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 > > PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download > on our web site - visit our download page at: > http://nospin.com/pc/files.html > > PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download on our web site - visit our download page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html