For this science fiction picture i made i looked for a background, then added the students to it. I tried making the students a little transparent so that the background can go through them. Then i added the alien to the picture and changed his color.
I selected the channel that had the most contrast and made a copy of it by dragging the channel to the new channel icon. Then I adjusted the picture by using different levels. I colored it black because it was mostly black. After that, I then selected the figure and saved it as a selection icon. Finally I dragged it up to my background and placed it there.