Selecting the moon and removing the background

…For creating the eclipse composite featured in this course,…you now need to separate the moons from the background.…Although using the lightened blend mode trick to integrate the moon sequence into…a landscape image might work in some situations.…Taking the time to actually separate the moons from the background will allow you…the maximum amount of flexibility in terms of how and…where you position the moon sequence within the composit background.…So what we're going to do is use the Elliptical Marquee tool here to…create a selection around the different moons, and,…I'm going to show you this using a few examples in a couple of different files.…

But we're not going to go through all the moons in each image,…because essentially it's just repeating the same process over and over again.…There are a few things you have to be careful of,…and you have to pay attention to what's going on in the layers panel.…But essentially, once you have the basic steps down,…it's just repeating it on each layer.…So what I'm going to do is zoom up close to 100%.…