Cut Out Payment Object For Free

All right, so I'm just in the middle of recording a brand new, full length video tutorial to go on to my website. Part of that tutorial is where I actually cut out the tree that you can see on screen now and put it into a new environment. As it's a really quick way to do it, quick technique, I thought I'd just do that as a short video for you this week. How do I go about cutting it out? Simply, I would use for something like this, the Select and I'd go to Color Range. The contrast between the actual tree and the sky should make this really really simple. There's just a couple of extra little things in there that I want to show you. If you haven't used it before the Color Range basically works by whenever we bring up the dialogue box we put our cursor into our picture and anywhere that we click the color underneath it is what we're going to select. Photoshop will look at the color you click on top of and it will say, "What else in that picture has a similar color?" You'll see that show up in the preview, just over here on the right hand side you can see that some areas are white, some areas are black. Basically wherever you click down that color and the colors just either side of it are what's been selected and showing up as white in the preview. What I want to do is I want to get the tree out of this scene here. I'm going to click down on some of the leaves and I can also hold down my shift key and then click and drag across the tree to pick up a few more leaves in there that have got a slightly different color to them and tint. I can also use this thing here called the Fuzziness Slider. I don't know why they called it fuzziness, maybe range would be a better name for it, but basically what this means is wherever we click down we can then go to the right hand side to tell Photoshop to choose more colors either side of where we clicked, or we can take it to the left to say choose less colors than where we actually clicked on top of. I'm going to take it a little bit to the right, and you can see that the preview here is getting more and more white over that tree area. There's so far when I go with it, if I go too far you can probably see on your screen how the actual sky area is starting to go a little bit funky. Let's just bring that back a touch to somewhere like that. Once you've done that you click 'Okay', Photoshop throws a right hissy fit and you can see all the marching ants going all over the place. Now, we only want the tree, I don't want all this bottom bit with all the grass and these smaller trees here selected. I'm just going to get my Lasso tool, hold down my Alt key, so that's going to take away from the selection and I'm just going to drag very very rough outline into the sky, down around the trunk, and then over to the right hand side, underneath, and all the way back up. That now has taken all those other areas that have been selected out, so the only ones really around the tree. To cut the tree off the background, now that...