How can I make the background black?

OGUL wrote on 11/22/2012, 10:26 AM

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10151214156852459&set=pb.616327458.-2207520000.1353601033&type=3&theater

Hi all,
the original photo is from GH2, jpeg and also raw.
With Corel Paint shop I added frame but I want that the white parts to be black??

Any way to achieve it by PNG files??

or masking in a similar with V10 / V11, without using Corel?

or any other ideas pls:)

Thanks in advance.

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Tom Pauncz wrote on 11/22/2012, 10:58 AM

Couldn't you have just added a black frame with Corel? Change the frame colour in Corel before applying it?

Otherwise, you might be able to it with Corel or Photoshop, by duplicating the layer, and in PS (I don't have Corel to try) use the Magic Wand to select all the white parts of the frame, delete it and then create a new fill layer below that layer in black.

Or you could try chromakey-ing in Vegas, but that would affect the other white portions of the picture.

Tom

john_dennis wrote on 11/22/2012, 11:22 AM

If you cut the areas you wish to replace to a transparent background you can put a colored or any other type of track under your photo on the Vegas timeline and it will show through.

Example

Read the description in the link. I used Photoshop with a png. It's likely Corel does a similar operation.

PS
Some of us don't have any friends so we don't have a reason to have a facebook account. We can't see your content.

Tech Diver wrote on 11/22/2012, 11:50 AM

I too don't have a Facebook account (and never will) despite the fact that I am a computer scientist / engineer. You might want to look into something like Dropbox instead.

Peter

rs170a wrote on 11/22/2012, 11:56 AM

Interestingly enough, you don't need a Facebook account to see the image.
Copy and paste the link and you'll see it.
I loaded it into Photoshop and tried to select only the white areas but the problem is all the feathering that's been done to it makes it very difficult.
If Corel Paint allows you to do layers like Photoshop does, add a layer of solid black beneath the image and then remove what you want to remove from the original image.
Alternatively, if you have a PNG, PSD or TGA of it (so that the white is transparent), that would be a lot easier to deal with in Photoshop.

Mike

john_dennis wrote on 11/22/2012, 12:07 PM

I copied and pasted the link, but got diverted to a facebook logon screen. Perhaps, you have had Windows remember yours.