By Elizabeth LePage  ·  May 13th, 2011

This video walks you through the options found in the Refine Edge command.

By Liz Ness  ·  April 25th, 2011

Taking a subject from one photo and adding it to a new background is easy; making it believable is another story. In this advanced tutorial, Liz shows you how to create a great composite image by paying attention to the little details.

By Liz Ness  ·  April 25th, 2011

This companion piece to Liz Ness’ “Composite Master Class,” from the May/June issue, shows Liz’s method for creating the quick extraction of a subject from a background.

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  February 16th, 2011

Matt shows a few tricks for removing people or objects from a background using the Magic Extractor tool, as well as some tips for cleaning up selections.

By P.E.T. Staff  ·  January 5th, 2011

50 of our favorite time-saving tricks to help you speed through everyday tasks like managing layers, styling text, setting up new documents, drawing selections, and more.

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  July 15th, 2010

You don’t have to settle for dull, gray skies. Simply borrow a blue sky from another shot.

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  January 1st, 2010

Getting comfortable selecting parts of your image is the launching pad for all sort of editing magic. Follow along with Mike as he walks you through all the different Selection tools available in Elements.

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  January 1st, 2010

Continue to learn the ins and outs of selecting with these more advanced Selection tools.

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  January 1st, 2010

Building on the two earlier Selection videos, Mike shows you the more fine details of using Selection tools in your images.

By Dave Cross  ·  December 21st, 2009

Dave shows you how to take the best of two images and combine them into one great shot!

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  November 10th, 2009

Have you ever needed a selection that uses a non-traditional geometric shape? Something other than a standard rectangle or oval created with one of the Marquee tools? You can use any of the shape tools to generate a selection in that shape. Here’s how, along with just one possible project.

By Diana Day  ·  May 5th, 2009

Photoshop Elements provides several selection tools, all of which will do an effective job of selecting a subject to extract it from the background. My favorite approach, although it may seem unconventional to some users, is to use the Polygonal Lasso tool.

By Dave Cross  ·  March 23rd, 2009

Dave shows you a quick and not so dirty way to select a subject with lots of hair.

By Jeff Carlson  ·  November 5th, 2008

While there are many ways to select pixels, let’s start with the original selection tool: the Lasso.

By Corey Barker  ·  December 30th, 2007

Corey introduces the Quick Selection Tool that was introduced with Elements 6.0.

By Corey Barker  ·  July 15th, 2007

Corey shows you how to jazz up a photo with some creative selection techniques and blending modes.

By Dave Cross  ·  June 2nd, 2006

Create a fun special effect from making several selections.

By Dave Cross  ·  April 28th, 2006

Dave shows you how to make more difficult selections.

By Dave Cross  ·  February 18th, 2006

It can often be very challenging to select an object in a photo without investing a whole lot of time and effort. In this tutorial we’ll see how to combine a couple of selection tools, most importantly the Selection Brush, to make the job a little easier.

By Dave Cross  ·  February 18th, 2006

Actually, this really isn’t a second part to give you more hints on making selection, it’s really a follow-up to the last article that showed how to select an object using multiple tools. In this article we’re going to assume…