I know I ALWAYS learn something new. Tutorials sites, but yours is by far the clearest and easiest to 'Just a note to say I LOVE your site! There seem to be a few PS Elements If you have any questions or need more clarification use the add your own comments link below and let me know what you need help with. Check out the Magic Extractor video to actually see it being done.īetween studying these steps and watching the video hopefully you can get the results you want. That is a rough outline of the basic steps.

Drag your Extracted photo over the image of the new background and release the mouse button to place it in the new photo as a new Layer.

Leave that photo open and also open your new background image in Elements.

Touch-up as necessary using the Add To and Remove From tools.

Click the Preview Button and check it out.

Paint over the parts you want gone with the Background Brush.

Paint over the part you want to keep with the Foreground Brush.

Go up to the Image menu and choose Magic Extractor….

I will list the basic steps and then give you a link to a video that shows the process.

Once you have the object extracted from the original background you can drag it onto a new image. The Magic Extractor Tool does a good job of removing objects from their background. With that technique you don't really insert a new background but you remove the object from the photo and place it over a new background.

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