How to Change the Background (Photo Background) in Photoshop

This guide explains how to change the Background (Photo Background) in Photoshop, with clear steps, practical tips, and important checks before you begin.

1. Preparation

To change the Background in Photoshop we need:

• The original image needs replacing background
• Background image we need to replace

2. Conduct a background change in Photoshop

Step 1: First we open the image we want to change the background in Photoshop and press Ctrl + L to unlock the image into a layer .

Then select the Magic Wand Tool (W).

Step 2: You proceed Click on the outermost point on the subject, the object to split the ground and proceed to move the mouse around the subject and object.

Step 3: When you move the mouse around the subject, the object will have a dashed effect surrounding the subject and object . So you have completed the process of separating the subject from the image.

Step 4: After the object, the object has been selected, press Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V to create a new layer for the object we have just separated.

Now we will have Layer 0 as the original image. Layer 1 is the subject image, the object has been separated from the background.

Step 5: Now you select Layer 1 and you need to press Ctrl + C again to Copy Layer 1 .

Step 6: After you have copied the subject, the object needs to change the background, then you open the background image you want to pair in Photoshop.

To open the image During work you press Ctrl + O .

Step 7: Once you've opened the background image you want to pair, you press Ctrl + V to paste the subject, the object we have in Layer 1 has just split the background here.

Step 8: Due to the difference in resolution and size of the image to be separated background and background image, it will deviate a lot. You press Ctrl + T to open Free Transform . You can resize and move the subject at will. After the move is complete you press Enter to lock.

Finally, we have the following result:

Thus, the Software Tips have shown you How to change the background (background image) in Photoshop most beautiful and effective. Good luck!