How to get rid of a
Background Of A Picture
How to Remove Background from Picture
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hi everyone kevin here today 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
so you can do something that looks like
this
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yeah i just completely removed the
background from my photo and now i could
do whatever i want with that picture i
could insert it into a word document an
email a powerpoint presentation
or i could 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
did you know if you're on windows 7 or
on windows 8
you can upgrade to windows 10 entirely
for free
i have a link in the description if
you're interested in doing that
i have a photo up on my desktop and i'd
like to get rid of this background i
just want to cut out this picture of
myself
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
this will open up the paint 3d app 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
here's my 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
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
photo selected
you can click on magic select over on
the right hand side
i'm going to click on magic select over
here next
i see a rectangle appear around my photo
and i need to drag the corners around
the object that i want to remove from
the photo 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 but it's pretty close
you'll see in the photo that my hair is
missing and i definitely want hair to be
included
i don't want to go bald so i'm going to
click on add over on the right hand
side and i'm going to zoom in on my
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 it missed a
little bit of it it's pretty close to
the background
so here too i'm simply going to drag an
ad 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 check box that says
auto autofill 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 back of where i'm standing
i want to auto fill 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
could 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
now with my image here i can now use
this anywhere
i could press ctrl c to copy or i 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
paint 3d now shows up in powerpoint and
i can adjust the size of this
i'm now in microsoft word and just like
in powerpoint i could press ctrl v
and here i pasted myself into my word
document 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 like 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 save
just
myself without the background well let
me copy myself
again i'm going to go up to menu in the
top left hand corner and click on new
it asks me if i want to save my work 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
could go up to menu
i could 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 whether it's a png
a jpeg a 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 and save it
kevin transparent background sounds good
now i'm going to click on save
here now you'll see on my desktop i have
a new file for kevin 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.net and i'll show you
in a moment how you can get that
paint.net is by far one of my favorite
image editing apps it's completely free
to download and to 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 it even has some more
advanced functionality on the paint.net
or the getpaint.net website
click on the download link for paint.net
and go through the install process
once you finish installing paint.net
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.net 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
now i could go up to the left hand
corner click on file
save as 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 of 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 i'm back
here on the desktop and you can see the
difference between these two images
over on the left is the image that i
saved in paint.net
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.net
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. if this video helped show you how
you can remove a background from an
image
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today i hope you enjoyed and
i hope to see you next time bye
you
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