Backgrounds...

[Faith]

Hey all http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

I was wondering, how do you change/cut out the background of an image and replace it with another background. Like, for example,let's say a pic has a green background but I want to put a background of San Francisco, how would I go about doing so?

[Faith]

Hey all http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

I was wondering, how do you change/cut out the background of an image and replace it with another background. Like, for example,let's say a pic has a green background but I want to put a background of San Francisco, how would I go about doing so?

[stephaniebt]

Hi Faith and welcome to the TalkGraphics PI board! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

There's two ways to do this. The first way is to "cut out" the central focus of your image, then copy and paste it into another one. I've written a tutorial on how to do this using the Lasso Selection tool and the Object Paint Eraser here

http://www.eastofthesun.com/pi8/cutout.htm

Another way to do this is to select the background, then fill it with another background. PI8 has a number of selection tools for this purpose. I've written a tutorial on using the new Color Range Selection command which is easily tweaked with Mask mode to select even complex backgrounds. The tut is here

http://www.eastofthesun.com/pi8/cutout.htm

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[Faith]

OMG! I've been trying to learn how to do that for the longest! Thank you, thank you , thank you! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[stephaniebt]

You're welcome http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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[jon spain]

to show two DIFFERENT tuts, please? the URLs look the same to me!

Jon

[stephaniebt]

Ooops, thanks for the heads up. Looks like I cut and pasted the same URL 2X. The second one should be

http://www.eastofthesun.com/pi8/colorrange.htm

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