# Cutting out heads in photoshop - how?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-heads-in-photoshop-how/193156>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [July 4, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-heads-in-photoshop-how/193156 "2006-07-04T20:31:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Xict](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Xict)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-heads-in-photoshop-how/193156/1 "2006-07-04T20:31:05Z")

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![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/2583/efc9b8627a1af836.gif)  
^ see right there how the people’s heads are cut out and then posted on the background of their choice.  
how is this done? simple polygon lasso? are there any TRICKS to doing this and making it look good like that image is?  
doesn’t the picture of the face have to be TAKEN on a WHITE background?  
thanks in advance