How to Change Photo Background with Paint (100% Successful)

When going to take care of any document, of course we are often required to bring photos with a predetermined color background. And the colors that are often used as backgrounds are white, red, and blue.

Not only useful for making a number of formal documents, photos with a color background are also often used to make job applications and Curiculum Vitae (CV).

Therefore, photos with various background colors are indispensable in our lives. For that we have to provide some photos with some background colors. To change the background color of a photo, we can use the Paint application on the computer, the following is an explanation.

How to Change Photo Background with Paint

Paint is a software application that is designed simply and is included in the Windows operating system. Microsoft Paint is useful for creating and editing an image.

This Paint application is also made very simple, so this application is very easy to use.

And in this article, we will explain how to change the background (photo background using Microsoft Paint. Here are the steps on how to change the photo background with Paint:

1. The first thing you can do is open the Microsoft Paint application on your computer. To open it, you can search for it in the search field on your computer by typing the word Paint. After that you click the Paint application. And here is a picture of the Microsoft Paint application.

2. Then you can click the file on the toolbar above and click Open. After that, your computer file box will appear, then you can choose the image you want to change the background.

3. The photo you previously selected will appear in the Paint application. The next step you can click Select, on the Select menu it will present several options. You can click Free-form selection. You can see the image below.

4. The next stage you have to select the background contained in your photo. You have to do it very carefully, and select it as neatly as possible. Try to have to match the start point and end point when you select the photo.

To select it, you can left click on the mouse and hold it, then you can move the mouse according to the background border in your photo. If so, then the results of your photo will be like below.

5. Then you can click the paint can icon and choose the color you want. This time I used red. The result will be like in the image below.

6. To tidy up the remaining edges of the background that is not smoothly selected, you can do this step. First you have to click the icon Brushes and then choose a background color, then you can cover the background that is not selected by sweeping it.

7. After editing using Brushes. The following is a photo that has been edited. Suggest to enlarge the image to make it easier to reach the part that still leaves the old photo background.

That’s how to change the background of a photo using Microsoft Paint. Hopefully with the above methods can make you understand and easily change the background color on your photos.

And hopefully the tutorial on how to change the photo background with Paint above can be useful for you and also be your reference in editing photo backgrounds. Because this method is very easy for a beginner to do.

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