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This is my usual process for remove stuff from photos-
* go to image/adjustments/levels (or just press ctrl+L)
* adjust to taste, but typically bring the black and white sliders in (usually want to cut out the flat spots in the graph on either edge + a tiny bit more), and i prefer to slide the gray slider left to brighten the image (that's my own style)
* go to select/color range (if you've never used this tool before you may need to play with it for a bit first).
* first turn the fuzziness down to zero, then hold shift (look for a little + on your cursor) and click'n scribble inside the subject you want to cut out of the image. Be careful you don't go outside the lines at all.
* slowly turn up the fuzziness to soften the edge of your selection. If anything outside the desired part of the image shows up as grey AT ALL (that inludes dark DARK grey, anything besides black) then you've turned it up too high. But mostly you'll want to focus on everything right around the border of your subject. Things farther out can more easilly be removed with the lasso tool.
* once you have your selection, use the lasso tool with shift held and trace just inside the inner part of your current selection to select stray or partially selected pixels that don't show on screen (less than 50% selected).
* repeat around the ouside with the alt key held down to remove the unwanted 50%ers (make sure you use a horseshoe shape around your subject, don't simply draw a circle or you'll just deselect everything you have).
I've found that with small adjustment here and there that this method works the best for me 9 times out of 10 when dealing with photographs. Of course, in photoshop there's 100 other ways to acomplish anything, this is just mine.
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