4+ How to Edit & Change Photo Background on HP / PC

The use of passport photos is usually only for formal matters, for example on diplomas, certificates, and letters or other official certificates. In addition, often a passport photo is also used as a requirement that must be attached to applying for a job. One other characteristic of the passport photo is that the background used is only 2 colors, namely red and blue.

The use of color in the background of this photo is done as a reference for the year of birth of the photo owner. In general, photo owners born on odd year must use background coloured Red.

On the other hand, if you were born on even year then have to use blue background. However, sometimes these provisions change or are not appropriate depending on the place and area of ​​use so that eventually they have to change the background color. Initially red to blue and vice versa.

Such trivial things can certainly be circumvented without having to take another photo or even ask the editor for help. Currently, there are many software or applications available for editing photos, including changing the background color.

How to Change Photo Background Via Android Phone

1. Using the Cut Cut Application

The Cut Cut application allows you to change and edit the background as you wish. There are many things that can be explored with this application, such as adjusting the brightness and contrast of the image, adding text to the image and so on.

1. Install the app Cut Cut through the Play Store.

2. When finished, open the application and select the scissors icon as indicated by the arrow.

3. If you get a notification like this, just click it Allow / Allow.

4. Click cross X in the top right corner of the app.

5. Select the photo you want to change the background.

6. The body area will automatically be selected. Suppose there are body parts that have not been selected, you can select them manually. Click button tick when you have finished selecting.

7. There are several tools that you need to pay attention to as well, such as:

• Number 1 : Undo, the command used to undo a command that has been done previously.
• Number 2 : Redo, the opposite of Undo which is to repeat orders that have been canceled previously.

8. Next you need to add the desired background, here there are 3 options, namely On line, Unsplash and Gallery. Here we choose Gallery.

9. Oh yes, first you have to download the background image, here I have prepared 3 backgrounds that I just downloaded and are located in the folder Download.

10. If you feel you are finished, please click the button Save.

11. Photo files that have been edited / changed the background are usually stored in a folder Camera. However, the location may be different from yours, you can search for it manually in the Gallery.

2. Using the Background Eraser

This application is very light, the size is not up to 5MB. But even so, this application has a limited function, which is only used to change the background of images and photos to become transparent.

1. Install the app Background Eraser through the Play Store.

2. When finished, open the application then select Load a photo.

3. If you get a notification like this, just click it Allow / Allow.

4. To make it easier for you to find the photo you want to edit the background, click line three which is located on the top left of the application.

5. Then select Gallery.

6. Select the desired photo and crop the photo as needed. After that, click the button Done.

7. Then delete the part of the photo that is not needed by using eraser button as indicated by the arrow.

There are several tools that you need to pay attention to as well, such as:

• Number 1 : Undo, the command used to undo a command that has been done previously.
• Number 2 : Redo, the opposite of Undo which is to repeat orders that have been canceled previously.

8. If the photo background has become transparent, then click the sign tick.

9. Finally click the button Save.

3. How to Use MagiCut

Similar to Cut Cut, besides being used to change and edit image / photo backgrounds, this application can also be used as an editor. How to use MagiCut to change photo background? Let’s see more below

1. Install the app MagiCut through the Play Store.

2. When finished, open the application and select CutOut (scissors icon) as indicated by the arrow.

3. If you get a notification like this, click cross X on the left of the application. Then select the photo you want to edit the background for.

4. Carefully select the required body area, for example as shown below. When finished selecting the body area, click the check button GO.

5. The result will be like this. Then click the button tick.

6. If you get a notification like this, select No.

7. Now we need to click Background to change the background according to our wishes.

8. There are 3 main options for background selection, including:

• Number 1 : Choose a background from your HP Gallery.
• Number 2 : Choose a transparent background (default).
• Number 3 : Choose a background with a solid color such as blue, red, green and others.

9. Here we try the third option because I want to change the background color to blue.

10. Select the desired color, for example I chose blue. Next select Confirm.

11. Later the results are more or less like this. If it feels right, click tick as indicated by the arrow.

12. Last click Upload button to save it. Generally, files that have been successfully edited will be saved in the folder MyWorks in your HP Gallery.

How to Change Photo Background Via Laptop and PC

On this occasion we will review a tutorial on how to change the photo background via a laptop / PC with the help of Adobe Photoshop 6. You don’t have to use Photoshop version 6, you can use the version below, the menu is the same and not much different.

1. The first step that must be done is that you open and run Adobe Photoshop and wait for a window like the one below to appear (in some versions above including Adobe Photoshop 6 it may take a long time).

2. You enter the photo to be edited by pressing CTRL + O or by selecting menu File then click Open then select the photo you want. Another way that can be done is to click on the photo and hold it then navigate to the Adobe Photoshop work area.

3. After the photo is successfully inserted, the first thing you have to do is copy the layer with CTRL + J.

4. Next navigate to Layer 1 that has been made and select the menu Image then Adjustment then select Replace Color, here is the most important part to change the photo background.

5. On the menu Replace Color you choose Eyedropper Tool then point to the background, then automatically all blue colors will be selected, on Result select the replacement color you want.

6. If there is still a faint red color left, do the same thing, but don’t use it this time Eyedropper Tool instead use Add To Sample which is right next to it. After feeling appropriate click OK.

7. If there is a color change other than the background (it could be on the face or clothes) use the Eraser and erase it slowly. This is the purpose of copying layers that were previously done. In this case, the photos that we use are of purer quality and the blue color is only in the background, so there will be no color changes other than the background.

Before and after the background is changed

Basically the function of Replace Color is to replace one same color in one file. Therefore, this tool is perfect for changing the background color of the photo. That’s a tutorial on how to change the background of a photo with Photoshop. Hopefully useful and easy to understand.

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