Adobe has not been able to help me via phone support. Step 1: Start a new project and drag the image to the clipboard.To eliminate the background of a picture from a photo, you will have to produce an accurate shape around the region of the photo you want to keep. In this image, we will just keep the ice cream and remove the background. I edit hundreds of photos every day and I am about to have a heart attack from the stress of this issue. We will use the above image as an example. I have resorted to using the polygonal lasso tool which is painstakingly slow for tracing curved objects. We break down all of the keyboard shortcuts you’ll need to master this tool and show you how Paths work in Photoshop. I've updated Photoshop CC to the most recent version and it has not solved my problem. Learn to use the Pen Tool and start making perfect selections in Photoshop If it has a hard edge, straight lines, and smooth curves, the Pen Tool is the ideal tool for cutting out an object. To activate this tool, simply click it in the Tools. Note that the combination of the Command+Option/ Control+Alt keys can also be used to switch the pen tool to the path selection tool. I do not believe it is an issue with the computer hardware, as I have had the problem on two different iMacs with the same configuration. The regular Lasso tool lets you draw a selection completely freeform as if you were drawing with a pencil. Once all the points have been active, you can use the path selection tool to reposition a path, or use the keyboard arrow keys to nudge the path position. If I ignore the lag and continue to place new points with the pen tool, the points will appear all out of the order I placed them in and with strange curves in between them. It was released in June 2015 with the Photoshop latest features at that time. With the Background Eraser Tool selected, you’ll notice three little buttons in the Options Bar at the top of. Next, select the Background Color from the Toolbar and select the image’s background color using the Color Picker in the pop up dialog box.
I must wait 1-3 seconds for a point to appear, sometimes the point never appears. The version marked the 25 th anniversary of Adobe Photoshop. Select the Background Eraser Tool from the Toolbar. The pen tool is unacceptable laggy since I updated Photoshop CC the the most recent version.