Put each Pic on seperate layers figure on should be on top (1) click on the layer you want to work on (1) select lasso and roughly draw it around the figure select quick mask, and using the brush tool paint the mask close to the figures edge deselect mask(you will see marching ants) Go to Select>inverse hit delete, and the background around the figure will be deleted select>deselect and the only thing on that layer should be the figure Or Put each Pic on seperate layers figure on should be on top (1) click on the layer you want to work on (1) Select layer you want to work on select magnify zooming on figure select eraser (use a reasonably small size eraser) carefully erase the background from around the figure once you have the area around the figure erased, you can change to a larger brush and erase the rest of the background. In Photoshop there are a least 10 different ways to do every thing, here are two.