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I have a picture of a person and want to replace the all background by a single color, say red. What is the best way to do it?

Thanks,

John

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Jun 8, 2004
On 7 Jun 2004 21:43:10 -0700, wrote:

I have a picture of a person and want to replace the all background by a single color, say red. What is the best way to do it?

Thanks,

John
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tacitr
Jun 8, 2004
I have a picture of a person and want to replace the all background by a single color, say red. What is the best way to do it?

Step 1; Select the person, by using the selection tools (lasso, marquee, and so on), the Pen tool, or some combination thereof.

Step 2: Select->Inverse.

Step 3; Fill the selection with color by holding down Alt and pressing Delete.


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Odysseus
Jun 8, 2004
In article ,
(Tacit) wrote:

I have a picture of a person and want to replace the all background by a single color, say red. What is the best way to do it?

Step 1; Select the person, by using the selection tools (lasso, marquee, and so
on), the Pen tool, or some combination thereof.

Step 2: Select->Inverse.

Step 3; Fill the selection with color by holding down Alt and pressing Delete.

I prefer to do solid-colour backgrounds with a Curves adjustment layer (using horizontal ‘curves’); that way the original image is untouched and the clipping mask can be edited, feathered, &c. — or the colour changed very easily — at a later date. And unlike a normal layer it only adds one channel’s worth of data to the file.

Another non-destructive method is to first ‘float’ the image as a layer over the background (which, unlike an adjustment layer, can be anything at all); after making the selection as above it can be used as a layer mask. This can also be edited after the fact.


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tacitr
Jun 8, 2004
Another non-destructive method is to first ‘float’ the image as a layer over the background (which, unlike an adjustment layer, can be anything at all); after making the selection as above it can be used as a layer mask.

That’s the way I do it; however, I suspect a layers-based approach is likely to be confusing to the original poster at this time, as it seems he’s still new to concepts such as selection and filling.


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Gene Palmiter
Jun 9, 2004
Right…I do it the beginners way….but am starting to understand some of the other concepts. It’s better to get some enjoyment from early successes than to be totally confused and give up PS for ….oh….say….Album.

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Another non-destructive method is to first ‘float’ the image as a layer over the background (which, unlike an adjustment layer, can be anything at all); after making the selection as above it can be used as a layer mask.

That’s the way I do it; however, I suspect a layers-based approach is
likely to
be confusing to the original poster at this time, as it seems he’s still
new to
concepts such as selection and filling.


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