how to remove/change background from pictures

How to remove/change background from pictures

 

Gone are the days where you pay somebody to remove picture background from your picture. These days you can even do it yourself at the comfort of your home. To do this you need an application called Photoshop. 

Photoshop is an application made for photo editing, manipulation, and creation. The software has all you need to create a stunning picture and look like a professional.

The use professional use of software is a skill on its own and if you acquire it, can earn yo lots of income.

The information you will get from this tutorial is enough to create a gig on fiverr which will in turn earn you some cash in the nearest future. For me, i already have a gig on it.

In case you are new to the word fiverr, let me explain, fiverr  is a platform where you deliver a particular task for someone and he/she pays you for the job rendered and for you to be relevant on fiverr, you need a skill like the one in this tutorial. That having said, let's continue with our tutorial. 

This tutorial will help you learn how to remove the background from any picture (you can remove the background or you can change the background). For the purpose of this tutorial, I will be using Photoshop Elements but you can decide to use just Photoshop it will still achieve the same results. So when you enter Photoshop there are a few tools you need to know (the quick selection tool and the lasso tool).

The above tools are the main needed tools to safely remove the background from any picture. 

Steps to remove the background from a picture;

1. Open Photoshop if it's not already open by clicking on the file and then select open
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3.  once the picture you want to remove the background is imported, the photo shot will look like the below picture
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5. if there is a need to rotate the picture like the picture above, you will need to select the image from the option and then select rotate
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7. after rotating the picture, you can then start the background removal.
8. for pictures that have even color, the quick selection tool will do the whole background removal for you but the image will still be locked as seen in the picture below
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10. to unlock, all you need is to double-click on the key and then click on the ok button 
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12. from the picture below, the picture is now unlocked, hence you can now modify and remove the picture background
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14. for even pictures like the one in this tutorial, you can use only quick selection tool to remove the background. All you need is to select the point you want to remove, then hit on the backspace to remove the background as seen in the picture below
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16. You will do same same for all the parts of the picture that have even color.
17. for all the part that have uneven color, you will need a lasso tool. All you need is to select the starting point, select the points you want to remove, go back to the starting point, and then hit the backspace button to remove the background of the selected area as seen in the picture below
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For a full tutorial video on how to remove the background from a picture, watch the clip below

How to remove background from picture video clip