Pen Tool (Photoshop) – Part 3

Using Pen Tool for removing Background:

1. Open (File -> Open or Ctrl+O on keyboard or Double click any ware on empty place of Photoshop) the image which you want to remove background.
2. Duplicate it by right clicking on title bar of the image or use Image menu-> Duplicate option.
3. Close the original image. Save the Duplicated image with desired name and keep it open to start work.
4. Double click or Alt+Double click on Background layer in layers palette to convert Background layer into normal layer. It is useful to make the image with transparent background.
5. Now select Pen tool on tool bar or press ‘P’ on keyboard to switch Pen tool.
6. With Pen tool click the starting point on right side of the object and start placing smooth and corner points around the object and cover the background area. Bring the path to the starting point and click on starting point to close the path.
7. To adjust any point with Pen tool, Ctrl+Click on path to select and visible anchor points of the path. If you click the path with Ctrl key on keyboard, the Pen tool converts into Direct Selection tool. So, we can adjust any anchor point (moving anchor points near to the edge of the object).
8. If you want any corner anchor point to convert into smooth anchor point or smooth point to corner point press Alt key on keyboard and click on anchor point.
9. After adjusting path nearer to objects border, press Ctrl+Enter to convert path into selection. If you want to inverse selection press Ctrl+I.
10. Now delete the selected background.
11. Create new layer behind object layer by Ctrl+Click on Create New layer button on bottom of the layers palette to check whether background deleted completely or not.
12. Fill color in newly created layer by pressing Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+Backspace key on keyboard. Now we can see some small background parts remaining. To clean the image use Eraser tool.