Select the subject. . .goto select/inverse. . . this will make the
selection everything but the original selection.

Make sure that black is the foreground color in the tools pallet. . . click
on the paint bucket and then click on the part that you want to be
background. . . .you may have to click more than once, but the background
will then become black.

dk

At 09:41 PM 5/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I have scanned a photograph and saved it as a psd file in Photoshop 5.0
>I want to make the background of my selected subject black. I know I can do
>this manually with a paint brush but this is a tedious process that doesn't
>always produce a clean transition between the subject and the background.
>Is there a easier way to do this...some way to select the subject and use
>the paint bucket to color the background ?  Step by step please .
>
>Thanks
>m
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