How To Take Extract Image from a Background?

I have a pic of a women wearing headphones, the background is
white but i want to show her on a black background
So i have created a blackground in fireworks.. how do i now
get the women out of the background she is in and onto my black
ground without grabbing any of the background surrounding her??
What tool do i use
Where do i find the tool
and how do i use it thanks?

jono25 wrote:
> I have a pic of a women wearing headphones, the
background is white but i want
> to show her on a black background
>
> So i have created a blackground in fireworks.. how do i
now get the women out
> of the background she is in and onto my black ground
without grabbing any of
> the background surrounding her??
>
You can do this a couple ways:
1) Use the Magic wand to select the white background and
delete it, then
touch up the edges around your subject.
2) Create a vector or bitmap mask to hide the white
background. This is
more flexible and less destructive to the original image, as
no pixels
are actually deleted from the image. This is the method I
would recommend.
Vector masks give you more control over fine tuning the mask,
and it
will give you a chance to get some practice with the pen
tool.
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