How to Remove the Background from Any Picture the Easy Way

Name: How to Remove the Background from Any Picture the Easy Way
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In this easy, hands-on course I will present several 5-minute ways of removing a background in Photoshop

Created byStefan Malacu

Last updated 10/2015

English

What you'll learn

change the background of any picture regardless of the composition
remove backgrounds around detailed hair
extract subjects with motion blur
take objects with soft edges and shadows out of pictures

Course content

4 sections • 8 lectures • 31m total length

Introduction0:33
Welcome to my short, focused course on removing backgrounds from pictures!

Many people run into this problem of removing backgrounds, which is usually underestimated. Because in many cases it can be very difficult to produce commercial quality results in a short time, so that is exactly what you will learn!

Remove a white background when the product blends with it4:36
Learn to remove the white background from a product photo to be able to make compositions like banners, ads and other marketing materials.

This is not the easiest case where you finish with one click, as the camera mixes with the background in some areas, and needs to be isolated first.
Removing a white background while maintaining shadows and soft edges6:11
Product photos can contain shadows and soft edges, and this complicates the background removal operation.

In this lecture you'll use blur filters to take care of the issues after you delete the white background.

The quickest way to remove a background around rich curly hair4:39
In this first part we'll use selection tools to quickly remove the background around hair.

You will learn why some tools have pitfalls and are suited for certain cases only.
Removing backgrounds around hair - the perfectionist's way!6:15
Continuing the exercise, you'll learn a different, more time consuming way to remove the background around hair.

However, this method will yield a better result, and depending on your own pictures you can decide which technique to use.
Removing a photo background around a closely colored person5:05
You'll use everything you learned until now to tackle a more complicated case.

More often than not, subjects have rich photo backgrounds that make it harder to separate them apart.

Remove a motion blur background and take out its moving subject3:46
And finally, in this case the subject is blended with the background because of motion blur.

You will learn how to carefully take it out, while maintaining soft edges and the ghostly appearance that subjects in motion have.
Congratulations!0:11
I'm happy you got this far!

Let me make this course better and bigger by telling me what new content you'd like to see, and what should be changed to the current one.

See you in the discussion section!

Requirements

how to install and open Adobe Photoshop :)

Description

Join over 1000 students who are learning one of the most in demand techniques in photo editing!

Learn how to remove the background from any picture in less than 10 minutes!

The course covers 6 exercises and takes only around 30 minutes to complete. I will take you from easy one-color backgrounds to more complex cases where the subjects mix with the backgrounds.

This course is for you if:

You're a regular person with no experience with Photoshop, but who wants to photoshop herself or some friends in different pictures and collages.
You're a designer and want to extract products or people from pictures, for use in ads and banners.
You're a photographer who wants to make surreal compositions with subjects taken out from other pictures.

Remember that if you are unhappy with what you found here, you will get a full 100%, no questions asked, refund.

Or, you can tell me how I can make this course better, and I'll add more lectures based on your feedback. And you will get them for free!

Who this course is for:

anyone who wants to edit himself or a friend into another picture
web designers who need products with a transparent background for making ads
print designers who need people/animals taken out from pictures to be put in posters and other compositions

How to Remove the Background from Any Picture the Easy Way

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What you will learn1 lecture • 1min

Need transparent product photos? Remove white backgrounds2 lectures • 11min

Photoshop your friends! Removing background around hair3 lectures • 16min

No clear edges? Removing backgrounds in motion blur pictures2 lectures • 4min

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