Hi,

I am designing a catalog however the photos have a background, for
example the pictures are of shoes but i can see the table the shoe is
sitting on and the background behind the shoe, is there a way to cut
the shoes out in Photoshop so the background is removed?

Thanks

I don't use Photoshop but I know that like several other software products it has tools to repaint the background to a color of your choice. There is a product made by Vertus specifically for background removal called Fluid Mask
http://www.vertustech.com/fm_overview.htm

There are some great instructional videos on youtube.com that show how to do this in Photoshop. Just type, remove background from photo in the search section.
Hope that helps!