How to Easily Erase Background from Hair: the Photoshop Background Eraser Tool

Step 1

Open the woman image in Photoshop

Step 2

Click and hold over the “Eraser” tool in the toolbar and select the “Background Eraser Tool”.

Step 3

In the top toolbar, set a brush size that works best for you according to the image you are editing. In this case it is set to 70 with the Hardness set to 70% and the Spacing set to 1%.

Step 4

In the “Sampling” method, choose “Once”.

Step 5

Under “Limits” pick the “Discontiguous” one from the dropdown menu.

Step 6

Finally, set the Tolerance to about 45%.

Step 7

Now that the Background Eraser Tool is set, simply click on a background area near the hair and start erasing as you normally do with the eraser tool.

Step 8

With this simple process, keep erasing the background from hair on your subject.

Step 9

Once you finish erasing the background from hair, you can keep using the “Background Eraser Tool” to remove the remaining background content or you can simply add a layer mask and mask the rest of the image as you normally do. To do that, click on the “Add Layer Mask” icon in the Layers Panel.