The secrect to pictures with no background.
You have the product. You have the pictures. But they have that pesky background you couldn’t avoid. You can always pay someone to remove the background. Like here
But if you don’t want to spend the money on each picture, there are alternatives. If you have photoshop or can buy it, that is the first choice. Open your image, then select the polygonal lasso tool (see picture). Trace the product, clicking
every time you need to change direction.
Once you’re back to the beginning, double click to close your selection. Then go to Edit-Copy, File-New, Edit-Paste. Your image is now background free! You can make the background white, or any color you want.
If you don’t have photoshop my free choice is PhotoFiltre. I used it before I had photoshop and consider it as close to photoshop as it gets. You will use the same technique as in photoshop.
In either program you can see what a tool does simply by placing your mouse over the icon, text will display telling you the name of the tool.
Below is a picture in Photofilte, completely selected. You’ll see a dotted line, that is where I have used polygonal tool to trace around it.
The final picture is very pleasing, with no distracting background. In this example I used photoshop to add a soft shadow, and made it a gif so it has a transparent background. I can’t see that photofilter can make transparent backgrounds, so maybe there is a better free image editor.
Tags: editing, pictures, selling
Digitalize It | digitaldoodlebug | 
October 5, 2009 4:36 pm
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