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This tutorial covers the subject of cutting out an object from a fussy background with the polygonal lasso tool and then making that object into something special. We also introduce you to layers and explain simply how they work

This video runs for 24 minutes and will be great for those who have some difficulty cutting out tricky subjects and it is also perfect as a layers introduction. The techniques we use here are simple yet effective and the end result speaks for itself. Cutting out tricky subjects is one of those problems that haunts many digital photographers, but it's not difficult once you know the tricks to this and learn how. We use the polygonal selection tool, which is an odd choice seeing at that selection tool only makes selections in straight lines.

We don't let a straight line selection tool stop us and we use the polygonal lasso tool to cut around curves easily. Then, once we have our object cut out we turn to our layers palette to make an image with impact.

You can download a slide show demo of what we will achieve in this tutorial and see the end result before you buy.

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Take a look at the starting image below. As you can see the soldier is well locked into the background, but we can coax him away from that fussy backdrop.

The image we create below is called "Drummed Out" However, it's not this particular image that is important. The important thing we need to keep in mind is the techniques which we can apply in other images and in other ways.