How to make Silhouette for your picture with Photoshop?

 During my visit to Paris and while touring with my husband and friends next to the house of Dalida and behind the famous Church of the Sacred Heart(Eglise du Sacré-Coeur), I saw the area where artists of Silhouette are congregate,They were calling us "come, only two minutes" I really like them and how fast they are doing their job.

About silhouette :
A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is basically featureless, and the whole is typically presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an outline which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic media.

How to convert your photo to silhouette by Photoshop?

my photo ( Silhouette )

• Open the picture in Photoshop.
• Select the object with the pen tool, then right click and select selection.
• Edit menu > Copy to copy the selection. 
• Start new project and name it, then chose the color you like for the background (I prefer white).
• Edit menu > Paste to paste the selection.
• Image menu > Adjustments > Hue / Saturation. Put the Lightness to - 100, and click OK.
• The image in now ready for use .
• Save your work.

You can use it with any background to give your photos different look and effects.

Sample of Silhouette pictures 

   

Thanks 

 MR