This document provides instructions for creating a silhouette in Photoshop Elements 11 by removing the background color from a photo and filling the remaining silhouette with black. The key steps are: 1) Open a photo in Photoshop Elements and use the magic wand tool to select the background area. 2) Press delete to remove the background color. Use the eraser tool to clean up any remaining color. 3) Select the white silhouette and fill it with black using the paint bucket tool. 4) The finished silhouette can then be printed or modified further, such as filling the inside with white to write on.

1. Photoshop Silhouettes
By Susan Rigg
Sit still for a quick Silhouette

2. Open Photoshop Elements 11 and
choose Photo Editor

3. Your opening work space will look
like this. You need to open the
picture you want to make your
creation from.
You can choose
open and find
your picture in a You also can
file drop the
picture
directly on
the page
from the file
if you have it
open.

4. Now you are ready to remove
background color.

5. Removing background !
Using the magic wand
select the background
area. It will have ants Now push the delete
running around it. If it button and remove the
selects your subject try background area.
again. If all of it is not If you have any
selected you can background area left,
reselect the other areas follow the same steps

6. Once you have removed all color you
may need to clean it up with the
eraser.
Choose select
all and ants
will run around
the border of
the picture.
Shortcut crtl A
Now choose
the eraser and
erase any stray
background
color you see.
If you want to change the
size of the block eraser you
can slide the size button.

7. How to fill in the silhouette with black.
Use your magic wand again and
Now choose select again. Choose
select the white background. The
inverse, and the ants will run around
ants should run around the outside of
you image only.
the picture and around your
silhouette!

8. Filling your silhouette with black!
Choose the
Now go to the picture
paint bucket to
and click and it will
fill the picture
fill black!
with black.
If you see any white
Choose the spots, you can try
top square clicking on them with
and a color the bucket or
selector will painting them with
appear. You the brush.
then choose
black for you
color.

9. Removing the shoulders
Choose the eraser block
and remove the You now have a finished
shoulders or areas silhouette! You can
below the head. print!

10. Reverse the image if you want to
write on the inside.
Use you magic wand
and select the image.
Choose select at the
top and choose
inverse.
Fill the image white
using the paint bucket.
Select and inverse at
the top again. Now
using the paint bucket
fill the outside with
black.
Print and write poetry or anything inside the
silhouette!