You Suck at Photoshop #5: Select Color Range:
2:20 totally makes fun of people who like to magic-wand everything in a color range instead of using the "select color range" tool. I never knew about the select color range tool! [Embarrasing, I know.] Good to know. The color range tool is effective for pulling things off of their backgrounds. Just make sure that when you go to Select --> Color Range that you turn up the fuzziness so that you don't have a white (or whatever color your background was) fuzzy shadow around the foreground object you're extracting.