![]() If I’d had more time, I’d have probably gone to work with the pen tool, but that’s just my personal preference. How you do this will be down to personal preference and the image that you’re working with, but making a selection by color or using the Magnetic Lasso are two fairly easy techniques, though I’ll quickly describe the technique that I used. You need to make a selection around the area that you want isolate and there are many different ways to achieve this. You can see in this step how the image looked prior to that edit. Though it won’t be so obvious at this size, it was a quick and rather rough job, though the biggest giveaway is probably the fact I just duplicated the main sunflower. You may have already noticed that the main image at the start of this page has had an extra sunflower added to it. In this tutorial, I’ll give you a brief introduction to using layer masks. Layer masks get around this problem by hiding pixels from view, without deleting them completely, so that you can make them visible again later if required. You could just erase areas, but this permanently removes pixels and you have no way of making these pixels visible again if you later find that you’ve erased more than you should have. When you form composite images with multiple layers, you generally need to remove areas of a layer to allow layers below to show through. Photoshop’s layer masks are a very powerful feature of layers that allow you make non-destructive edits to individual layers. ![]() You can also find the articles that have already been published by visiting the Photo Editing 101 course page. If you want to make sure that you don’t miss future articles you can subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Twitter, Google+, or Facebook. If you’re just getting started with Photoshop or photo editing, or if you’re looking to improve your skills in this area, this series will provide an excellent foundation. This series will cover all of the basics of using Photoshop for editing photos. This article is part of our series Photo Editing 101 by Ian Pullen.
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