Irregular cropping?

I have a photo of myself and I would like to crop just myself out of the photo and put it into a template. I did it before with a webpage I already have up, but I forgot how I did it and I can't remember! I went into quick mask mode got outlined the section I want to crop. I used the wand tool to highlight the section, but everytime I try to drag it into the template I get just the outline and when I switch back into standard mode it looses the section all together! Help!

you could either use the magnetic lasso tool, or free lasso tool i guess.

Just take what you want, then copy (make sure image is flattend) and past when you want it to go.

cheers