STEP 2 – Let’s add the car to it’s own layer now that we have it all masked off. Hit Ctrl-C then Ctrl-V to copy/paste the masked off portion as a new object. You can see in the object docker that we now have a background layer and new object layer with the car in it.

STEP 3 – Next we will need to clean up the new car object layer slightly and then add the background we want to blur to a new layer. Click on the Invert Mask button on your toolbar or hit Ctrl-Shift-I.

STEP 4 – When I pasted the car as a new object, my cursor changed to the Object Picker tool, but we still need to make changes to the masked area, so select your Freehand Mask Tool icon again.

After you’ve selected the mask tool, hit Delete and this will clean up the edges of the car object layer. When you invert a mask, the mask itself moves a couple of pixels over onto the object you had masked off initially. When you delete, you’re cleaning up a 2 pixel edge or so. To see what I’m talking about, zoom in to the edge of the car and hit Ctrl-Z to undo the delete. You’ll see the edge that you are removing with this step.

So once you’ve cleaned up the object’s edge, move on to the next step!

STEP 5 – Click on the background layer on your object docker.

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