How to Make Background Transparent in Photoshop (In 3 Seconds)

There several methods and tools have to remove the background of the  image. Pen Tool, Background eraser tool and  Quick selection are popular tools used for it. In this article you can learn How to Make background Transparent In Photoshop with a single click.

Pen Tool absolutely perfect tool but it takes more time to select. As well as you cant deal with complex edges like hairs through the pen tool.

Background Eraser  and Quick selection are also time saving tools when considering the pen tool but sometimes you have to struggle to create a selection.

Don’t waste your precious time by using the above tool for every photo.Photoshop has the ability to recognize your image and remove the background in a few seconds.

Let’s see how it works.

Select the Subject

You can remove the background in a single click using this method.perfectly it works on plain background. Photoshop automatically identifies the subject of the image and makes  the selection.

1 Step

Open you image through Photoshop 

2 Step

Click ‘Select’ on top menu bar

3 Step

Click ‘Subject’. Photoshop will load and automatically select the subject (person) of the image.

4 Step

Create a Mask on the image.

Sometimes selection needs a little bit of refinement. At that time you can use quick selection or background Eraser Tool.

Color Range

This is another super cool tool to remove background. This tool works based on colors. If you want to remove blue background, just click the color range tool. Even complex edges like hairs also perfectly respond to this tool

1 Step

Open you image through Photoshop 

2 Step

Click ‘Select’ on top menu bar

3 Step

Click ‘Color Range’. Color range menu will popup.

4 Step

Make sure the selection preview is none.

Mark the checkbox to make invert

Now you can see a live preview of your image with black and white colors. Keep mind all of the subject should be white and and the background should be black.

You can adjust Fuzziness according to image colours.

5 Step

Create a Mask on the image.

Final Output