Saturday, December 20, 2008

Create Powerful Backgrounds in Photoshop

Don't let the wrong background ruin an otherwise fine photo. Here's how to remove the original background and create a new one that looks like it came out of a photographer's studio.


Written by Chad Neuman on December 1, 2008

Professional portrait photographers often use muslin or other textured fabric as a background in portraits. But if you don't have these fabrics when you shoot your subject, or if someone else gives you a photo with a background you don't like, you're not out of luck. Instead, you can create many different backgrounds in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4.
Chad's tutorial shows you how to go from here...

to here...

Chad Neuman is an internationally published freelance magazine writer, graphic designer, photographer, and educator from Florida. Subscribers to his mailing list receive very occasional updates and free vector art/graphics. Subscribe through his Web site at http://www.chadneuman.com/

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