dawndeer Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 Hello, I'm new to graphics editing. I'd like to change the background on a photograph so that the background is all white. Is there an easy way to do this? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Man Dan Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 That all depends upon how similar the background is. If it's, say, an indoors pic where the main background is a wall color, then it'd be pretty easy to use the Magic Wand tool to select the wall color. If, though, it's an outdoors-type pick with greens, blues, et cetera, it may not be so easy... If you want, you could post the image here so we could se exactly what it is you need to remove. Quote I am not a mechanism, I am part of the resistance; I am an organism, an animal, a creature, I am a beast. ~ Becoming the Archetype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawndeer Posted February 9, 2006 Author Share Posted February 9, 2006 I see how it works. Thanks. Is this the purpose of those "chroma green" backgrounds - to make it easy to replace the background. Does green just make it easier to do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Yeah, that's one reason they use green-screens. It makes it easy to automatically tell the computer, "hey if you see this green stuff, replace it with pixels from this other background picture." That's really important because in film they have to do hundreds or thousands of frames of this stuff ("Sin City" anyone?), and there's just no way any human being would have the stamina to do that. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Tech / STUART Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Now what we NEED for this is a color-to-alpha tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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