Select subject or object in your images

Select the Object Selection   tool from the Tools panel.

Hover over the image to automatically select the desired object or region. 

• Rectangle: Drag the pointer to define a rectangular region around the object or region.
• Lasso: Draw a rough lasso outside the object's boundary or region.

Select from these options:

• New selection: This is the default option if nothing is selected. After making the initial selection, the option changes automatically to Add to selection.
• Add to selection: Select this option from the options bar, then hover over or draw a new rectangle or a lasso around the missing region. Repeat this process for all the missing regions you want to add to the selection.
• Subtract from selection: Select this option from the options bar, then hover over or draw a rectangle or lasso around the boundary of the region you want to subtract from the selection. It's particularly useful when removing the background regions inside the current object selection.  
• Intersect with selection: Select this option if you want to keep only the areas where two or more selections overlap. 

Use these options to let Photoshop analyze all visible layers and help make clean selections. 

• Sample All Layers: Creates a selection based on all layers instead of just the currently selected layer.
• Hard Edge: Enables hard edges on the selection boundary.
  

Select Select Subject from the options bar. 

Select Add to selection and Subtract from selection to refine the initial selection.

Select Select and Mask and use the options in the Properties panel that appears to further refine the selection. 

Select Settings > Image Processing (macOS) / Edit > Preferences > Image Processing (Windows) from the Photoshop main menu.

From the Preferences dialog box, select Cloud (Detailed results) from the Select Subject and Remove Background dropdown list. 

Select the Quick Selection   tool from the Tools panel. 

In the options bar, choose one of the selection modes to refine your selection:

• New selection (default)
• Add to selection
• Subtract from selection.

Select the brush pop-up menu in the options bar to change the brush tip size. Enter the pixel size or drag the slider.

Select the Size drop-down menu to change brush tip sensitivity, or make it sensitive to pen pressure or stylus wheel.

Check these options as needed:

• Sample All Layers: Creates a selection based on all layers instead of just the currently selected layer.
• Enhance Edge: Automatically improves the edges by making them smoother and more refined.

Paint over the area you want to select and the tool expands the selection as you go, automatically following the edges of shapes in the image for a more precise selection.

Select Select and Mask to further adjust the selection boundary. 

Select the Magic Wand   tool from the Tools panel.

In the options bar, choose one of the selection modes to refine your selection:

• Add to selection
• Subtract from selection
• Intersect with selection

The tool's pointer changes depending on the option selected.

Adjust these settings in the options bar:

• Sample size: Controls how much the image is sampled and affects the sensitivity of the tool when selecting pixels of similar color.
• Tolerance: Determines the color range of selected pixels. Enter a value in pixels, ranging from 0 to 255. A low value selects fewer colors and a higher value selects a broader range of colors.
• Anti-alias: Creates a smoother-edged selection.
• Contiguous: Selects only adjacent areas using the same colors. Otherwise, all pixels in the entire image using the same colors are selected.
• Sample All Layers: Selects colors using data from all the visible layers. Otherwise, only colors from the active layer are selected.

Select the color area in your image to choose pixels.

If Contiguous is enabled, only adjacent pixels within the tolerance are selected.

If disabled, all pixels within the tolerance range throughout the image are selected.

Select Select and Mask to refine the selection boundary or view the selection as a mask.