Cutting out a part of a picture

[Melissa McGrath]

Does anyone know how I can cut out a part of a picture (for example, the people in a picture with a background), but keep it in the same picture so that I can blur the background or add other pictures to the original picture? I'd also like to be able to take that cut out part of the picture and move it to another picture. Thank you.

[AK]

If I understand what you wish to do, one way to do it is to carefully select
around the area (people) you wish to save, and then you have a couple of
choices. One is then to use the cut function, and then paste that into the
new picture with the new background you want, or create a new layer with
just the selcted area, blur or change the original layer, and then merge
them together.


"Melissa McGrath" <Melissa1682@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know how I can cut out a part of a picture (for example, the

people in a picture with a background), but keep it in the same picture so
that I can blur the background or add other pictures to the original
picture? I'd also like to be able to take that cut out part of the picture
and move it to another picture. Thank you.

[Kenneth Liffmann]

Melissa,
Tell us a little about your familiarity with the tools in PE so that we may craft a response appropriate to your request. For example, are you familiar with the selection tools, layers, etc.?
Ken

[Byron Gale]

Melissa,

These are the general steps I would take to approach the task:

- roughly lasso the general area you wish to keep.

- zoom into the selection

- with the selection brush in mask mode, finish fine-tuning the selection (the pink overlaid area is NOT selected)

- Layer->New->Layer via Copy puts just the selected part onto a new layer. You can use this to put new backgrounds, or as a selection template for your other image, as you proceed.

I have no doubt that, in not too much longer, someone else (with oodles more experience than I) will be along with additional help.

Elements has a huge variety of tools, which can be used in (seemingly) limitless order to accomplish the same task in many ways.

Byron