Cutouts

Cutout- a picture that has the background dropped from the subject 

-the purpose of a cut out is to emphasize the subject and be able to place it on any background

-singles out the subject to make it more interesting and noticeable

To do a cut out in photoshop:

-using a paintbrush, magic wand, or lasso tool you select the background and crop it out of the photo

-first bring the photo to the bottom of the layers box to the button that has a gray box with a white circle

-the use the paintbrush (on the black square) to paint away the background

-if you mess up the white square will replace any of the photo that you may have accidentally erased

Quote Assignment

make a new doc in indesign.

then put four good quotes on the doc with four different head shots.

1. just a regular picture with no background cut out, cropped but with the background

2. cut out with the white background

3. cut out on a white background with a box

4. you create it however, drop the background but can do whatever you want