Editing Process

To begin my editing process, I started off by cutting out my subject in Photoshop so that it would enable me to, later on, be able to put different effects behind my them and onto my stop-motion animation.

To achieve this, I firstly selected the 'polygon lasso' tool in the left-hand-side tool bar and then proceeded to cut around my subject using this; I found it easiest to cut out 'Sonny' when I had zoomed in to at least 300% as it made for a better finish and look when you had zoomed back out because I had been more precise. As you can see from the print screen above, there is a grey line forming around the outside of my subject, this is me using the tool to cut around her.

After this, and when I had cut all the way around her, I joined my finishing line up to the one which I had started on and it gave a dotted outline to my picture, letting me know that it was finished and this was the part which was selected.

To finish off, I duplicated the background layer so that there were now two; the background layer and layer one. I made sure my selected marquee piece was on the correct picture, and then by clicking the eye-tool next to the layer name, I hid the background layer so that when I had cut out my subject and deleted the background, there were no background colours which could disrupt the editing process.
I then, right-clicked on the piece of the picture which was selected and chose the option 'Select Inverse', which changed the marquee so that it was selecting the outside of my person. Then, I chose to delete that part of it using the delete key on my keyboard, and this made the outside around 'Sonny' vanish; this is how I achieved the effect of cutting out my subject, and after this, it will enable me to properly edit my pictures and make my stop-motion look exciting and more professional.