CS 5 free hand trace and cut ?

Hi all-
I feel dumb already but I've fooled around long enough. Since upgrading from CS 3 to CS 5 I cant seem to freestyle trace and cur pieces of images and drag them to another picture and drop them in. I did it easily in PS 3 and I'm just not seeing how to do it in PS 5. Again I just want to trace objects freehand with a brush tool or whatever and then cut them out and drag them to another image.
Easy right...?  I've been trying to do it for probably 4 months now and cant do it.
Help please...?

Wow thanks for the quick answer. Now to explain this...Under PS 3 I used to be able to go to an editing screen that contained a paintbrush and an option to "smart highlight" and freehand draw around any part of an object and when you went all the way around the piece you wanted you could click on a little paint bucket and it would cut out just the part you want from the picture and then leave it all by itself on a gray and white checkerboard. Then you could drag that to another image and just drop it. Trouble is, I cant find any of that stuff in PS 5.
You can tell I'm a PS novice, but its really driving me nuts as thats mostly what I used PS for.
Does this make sense to ya..?
Thanks again for the quick answer friend..
Randolph

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