For example, you can extract one persons face from a group photo and then paste the face elsewhere.

Open Preview for me Extract an image In the Preview app on your Mac, if the Markup toolbar isnt showing, click the Show Markup Toolbar button, click the Selection Tools menu, then select the Smart Lasso tool.

Connect the end of the border back to its beginning, or stop dragging to connect the border in a straight line back to the beginning.

Do one of the following: To copy the image so that you can paste it in a document, choose Edit Copy.

To remove everything outside of your selection, click Crop or choose Edit Invert Selection, then press Delete.

Extract a PDF page as an image You can select part of an image opened in Preview, then copy and paste it elsewhere or crop the content surrounding it.

If the image is in a PDF, you need to extract the PDF page as an image before you can use the image markup tools.

In the Preview app on your Mac, open the PDF file, choose View Thumbnails, then select the page in the thumbnail sidebar.

Click File Export, type a name, add a tag (optional), then choose where you want to save it.

Click Save. Remove the background from an image In the Preview app on your Mac, if the Markup toolbar isnt showing, click the Show Markup Toolbar button, then click the Instant Alpha button (or use the Touch Bar ).

Preview selects the area you dragged over and any pixels adjacent to it that have the same colors.

To delete everything outside the selected area, choose Edit Invert Selection, then press Delete.

See also Annotate an image in Preview on Mac Take a picture of your screen in Preview on Mac.

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