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The two major things for people want to do, when learning photoshop is retouching and changing backgrounds. But as beginners, most people struggle to navigate around the plethora of tools available and to select their subjects perfectly. So here are five easy yet unpopular methods beginners can use to remove backgrounds from your images.   1. Sky Selection Method Import your image to Photoshop Duplicate the layer by hitting CTRL + J Select > Sky Hit Mask Icon Select the Mask icon beside your layer and hit CTRL + I (in case you want to mask the inverse of it) This will automatically select the sky and remove  2. Subject Selection Method Import your image to Photoshop Duplicate the layer by hitting CTRL + J Select > Subject Hit Mask Icon   3. Background Eraser Tool Import your image to Photoshop Duplicate the layer by hitting CTRL + J Select Background Eraser Tool (batched with the eraser tool)      This will sample only the initia...

Nude photography is a genre of photography that has been controversial for decades. However, it is one of the most popular genres of photography due to its inherent viral nature. Nude photography is any photograph that features a nude, seminude, or subject image that is suggestive of nudity. It is done for various purposes like education, commercial, artistic creations, and more. Nude photography includes many sub-genres like erotic, glamour, contemporary, etc. If you are a beginner at nude photography, here are seven resources made by industry leaders to set you up for success. 1. Nude Art Photography Posing Basics Credits: Dan Hecho Dan Hecho is an award-winning photographer with more than a decade of experience in teaching. This basic course by Dan Hecho has 70+ minutes of professional training videos [NSFW] on nude art photography. It teaches you: how to work with and manage models, the basic principles of hand and body positioning, and basic instruments for creating effective body...

Five powerful ancillary software options to help you create super-realistic composites. Saving you long hours of grunt work. Photoshop is the most popular software people use to do composites. As a photographer you know, how time-consuming of a process it is to create a composite that doesn’t become a meme material. Photoshop fail meme image Although this may be an extreme example. Everybody starts from here on our design journey. Not knowing how to use masks, layers, or different blend modes flawlessly.   When working on composites: Removing a subject from its background, Matching images to a single cohesive color tone, and Using the right blur effects and sharpness to give the final image a raw look are a few menial tasks that beginners find difficult to do when starting out. It requires the utilization of various tools & techniques that beginners may not be familiar with. For pros, these tasks may be time-consuming as it has to be done on a subjective basis for e...