how can i remove the background from a photograph easily?

Question

tried photoshop but i couldnt do it very well

Answer 1

To do it easily you need a natty piece of software that can work within photoshop called 'fluid mask' which works like magic but is quite expensive ...otherwise you have to do the best you can painstakingly eradicating the background using the special erase facility on your photo handling software (usually with mixed quality results)

Here it is I just went and found it;
http://www.vertustech.com/

you can get a free trial BUT you can't save' the results...it does let you find out if it is right for your job though!

Answer 2

In PhotoShop is easy: with the lasso select the area you want to preserve; copy and paste to create new layer.
Now create another empty layer and place or create the background you like.
Be sure the selected image you cut is in top of the newly created layer in the palette.

Answer 3

Before digital manipulation.... we used to cut it out! Re-shoot the foreground on whatever background we wanted to use, and using touch up brushes to blend in on the print!!!

Either that lasso it out, magnifying as much as poss to keep it close to the subject. Using Photo-shop or similar, it just takes practise and patience.

Answer 4

Album Burger Photograph's main screen displays the current page presently being viewed. From this screen, you may navigate through your album's existing pages and other existing albums in the program. The menus: "Album, Page and Image" offer contextual fonctionalities. You can view the album and the current active pages at all times. The "Tools" menu offers practical and professionnal tools such as: Exporting an album, Search, Full screen viewing, Web Site Creator, etc.





Fichier

Open the Window Settings to access to the general properties of the program.

Maintenance - Corrects the errors or the corruptions that might have happened while using the program.

Closes the program.



Album

Creates a new album.

Deletes an album.

Displays the complete integrated image list in the album

Displays the list of existing albums in Album Burger Photograph. With this list, you can select from the displayed window, an album you wish to view. The selected albums in the list will be the only ones to open. *Note: you can also choose a "Category" in the "Filter Box" and only the albums selected from the chosen category will appear in the list. This functionality is very useful when there are several albums to choose from.

Displays the current Album's Properties window on screen. This window allows you to define the album's title as well as a "category", such as: family, vacations, Christmas, work, etc... When you display the album list, it is also possible for you to display it by category.


Page

Adds a new page to the current album.

Delete the current page on the screen.



Displays the preceding page of current album.

Displays the next page of the current album.



Transfert To... - Enables to transfer a page from one album to another.

Prints the displayed page. The background colour or image as well as, all the images on this page are printed.

Sends the current page to a friend by e-mail.



Background - This menus generates the background image. We can add it, remove it, recouperate the background image using the export function.

Modifies the sequential order of the pages of an album thanks to this function



Displays the current album's page list on screen. Therefore, it is possible for you, by selecting an item in the list to open another page than the one shown.

Displays the current Page Properties window. You may define information such as the page title, the background colour as well as a brief discription of the image contents.


Image

Integrates a new image taken from an existing document in your computer, a CD or another source. Note: Album Burger Photograph automatically makes a copy and saves it in it's database. So, if you delete the source document or remove the CD, there will not be any problems when viewing your album.

Integrates all images presents in a folder. Note: Album Burger Photograph automatically makes a copy and saves it in it's database. So, if you delete the source document or remove the CD, there will not be any problems when viewing your album.

Integrates a new image from a scanner or camera.

Deletes the image from the images database of Album Burger Photograph.


Cuts out the selected image. Use this functionality to send an image to another page or album. In the targeted page click on "Paste" button and the image will automatically be moved.

Copies the selected image. Use this function to duplicate an image, either in the same page or elsewhere, another page or album. Press "Paste" button and the image will automatically be duplicated in the targeted area.

Pastes the "Cut" or "Copy" image selected in the current page.



Prints the selected image.

Sends the image to a friend by e-mail.



Reduces the image's size.
Magnifies the image's size.

Redefines the image to it's original size. Album Burger Photograph saves the images in their original size and it also displays the image as defined by the user. Therefore, with this button, one can define the image to its original size.



Image Editor allows you to modify the selected image. Therefore, you can correct flaws and improve the image. This tool offers full functionnalities for a practical effective editor.

Replaces the currently displayed image for another. A window opens so that the user can select the image file to replace.



Allows to export an image from the image database of Album Burger Photograph to an external file. The user can recover an image at any time.

Displays the selected Image Properties window. You can define information such as image description, the place and date where the photograph was taken. The photographer's name can also be written. This information shall appear at the bottom of the photograph.


Tools

Full screen viewing allows you to view the images one by one, at their maximum size.

The Slide Show allows you to view the images from an album in consecutive order.

Import allows you to import one or several albums from the file ".balb" (an extension file for exporting from Album Burger Photograph).

Export one or several albums from the exporting file ".balb." With this type of file, you may make a backup copy of your albums. You can give this file to a friend so that he may import your albums in his Album Burger Photograph Program.

Web Page Creator: Album Burger Photograph enables you to create a "Web Site" very easily. The Creator can help you to build a Web Site with one or several albums, respecting the page and album structure that the user has created.

Search Engine: Finds images with key words given by the user. Therefore a user having many albums can quickly find an image.

Answer 5

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