1. Photoshop Silhouettes By Susan Rigg Sit still for a quick Silhouette

2. Open Photoshop Elements 11 andchoose Photo Editor 3. Your opening work space will look like this. You need to open the picture you want to make your creation from.You can chooseopen and findyour picture in a You also canfiledrop thepicturedirectly onthe pagefrom the fileif you have itopen. 4. Now you are ready to removebackground color. 5. Removing background !Using the magic wandselect the backgroundarea. It will have antsNow push the deleterunning around it. If it button and remove theselects your subject try background area.again. If all of it is not If you have anyselected you can background area left,reselect the other areas follow the same steps 6. Once you have removed all color youmay need to clean it up with theeraser. Choose select all and ants will run around the border of the picture. Shortcut crtl ANow choosethe eraser anderase any straybackgroundcolor you see. If you want to change the size of the block eraser you can slide the size button. 7. How to fill in the silhouette with black.Use your magic wand again andNow choose select again. Chooseselect the white background. Theinverse, and the ants will run aroundants should run around the outside ofyou image only.the picture and around yoursilhouette! 8. Filling your silhouette with black!Choose the Now go to the picturepaint bucket to and click and it willfill the picture fill black!with black.If you see any whiteChoose thespots, you can trytop squareclicking on them withand a color the bucket orselector will painting them withappear. You the brush.then chooseblack for youcolor. 9. Removing the shouldersChoose the eraser blockand remove theYou now have a finishedshoulders or areassilhouette! You canbelow the head. print! 10. Reverse the image if you want towrite on the inside.Use you magic wandand select the image. Choose select at the top and choose inverse.Fill the image whiteusing the paint bucket.Select and inverse atthe top again. Nowusing the paint bucketfill the outside withblack.Print and write poetry or anything inside thesilhouette!