Photoshop Tutorial – Pen Tool Background Removal

Isolating items with clarity and finesse isn’t solely a fine-art pursuit in Photoshop, professional background removal is a common undertaking in the world of Digital Design. As it is a fundamental process, it’s well worth employing the best technique possible; and in my humble opinion, the Pen Tool is king. Due to it’s bezier nature, it’s a tricky one to get to grips with, but once learnt, becomes...

Photoshop Tutorial – Become a Master of the Pen Tool in Under 30 Minutes

Final Image This is the final image that we’ll be creating. Step 1 Download this image http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1104824 Don’t think you’ve already made it as we will be tracing over the image! Open the image in Photoshop and re-size it to what you want. I re-sized mine to 1800 px by 2546 px. I lowered the opacity of the penguin image to 50% as it’s much easier to see your paths and curves your creating. To...