Today you will learn how to make the background white in Photoshop. This can come in handy when you have a great photo of yourself, but it has an unwanted background. Of course, you can use not only but any other one you like best. The challenge in this tutorial isn't choosing a paint shade, it's getting rid of unwanted backgrounds. We will consider several options for performing this operation. I will try to explain as simply as possible how to make the background white in Photoshop.
Initial information
Before describing the direct instructions, you first need to understand why you can't use just one of them. The fact is that photographs have their own individual background. Therefore, you can never predict what will be in the background of your photo. A white background for a photo can be assigned using several combined methods. It's up to you to decide which method is right for your photo. If you can't figure it out exactly, use them all in order.
1st method
The easiest way is to use the Fill tool (hotkey G). Select the desired color through the palette and click on the area you want to paint. This method is not suitable if there are many small details in the background. Then you will have to paint each part separately. This can take a lot of precious time. Plus, there may always be unpainted parts left. Then you will have to manually paint over them using the eraser (E) or brush tool (B).
2nd method
This method is suitable if the background consists of a uniform color or a gradient. Then ordinary filling will be powerless. But “adjustment” layers come to the rescue. At the bottom, in the layers panel, there is an additional menu where there is a button with a tooltip “creates an adjustment layer or a fill layer.” Click on it and find the “curves” item. A new window will open in front of us, where we need to select the eyedropper with a tooltip “sample image for setting the white point.” After that, left-click on the background and the background turns white. But this method is not ideal, because in some cases it changes the main image. So be careful.
3rd method
And finally, the most universal method. Using it, you can set any background, for example, a multi-colored or black and white background. But unlike the previously described methods, here you will have to work manually. The essence of this method is to separate the main image from the background and, accordingly, completely remove it. This can be done using any selection tool, for example the pen (P). This tool allows you to accurately determine the selected area.
As soon as you connect the first and last points, you need to click LMB along the path and select “Create selected area”. Choose the shading radius arbitrarily, depending on the photo. Next you need to invert the selection. To do this, select any selection tool, right-click on the image and find “Invert selected area.”
Conclusion
Question “How to make the background white in Photoshop?” may seem too simple at first glance. And most often it remains without due attention. But when time comes, it is not always possible to find the right solution to this problem. This article will help you properly understand how to make a background white in Photoshop in various situations.
How to make a white background in a photo and post on Instagram in light colors? You don't need an art education to do this. Processing with a white background has been quite popular lately. In addition to the light tone, it also contains some dark shades and beige tones. Let's see how to properly whiten the background in a photo.
Not every photo can have a white background and process it in a similar style. To do this, you need to try to take a photo that has a lot of white, black and beige.
Before you make a white background in a photo, you need to capture the frame correctly. Our simple tips will help you make it perfect:
- Look for more white surfaces: wall, tabletop, rug, refrigerator, cabinet door, window and more.
- Try to stick to minimalism. The fewer objects there are, the more aesthetically pleasing the photo will look.
- Take a close look at the details that will be shown in the photo. They should successfully resonate with each other.
Whiter than white
The essence of the treatment is to whiten not only the background, but also most surfaces. How to make a white background white in a photo? It is necessary to reduce the contrast or whiten individual elements.
The Facetune app can handle this. It is paid, but there are often discounts on it. You can download the Facetune 2 application, the program is absolutely free and also contains a whitening function.
Step 1: Facetune
- Go to Facetune and open the desired photo in the program.
- Press the “White” function and move your finger over the desired surfaces that need to be made white.
- You can use an eraser to correct actions.
- Once you have achieved the result, save the photo.
Photos BEFORE and AFTER processing:
Step 2. VSCO
You can make the background of a photo white in the VSCO application by choosing the right filter for it. All you have to do is make a couple of adjustments and you're done! These VSCO filters are ideal for monochrome white profiles, they leave the most natural shades in the photo:
- S2;
- HB1;
- A6;
- N1.
In additional settings you need to increase Contrast and clean it up a little Saturation. As a result, your photo acquires a white tint and perfect processing.
Final result:
Painter-plasterer
The third editor that will help you make a white background in a photo is called Snapseed. The application is free and available in the official AppStore and Google Play stores.
Instructions on how to make a white background in a photo:
- Open the photo in the program.
- Next follow: Tools - Brush - Saturation.
- Set Saturation to -5 or -10. Swipe your finger across the screen to whiten areas of the photo.
- Next follow: Tools - Brush - Exposure.
- Set Exposure to -0.3 and also slide your finger across the screen.
- Play around with the values until the picture is perfect.
- Next, all that remains is to process the photo in VSCO.
The result of background whitening in Snapseed.
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Welcome to my blog! Today we'll figure it out how to create a clean white background in photos. We will do this with the help of the excellent photo editor Fhotofiltre. It has a lot of awesome features, including Fill. It is this simple button that allows you to easily change the background of the image.
As I said in previous lessons, first you need to correctly download this wonderful photo editor (abbreviated as FR) in Russian (if you don't know how to do this, look). And, starting with this lesson, you will see how to use it to beautifully process images, pictures, etc.
And if you need to superimpose one photo on another, look. It happens that you want to put one image on a beautiful background. For example, so that some product appears on a different background. Or, for example, “putting” a headdress on someone. How this is done is shown in lesson 13.
How to open a photo editor and start working with it
So, to be able to make white or other backgrounds, you should open the program.
1. Open the editor, double-clicking on it with the left mouse button (in short - LMB).
2. You see, the FR has opened. Let's upload a photo. Left-click once on “File” in the upper left corner. And, right there - “Open”.
3. Here I'll go into a little more detail to make it clearer for beginners. We need to find a photo/image. I have a photo saved on my computer desktop. Therefore, look, in the very top line “Folder” the name of this place is indicated “Desktop” (1). For you it may be something different. To understand what exactly, look in the left column, you see that the field with the desktop picture is slightly highlighted (2).
When you find the image you want, click LMB on it once (3), the name should appear in the bottom line (4). It can be any word, for example “Loaded”, or a set of numbers: screen-shot-16-at, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, we will change the name when saving. Click “Open” (5).
4. As you can see, photo opened. If your editor is minimized at this moment, click in the middle window in the upper right corner(1) to open it in full format (this makes it easier to work with). And then click on the indicated button (2) with “Fill”.
5. Here we see a lot of useful information.
- Firstly, if you are not satisfied with the scale of the picture, you can enlarge it to view it by pressing the triangle (1). A list will pop up and select the scaling (in percentage).
Don't confuse scaling with image size. When scaling, the dimensions do not change.
- Secondly, the photograph itself. If desired, the frame around it can be easily removed by pressing button 2.
- Thirdly, a very convenient function - a gallery of photos/pictures that you currently have to work with appears below (3).
- Fourthly, the size of the image is immediately visible (4).
- And, the most necessary element in this lesson is the fill function (5 ) — indicated by white arrows. Pay attention to the window below, it opens when you click on Fill and shows very important parameters. Let's look at an example.
How to make a white background in an image
Let's make one important adjustment right away.. In the top panel, click “Service”. A small field will open, at the very end click “Settings”. Then, use your left mouse to open the black triangle. A list will pop up, select "History". Mark the number, I recommend - no less than 20.
What does it mean? When processing photos, it is possible to reverse the operation if something is done wrong (as in a regular Word document, when we click on the “Back” arrow). So what is the number you can indicate here how many steps you take and you can return. If it’s not clear now, just remember where it’s done so you can come back and set it up again later.
Now you can move on to what the lesson is about. - let's make a white background. At the same time, I’ll show you how you can easily fill pictures with a colored background.
It's very simple. Now we need some buttons located on the right side.
1. I click "Fill".
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. I set the color to white, first clicking on the top sheet (indicated by the arrow), then on the white square in the color scheme suggested below.
3. I specify the parameters: a) “tolerance” and b) “transparency”.
Note: for tolerance I most often use the following parameters: 20, 30, 70 ; When it comes to transparency, I almost always leave the scale at 100%. But, if you need a less bright background, I lower it to 80-60. Texture will be discussed in detail later.
4
. I move the mouse over the photo, select a place and click LMB. The background becomes white, but only partially. 
5. Again I repeat the action by moving the mouse somewhere else(shown by arrow). Great, I'll continue. 
6. Everything would be wonderful, but the top of the hat is slightly stained with white.
7. Press the cancel icon(curved red arrow in the top menu). And also I reduce the tolerance value from 30 to 15.
8. Everything is fine, the hat is not touched. That's why, I click a second time. For now, do not pay attention to the remaining stripes, just below I will process the image with a brush and clear the picture of them.
How to use a brush when working on a background
All that remains is to erase some of the blots on the white background that remain on top. This is easy to do.
- Click on the “Brush” button(No. 1), it is located under the fill. Another window will pop up (No. 2), in which you can choose the shape of the brush - thinner, thicker, etc. I almost always use the one I marked in the screenshot below. To select, click on it.
- All that remains is to carefully go over the brush, like an eraser, erasing all the roughness. Press the left mouse, move it over the background without releasing it - and erase what is unnecessary. Periodically release the mouse and press it again. This is necessary in order to, if necessary (if something is spoiled, erase the excess), make a return using the red arrow.
Note: The brush not only allows you to erase the background, but also perfectly erases unnecessary details in images.
I. To quickly erase an unnecessary background with white, you need to select the largest brush size.
To do this, click on photo viewing mode zoom function. By default it is usually 100% - let's set it to 200%.
The photo we are working with will immediately increase sharply - No. 1 (I remind you that its size remains the same). Click on “Brush” (No. 2), select the largest size for it (No. 3). Now it is much easier to paint the background of the image white, because... The brush size has increased. If you try to work with a brush at 100% scale for comparison, the difference is noticeable.
After you have finished painting, click on 100% again. The picture will return to its previous viewing size. See if there are any unpainted areas left somewhere. If everything is in order, you can save the photo. If anything needs to be improved, we return to the viewing scale of 200%, if necessary, move the slider up and down, left and right to see all areas of the image . In some places it is better to use a smaller brush. For example, processing the background next to the face (eyes-nose-chin).
II. But it happens that the brush remains small, despite the actions in the previous step. To fix this, you just need to make the photo smaller. Look, with the dimensions of my photo being 303 x 280 px, the brush is quite large and easy to work with:
With the original dimensions of 3700 x 3419 px, it is practically invisible, some white dot:
Therefore, when we see such a picture, we reduce the image. How to do this, see the next lesson No. 4 “”. In short, we do it like this: “Image” - “Image size” - in the window that opens, set new parameters.
Today we will learn how to create a white background in a photograph. Let's get started. First, let's load our photo into Photoshop. To do this, simply drag it, put a dot on Leave unchanged and select OK. Thanks to this, we still have a photo with the same dimensions. Now unlock the background, double-click on it and click OK.
Select the Quick Selection tool, which will allow us to very quickly select our object if it is located on a non-solid background. Hold down the Alt key and scroll the mouse to enlarge the photo. Let's zoom in to the entire brush.
To do this, click on the right curly brace, the brush will increase, and with the left curly bracket, the brush will decrease. Select our object. When you grab extra pieces, you can delete them by pressing the Alt key. A minus sign appears in the circle and we delete the excess selections. Here we make a selection right away so as not to edit it later. And let's add another selection to the end of our object.
Let's reduce it again. Let's remove this extra part. We had too much of it. Let's highlight the hands of our man. Try to be as careful as possible so as not to redo it a hundred times. If you see any protrusions, try to remove them immediately, because they are difficult to correct later. It's better to do everything at once. The main thing is to do everything accurately, so that in the end we have a beautiful person to learn from, against a clear background.
Let's highlight our face. Let's start highlighting the hair. They are located differently, it will be difficult to distinguish them. Next, let's make our photo smaller. Right-click on the selected area, the Menu window appears, select Refine Edge. Next, by default, we have the Refine Radius tool selected. We select the places where we should have hair, as we see, everything has stood out and small hairs have appeared. Let's make the picture smaller. Everything is fine here.
Now let's tweak it. We increase the smoothing a little so that there is a smoother flow. Feathering blurs the edge a little. The Shift Edge function increases or decreases our cutting, moving the edge down. We allocate a smaller volume, and a larger volume upwards.
The most important thing we will use now is increasing the contrast. Thanks to this, our hair and the rest of the part will be more clearly visible against a white background. As contrast increases, the gray color decreases and becomes more hair-like. Click OK. Next - Cut to a new layer. On the right side of the menu, click Hide. This results in an object like this.
Let's place the object on a white background. To do this, create a new layer and move it down. Select the Fill tool. Set the color to white and click on the background. The background, in turn, turned white. Now we have a person on a white background, we can move this person in different directions.
Many digital camera users have often thought about how to remove the background from a photo. A white background can be easily done in Photoshop, but it requires some skill to work with it.
Now we will tell you how to make a white background in a photo in different ways.
Without using Photoshop
We will use the PhotoFiltre program - it is perfect for those who do not want to explore the limitless possibilities of Photoshop due to lack of time. Go to the official website of the program, download and install it.
Launch PhotoFiltre with two mouse clicks and load the photo on which you want to make a white background (menu item “File”, and in it “Open” and select the image on your hard drive).
If the program is minimized, you can open it by clicking on the maximize window symbol (number one in the figure below).
You will see an image opened in the program. Now click on the button that is responsible for filling (in our example it is marked with the number two).
This is where the fun begins, as many opportunities open up before you.
The numbers below in the image indicate editing tools, which we will now describe in more detail.
To change the image viewing scale, click on the button marked with the number one. By clicking on it, you can select the image display scale.
To remove the frame around the perimeter of the photo, press the button marked with the number two.
At the very bottom of the program there is a list of photographs you are working with. This is very convenient if you process several graphic files at once (number three).
You can see the width and height of the processed photo in the window marked with the number four.
Now let's move on to the tool that we need now. It's called "Fill" and is marked with the number five in our screenshot. When you click on this tool, a window will open with settings for important parameters. Let's look at this function using a clear example.
At the top of the program, click on the “Service” tab and in the small menu that opens, click on the inscription “Customize”, and then form a black triangle using the left mouse button.
After these steps, a menu will appear in which you need to click on the “History” inscription, in which you set the number twenty (recommended), but you can experiment. This value determines your ability to cancel completed transactions, since the program does not provide a “Cancel” button. That is, when you set this parameter, you can go back twenty steps.
Now use the tools that are located in the right menu of the program that opens.
Click on the fill and set the color to white in the window that opens. To do this, click on the symbolic image of a white square (marked with the number two in the figure below), and then select a color from the proposed options.
Set tolerance and transparency settings.
To achieve the desired effect, select the tolerance parameters of twenty, thirty or seventy units, and set the transparency to one hundred percent.
Now hover your mouse over the image, select the desired fragment and press the left mouse button. In this case, the selected part will turn white, but that’s not all.
Repeat the above steps in the same way, selecting another place in the photo, and the area will also receive a white background.
If the photo adjustment went a little wrong (for example, an extra part of the image was colored), then click on the “Cancel” button and halve the tolerance parameter. After this, the person’s hat will not be affected and you will be able to correctly create a white background in the photo (as in our example).
How to make a white background in a photo in Photoshop
Making the background white in Photoshop is not at all difficult; now let’s look at the photo processing process in more detail.
You just need to open a photo with a background and do three simple operations.
In our example, we took a black and white image, but you can also process a color one in this way.
To obtain a perfectly even layer, you must first create a blank image with a white background.
On the right side of the program, in the lower right corner, you will see a layer that displays your image. To do this, right-click on the line of the layer with your photo and select “Create a duplicate layer”, then click “Yes” in the menu that appears.
As a result, you will have two layers on the right, between which you need to create a layer with a white fill. To achieve this, click on the “Create New Layer” menu button in Photoshop and place it between layers by dragging with the mouse.
Select the white color and simply move it with the mouse so that it is located between our previously created fields.
Now click on the topmost layer in the program and select the contours of the girl using the “Rectangular Lasso” tool (it is located in the left menu of the program). If it doesn’t work right away, try again, and if there are unnecessary elements left in the photo, clean them up using the Eraser tool. Also, for more precise selection, you can enlarge the image using a magnifying glass.
Another caveat is that if you increase the Smoothing setting by one point, the edges will be cut more softly.
After clicking the “Ok” button, the selected area must be inverted by pressing the CTRL+SHIFT+I key combination on the keyboard. Then click on the DEL button (“Delete”).
That's it! As you can see, nothing complicated!
How to make a white background in a photo in Photoshop - the second option
This is the easiest and fastest way. Launch the program and open a photo in it by simply dragging the mouse from Explorer into the program window.
Now select the “Eraser” tool from the menu on the left (but not the background one, otherwise you will get a transparent background, but we need a white one) and slowly carefully erase the background in the photo. Don’t worry if you erase something unnecessary - this action can always be canceled by clicking on the “Edit” menu item at the top and selecting the “Step back” line.
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