How do you change the background of a photo with adobe photoshop?

The best way would be to use your pen tool and outline the whole background you want to take out- zoom in to about 200% for outlining. In your paths pallette click on the path you just created and make a selection with a .5 feather. go back to your layers pallette and click on your layer. click on the mask button at the bottom of the layers pallette- its the rectangle with the circle in the middle. this will make the area you selected become masked out and it will be transparent. then choose the image you do want for the background- select, copy, and paste the image into your existing photo and put the new image layer under the first one. sounds complicated but its really not, and it doesn't take long. the longest part is the pathing which at first is difficult, but once you get the hang of it, its a piece of cake. If you need any more help with this please let me know- i do this kind of stuff for a living.





ps- using the eraser tool usually does not work well- your edges will look funky and your background will probably look fake. when you use the paths and masks- the part of the image you masked is only hidden so u can bring it back if you want using the brush tool. with the eraser it is gone forever so that is another reason i never use it.How do you change the background of a photo with adobe photoshop?
Yeah I would go with what This_girl saidHow do you change the background of a photo with adobe photoshop?
this girl is....has it right. That's what I would do. Vote for her.
you need to use the ERASER tool to erase the background of the photo, then create a new layer at the bottom layer and put/fill the layer that you want.

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