Problem with the selection lasso, quick selection and error messages (saying selection is empty)

Hello

I'm trying the sect a person on a picture and paste it into this collage photo, I'm working on that. First I tried to use the quick selection tool, but I guess my man I'm cutting too many colors: when I use the quick selection, it immediately goes into a rectangle around the entire image. I even tried to paint the rest of the picture in black with the exception of humans, but always the same results with the quick selection. Then I tried the lasso, but nine times out of ten, he would stop and do an odd choice. When I finally got a good lasso selection (done after much cursing) then CS6 told me that 'the selection is empty' . What? I made a new layer before I made the selection.

Can you help me solve these problems?

I just downloaded CS6 just a day ago and have a lot to learn, but I worked with Paint.net and Paint Shop Pro for the past two years, so I'm familiar with paint and photo editing software.

Thank you

Kelly

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Please do not submit your application in green. It's a useless distraction.

You are trying to make a selection in an empty layer.

Back to the image of the layer, not the empty one that you created, and you will be able to make a selection.

Once selected, press Cmd + J to your object selected on a new layer. I think that's what you had in mind.

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