When putting together graphic designs or editing photos, opaque backgrounds on images can be a hindrance - so knowing how to ...

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Photoshop has features and tools that allow you to do very practical and useful things. Knowing how to blur image backgrounds without affecting the image in Photoshop can be a very practical and ...

A photo with a busy background can be distracting and divert attention away from your subject. If you have no control over the background during your shoot, you can still make alterations using an ...

Adobe Photoshop CS5 supports the use of layers which enable you to apply effects such as fading to your images. Fading lowers the opacity of the layer, enabling you to blend your image with the ...

Photoshop is loaded with tools to aid with just about any kind of image adjustment you can imagine, from simple contrast sliders to entirely replacing the sky in a photo. So of course you can also use ...

Most images from the Internet contain a background, either a white or black. The most common solution to get rid of the background is to make a selection of the background with a selection tool and ...

You may have a photo, illustration, or other type of image where you want to keep the subject but remove the background. We’ll show you a handful of ways to do this in Photoshop so you can pick the ...

The subject in Photoshop is usually what the picture is about. For example, you may take the picture of someone at the beach. The person in the picture is the subject and everything else would be the ...

From product photography to web design, sometimes an image is just better without the background. But attempting to tackle the task without the right tools can make even the most skilled photographers ...