

Drag from inside the bounding box to move the subject.

Drag a corner handle of the bounding box to make the subject smaller or bigger.A bounding box with handles appears around the subject. With the subject layer still selected in the second image, press Command+T (MacOS) or Control+T (Windows).In the Layers panel of the second image, there is a new layer containing the subject and its layer mask. Keeping your mouse pressed down, drag from the Layers panel of the first image to the tab of the second image and then into the document window of the second image. Copy the masked layer into the second image as follows: In the Layers panel of the first image, click and hold an empty part of the layer that contains the subject and layer mask.Each of the open images has its own tab at the top of the document window. Or you could use the following method to copy the isolated subject to another image, retaining the layer mask for editing flexibility. You could add a new background to this image on a layer below the isolated subject. The black hides the area that was not selected. On the layer mask, there is white where there was a selection (the subject) and black where there was no selection (the background). With the selection active, click the Add layer mask button in the Layers panel.When you add a layer mask with a selection active, the layer mask automatically contains white where there was a selection and black where there was no selection. Choose Select > Invert, so the subject is selected instead of the background.To subtract from the selection, Option-click (MacOS) or Alt-click (Windows). To add to the selection if necessary, Shift-click in the image. Click the image background to select it.Select the Magic Wand tool in the Toolbar and check Contiguous in the Options bar.The Magic Wand tool is useful for selecting a solid color background. If the image has a solid color background, it may be easier to select the background than the subject. Start by creating a selection using any selection method. This is useful when you want to isolate a complex subject with the precision of a selection and the flexibility of a layer mask. You can create a layer mask based on a selection.
