Hands-on Tutorial

Intermediate

1 min

How to replace a photo background

Put your subject in a new environment by replacing the original background with a new image.

Start with core concepts

Understand how to put basic skills together to achieve a popular outcome: replacing a dull background.

What you'll learn

Make a foreground selection

Select the main subject in an image automatically with the Select Subject command.

Mask a selection

Turn the selection into a layer mask.

Import a new background image

Add a new image to the Layers panel, and rearrange the new layer in the layer stack.


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