Design Leap » photoshop http://www.designleap.net/blog Helping Small Business Owners Understand Online and Print Media Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:33:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Photoshop: Use a Stock Photo Model with your Products http://www.designleap.net/blog/2010/12/photoshop-use-a-stock-photo-model-with-your-products.html http://www.designleap.net/blog/2010/12/photoshop-use-a-stock-photo-model-with-your-products.html#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:53:17 +0000 admin http://www.designleap.net/blog/?p=1389 In January on Ask a Designer! – Photoshop: Can’t afford to hire a model for that photo shoot, now you don’t have to. I’ll show you how to take your product photo and put it together with or on a stock photo model.

You will learn:

  • Where to find good, free and low cost Stock Photos
  • What to look for in a stock photo when combining with your product
  • Tips and Tricks on how to make your photos realistic
January 7 and 21, 2011


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In Photoshop, a checkered background represents transparency, when you save your work, the checkered pattern will not show. The only way to remove it, is to add an actual background on the layer under your image. Here’s a tutorial of How to Remove Checkered Background in Photoshop

checkered-background

Checkerboard pattern in Photoshop

Background removed

Background removed

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]]> http://www.designleap.net/blog/2009/10/removing-checkered-background-in-photoshop.html/feed 0 How to remove the background of an image in Photoshop using the Magic Wand tool http://www.designleap.net/blog/2009/04/how-to-remove-the-background-of-an-image-in-photoshop-using-the-magic-wand-tool.html http://www.designleap.net/blog/2009/04/how-to-remove-the-background-of-an-image-in-photoshop-using-the-magic-wand-tool.html#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:26:00 +0000 admin http://www.designleap.net/blog/2009/04/how-to-remove-the-background-of-an-image-in-photoshop-using-the-magic-wand-tool.html It’s best to use the “Magic Wand” when you’re working with an image that has a high contrasting color between the main graphic and the background. It works best when the background is a solid color.

background-layerBefore we get started, you need to rename the “background” layer.
This is the most important step to get this process right.

When you open your image you’ll notice that your layer in the Layers pallet is named “background.” You need to rename this layer to anything else besides “background.”

Here’s how to do this:

Double-click on the “background” layer, a pop-up window will appear, name the layer anything that you want or just leave it as Layer 0 and hit OK.

new-layer

select-backgroundOk, now you’re ready to remove that background layer.

Choose the “Magic Wand” magic-wand tool and then start selecting the background. In our case it’s the blue sky behind the yellow flowers. Hold the shift key to select multiple areas at once.

tolerance-level
NOTE: If you’re image has the high contrasting colors between the image and the background like we have, it’s best to set your “Tolerance” level to 100 and keep Anti-alias and Contiguous boxes checked. This will let you select the background easier.

removed-backgroundAfter everything is selected, hit delete on your keyboard and your background will be removed. Notice instead of your background you see the checkerboard pattern; in Photoshop this means that the background is transparent.

That’s it you’re done!
Just don’t forget to save your hard work.

If you want to practice with this same image, you can download a copy at http://www.flickr.com/photos/77682540@N00/3414300515/

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