Step 3: Add A Solid Color Fill Layer Below The New Layer
Now that we have the main subject on its own layer, we're going to hide the background from view and replace it with a solid color. First, click on the Background layer to select it. Then, with the Background layer selected, click on the New Fill Or Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette:
Photoshop Tutorials: Click the New Fill Or Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette.
We want a solid color behind the main subject, so select Solid Color from the top of the list that appears:
Photoshop Tutorials: Select "Solid Color" from the top of the list.
This brings up Photoshop's Color Picker:
Photoshop Tutorials: Photoshop's Color Picker.
Go ahead and choose any color you want right now for the background. It doesn't matter which color you pick because, as we'll see later, you can always go back and choose a different color any time you want. Click OK when you've chosen a color.
Here's my image with my solid colored background:
Photoshop Tutorials: The main subject now on a solid colored background.
And I can now see in my Layers palette that I have a solid color fill layer between my Background layer and the Threshold layer:
Photoshop Tutorials: Photoshop's Layers palette showing the solid color fill layer between the Background and Threshold layers.
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