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How To Remove Background From Picture

I want to show you how you can completely remove the background in a photo using an app that comes for free and pre-installed with Windows 10.

I completely removed the background from one photo and now I could do whatever I want with that picture I can insert it into a Word document and email a PowerPoint presentation, or I can even just save it as a PNG and use it wherever I want.

All right, well why don’t we jump on the PC and I’ll show you step by step how you can do it. Here I am on my windows 10 pc if you don’t have Windows 10 but you’d like to be on Windows 10.

How to Remove Background
How to Remove Background

Did you know if you’re on Windows 7 or on Windows 8 you can upgrade to Windows 10 entirely for free?

We just want to cut out this one picture, how do we do that well luckily an app that comes with Windows 10 will allow us to do this, go down to your taskbar, and within the search box let’s type in paint, 3d, we’re going to use the paint 3d app to remove the background.

You’ll see paint 3d show up as one of the best match options, let’s click on that. Once the app is open, let’s click on new.

This will start a new project and let’s take the photo that you want to remove the background from and then simply drag and drop it into paint 3d.

Magic Select
Magic Select

Here’s one photo now in paint 3d and I still have the background showing up in here, how do we remove the background, it turns out it’s extremely easy to remove the background.

We’re going to use something called Magic select, and there are two ways to get to magic select you can either click on magic select up on the top bar or when you have the photos selected, you can click on magic select over on the right-hand side.

Now, I see a rectangle appear around the photo and I need to drag the corners around the object that I want to remove from the photo.

Next

So, I’m going to go down here and I’m going to select just myself from the photo. Once I’ve selected myself, let’s click on next over on the right-hand side, check that out so paint 3d has identified me from the background, although it really hasn’t done a perfect job.

So, I’m going to click on Add over on the right-hand side, and I’m going to zoom in on the photo and then I’m simply going to drag a line over my hair. What this does is this helps paint 3d realize that my hair should be part of the selection.

You’ll notice that it’s still missing my sunglasses on my head so once again I’m going to drag a line over the sunglasses, and that’s now included both my hair and my sunglasses.

Now I’m going to zoom out and see if it captured everything else properly. I’m looking down at my fitness tracker and it looks like here too and missed a little bit of it it’s pretty close to the background.

So here too I’m simply going to drag and add a line over this and now it’ll include that as part of the selection as well. If I zoom out overall this looks pretty good.

Now, along with being able to add things that maybe paint 3d missed. If for whatever reason paint 3d selected something that shouldn’t be included, you can click on remove and then just like we did with ADD, draw a line over it and that’ll remove it from the selection.

Overall though I’m pretty satisfied with the selection and everything that’s currently selected is what I want to pull out from this photo. Once you’re done adding and removing down below there’s a checkbox that says auto-fill background.

What this means is, once we finish here it’ll fill in the background where I was standing it’s pretty impressive how it does it. However, if I uncheck this it would simply leave a cut out or a white background in the back of where I’m standing.

I want to autofill the background that sounds neat so let’s now click on Done. I clicked on done and it still looks pretty similar what’s the difference well now if I click on myself.

Look at that I can remove myself from that position on the photo and I can place myself anywhere else in fact I could expand myself I could reduce the size of myself. And here you’ll notice the very nice job at filling in the background.

reduce the size

Now with my image here I can now use this anywhere. I could press Ctrl C to copy or it could press Ctrl x if I want to cut. Similarly, I could right-click, and then I could select either of those commands whether I want to cut, copy, I’m going to copy for now, and let’s see where else we can use this photo.

I’m now in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and I’m going to press Ctrl V to paste. And there you see my image from pain 3d now shows up in PowerPoint and I could adjust the size of this.

Select Image

I’m now in Microsoft Word and just like in PowerPoint I could press Ctrl V.

I think you probably get the idea but here I am in Microsoft Outlook, and here too I can paste my photo into an email, and just as I could in the other applications here, I could adjust the size. If I want to include myself in an email, so you can paste this photo wherever you want to use it.

Let’s say though that you want to save the photo, how do you go about doing that well let’s jump back into paint 3d. I’m back in paint 3d and how do I see just myself without the background, well let me copy myself again, I’m going to click on don’t save.

I now have a blank canvas and here I’m going to paste my photo by pressing Ctrl V, I’m going to adjust the size, so I just fill up the canvas. Now that I’m placed within the canvas, I can go up to the menu, I can click on Save As, and I can now save it as an image.

When I go to save it as an image, I could select the type of file I want to save it as to whether it’s a PNG, a JPEG GIF, or whatever I want to save it as. And one thing that’s very nice is I can even set it so it has a transparent background.

So, if I want to use this somewhere else, this background will be transparent. Now I can click on Save. This opens up the File Save dialog I’m going to give it a name.

Now I’m going to click on Save here now you’ll see on my desktop I have a new file for Photo transparent background if I double click on that you’ll see my image with the transparent background.

Now one of the problems is, there’s a lot of space on the left of me and a lot of space on the right of me. That’s one of the downsides of saving the image in paint 3d, you’ll get that so how do we do better.

Well, we’re going to use an app called paint dot net and I’ll show you in a moment how you can get that paint on that is by far one of my favorite image editing apps, it’s completely free to download and install and to use and it works very well.

Think of it as Photoshop light it gives you most of the tools you need to use to edit images you have things like layers so even has some more advanced functionality on the paint dotnet or the get paint Dotnet website, click on the download link for paint dotnet and go through the install process.

Once you finish installing paint dotnet you’ll see an application that looks like this. I’m going to click up in the top left-hand corner on the File menu and go to new.

This opens up the new dialog, and for the width and height of the new image, I’m going to leave these default settings. These match the dimensions of the image that’s on the clipboard, or my image. I’m going to click on OK next.

This creates an image in paint dotnet and now I’m going to press Ctrl V to paste my image, this now pastes my image, and the checkered background indicates that this is a transparent background.

This also opens up the Save As dialog and now I could choose what format I want to save this as I’m going to stick with PNG for this image, I’m going to call it Kevin transparent background second and now I’m going to click on Save.

Next. This opens up the Save Configuration Wizard and all the settings look good to me. I’m going to click on OK. The advantage of saving an image this way is you won’t have any unnecessary space on the left and on the right of the image.

Over on the left is the image that I saved in paint dotnet and over on the right is the version that I saved in paint 3d.

Now with paint 3d if you just want to very quickly save an image and you don’t care about the extra space on the sides, you could just save it through there and you won’t have to get an additional app.

However, if you want to save it in the best possible way, I’d recommend getting an app like paint dotnet remember it’s free, and then you can save, just the image itself isn’t that cool.

And that’s with an app that’s free with Windows 10 it’s amazing what you could do with all those pre-installed apps on Windows 10.

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