I'm going to Add a lot here to get the subject completely selected. So you can see it really didn't do a very good job on a lot of things. Then I'm going to select the Quick Selection Tool and I'm going to go in and better refine things. I'm going to use Control S to select this subject. So let's try this with another example here. Then I could just press the Delete key and it removes the background. Use Select Subject and then use Quick Selection to refine things to get it as good as you possibly can. So I could better refine it before I do the delete. I'm going to add to the selection here and remove from the selection in other places to get more of what I want. Or, I could now refine using that same Quick Selection as before. Now we can actually delete the background if we wanted to by going to Edit and then Invert Selection, Shift Command i, and now we have the background selected. The other thing is it's not going to delete anything. One, it is going to select the subject not the background. So this is going to do the opposite in two different ways. Or I'm going to Undo here and instead use that Select Subject option. We can select that separately and then create a more refined result. It probably could have taken a little bit more of that off. Notice, for instance it didn't quite do a great job here at the top. Now while this is the quickest way to do it, no doubt, but it's not the best. So let's try Shift Delete and you could see it's going to analyze the image and it's going to remove the background. There's also a button here for Remove Background as well. You can go to Edit, Remove Background or Shift Delete or Control S for Select Subject. Now I mentioned that there is an even better way to do this because Pixelmator Pro has two tools that are basically the opposites of the same thing. Now with the background selected I can simply use the Delete key to remove it. Now I want to go through the entire outline of the subject to see if there are any other places where I can make the selection a bit better. I can continue to refine to get it as close to the edge of the subject as I want. So I can use Shift to add to the selection and Option to remove from the selection if I want. You could see I could select and drag to select a little bit more of that area. I'm going to use the Option key and get the minus in there. Here's an area that I want to remove from the selection. You could always Undo if you grabbed a little bit too much. Now I could add more refined little areas there. Now the circle is fairly big so let's decrease the brush size to something much smaller, like 20%. So I click here and you could see it adds that section. Now if I wanted to include more things in the background all I need to do is hold the Shift key down and you could see I get that circle and a plus in the middle of it. The best way to refine is to zoom in, you could use this or on the trackpad you could just use two fingers, and you get a closer look and see how well it did. Then I release the trackpad or mouse and you could see it's got my selection here. and continue to add parts until I have the entire background. But if I click it and drag it will continue to add to the selection. But I'm going to show you how to use it anyway and you'll find out why later. Now while this is a great tool for the job it's not the best one. This will allow you to fairly quickly select the subject or the background. If you go here you'll see Quick Selection. But there are better tools for doing this. It's really neat and it could be used for this. Instead you may want to go and use the Magnetic Selection Tool which will try to find the edge and kind of cling to it. Then you've got this tool here which will allow you to do a Free Selection so you can carefully draw the outline between the background and the subject. Here you've got the General Selection Tool and this will allow you to select rectangles and circles. Now Pixelmator has a ton of different tools that will allow you to select either just the background or just the subject. It's a very neutral solid color behind a subject. So let's start off here with a really simple example. Maybe you want to put the subject on a different background or maybe you want to take the background and blur it a little but not blur the subject. Maybe you just want to take the background away completely. So a common thing you may want to do with a photo is remove the background from it. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let me show you how to remove the background from a photo using Pixelmator Pro on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.
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