{"id":7161,"date":"2014-08-02T16:07:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T20:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2022-12-31T05:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T10:24:14","slug":"remove-background-photoshop-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/2014\/08\/remove-background-photoshop-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Tip: Know the Final Image Before You Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes the stage is not big enough for a performer. Similarly, sometimes the background is simply not big enough for a photographer! That is exactly why it is so important to know how the final image will look before you start!<\/p>\n

For a dance portfolio session with Cassie, I knew we wanted to capture her in motion; however, we needed to do so within a confined space.\u00a0 I included the original image below from a dance portfolio photo session. It is shown completely “as shot” and has not been cropped at all.<\/p>\n

We did not have access to a large dance stage for the session and needed to make it work with a standard paper background roll. This did not pose a problem for us because I knew exactly what I wanted the final images to look like. In this case, as long as the dancer was caught mid-air entirely in front of the paper, I knew I could easily extend the paper edges in Photoshop.<\/p>\n

In the second image below, you can see the processed image overlaid on the original image. I essentially removed all traces of the paper roll backdrop in Photoshop along three of the image edges – the top, bottom and left edges.<\/p>\n

In the third image, I cropped everything down to the final proportions (shown in the second image) and slightly rotated it to straighten it out.\u00a0 Unless you were there for the photo shoot (or I showed you the “before” image), you would not know it was shot with such limited space! What do you think of the final result? Please be sure to leave a comment below to share your thoughts and ideas on when to remove the background in Photoshop!<\/p>\n

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Sometimes the stage is not big enough for a performer. Similarly, sometimes the background is simply not big enough for a photographer! That is exactly why it is so important to know how the final image will look before you start! For a dance portfolio session with Cassie, I knew we wanted to capture her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[980,738,984,986,520,985,987,864,988],"sp_smart_badges":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-how-to","8":"tag-background","9":"tag-dance-portfolio","10":"tag-paper-background","11":"tag-photo-manipulation","12":"tag-photo-shoots","13":"tag-photoshop-examples","14":"tag-portfolio-photos","15":"tag-pro-tip","16":"tag-remove-background","17":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/remove-background-photoshop-example20120821-banner-600x317.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/remove-background-photoshop-example20120821-banner-600x317.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Paul Manoian","author_link":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/author\/manoian\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"sp_smart_badges","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sp_smart_badges?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}