FREE program to edit out photo backgrounds??

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cody

Discussion Starter · Aug 31, 2008

Hi, I'm taking pics of my garments, and wanted to know (besides photoshop), whats a good free program that would let me edit out backgrounds in a snap?
thanks

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charles95405

· #2 · Aug 31, 2008

try Gimp... a photoshop wannabe and it is free

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wormil

· #3 · Sep 1, 2008

Will 2nd Gimp

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

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sjidohair

· #4 · Sep 1, 2008

Please tell me how to take the background out in photoshop, thanks

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charles95405

· #5 · Sep 1, 2008

Sandy Jo....I use the cutout lab (under image) in corel photo paint. Or another way is shown at
Getting Rid of That Darned White Box or check out
How to Color a Cow and Remove the White Box Around It (Cow Included)

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Charles,, I have Photo shop, will this work the same in photo shop as corel photo paint?
thanks
Charles, Please Pm me if you have come up with Numbers for templates, or better yet put it on my blog,, thanks

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sailorpatp

· #7 · Sep 1, 2008

Any program that has layers:

Make a new layer
Make transparent
trace outline (a complete outline)
bucket fill outside of image
merge down

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charles95405

· #8 · Sep 2, 2008

sandy jo...here is a link to a couple tutorial on removing background

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSs94R5sdAI&feature=related[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gySpAuuDM4&feature=related[/media]

I will send a PM

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ambitious

· #9 · Sep 2, 2008

That's a very well informative tutorial Charles. Thank's for sharing.

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