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Software to remove background from photo

Dec 7, 2008 7:06AM PST

Hi does anyone know of any free software to remove background from photos? For instance if I take a photo in my bathroom and want to remove that background... I have picassa, Microsoft picture manager and paint and photobucket. I can't seem to find such an option on any of these and when I use the erase and fill option it looks tacky. I'd appreciate any ideas.

Thanks!

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Blending and masking.
Dec 7, 2008 10:22PM PST

I think you need to find out about Blending and Masking, and working with Layers.

I don't know if there is any free software available to do this type of thing, because it is fairly specialized and sophisticated software.

There's a tutorial in the link below showing how this would be done in Paint Shop Pro.
http://www.hypergurl.com/pspblending.html

I hope that helps give you some ideas.

Mark

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To a6rain. Post deleted.
Sep 15, 2009 5:25AM PDT

Your post wasn't needed to this 2008 thread.

That site you linked to. My firewall popped up a warning about it haboring spyware. If you have any affiliation with the site, you may want to get them to check that.

Mark

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Software to remove background from photo
Sep 23, 2009 10:50AM PDT

That site you linked to My firewall popped up a warning about it haboring spyware.

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Re:Software to remove background from photo
Apr 19, 2010 11:42PM PDT
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free photo editing software to remove backgrounds
May 2, 2010 3:47PM PDT

There are various free photo editing softwares using which you can remove your photograph background very easily. Some of the photo editing software include: PhotoScape, GIMP for Windows, Paint.NET, Serif PhotoPlus, Photo Pos Pro, Pixia, VCW VicMan's Photo Editor, PhotoFiltre, Ultimate Paint, ImageForge, Picasa

In this list some softwares are free while some provide basic functionality with free edition.