How To Cut Your Subject Out Of A Background

This video tutorial by Aaron Nace from Phlearn will teach you how to cut a subject out of a (white) background, refine edges and even add the all important shadow so that you are left with a layer you can easily work with and combine into any image you want.

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Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.