Step Two: Extract the Subject

Click Next to go to step two of the process, which is where you extract the subject. First, adjust the Extraction Detail slider at the top of the dialog box in order to set how refined the selection should be. Here, we set this to the maximum value because we want the fine strands of hair to be included. Next, click on the portion(s) of the image that you don't want to use. Alternatively, you can click on the subject itself, and then click the Invert button, which is what we did in this case. Either way is fine, although you may find one method to be faster than the other, depending on what the subject is and how intricate the masking boundary is.

Clicking an area, then inverting it to get the desired selection

Next, click the Extract button, which will give you a preview of the extracted object. In this example, we are quite satisfied with the results but see some parts that could be adjusted, so we click Next, which will let us clean up the object with further tools. If you think the subject could be extracted more cleanly by a more accurate boundary, you can click Back to adjust or redraw the boundary. Of course, if you think the subject looks fine as is, click OK, and the subject then appears on the image as an object.

Preview of extracted object