How to remove an image’s background using preview on macos

Можно извлечь часть изображения. Например, можно выбрать лицо определенного человека на групповой фотографии и вставить его в другое место.

Если фон изображения состоит из областей примерно одного цвета, можно также удалить фон.

Извлечение изображения

В приложении «Просмотр» на Mac нажмите кнопку «Показать панель инструментов разметки» (если панель инструментов разметки не отображается), нажмите меню «Инструменты выбора» , затем выберите инструмент «Смарт-лассо» .

Обведите края изображения, которое необходимо извлечь.

Убедитесь, что изображение находится в пределах жирной границы, появляющейся при обведении.

Соедините конец и начало границы или отпустите кнопку мыши, чтобы соединить конечную точку с началом границы прямой линией.

Выполните одно из следующих действий:

Копирование изображения, чтобы его можно было вставить в документ. Выберите «Правка» > «Копировать».

Удаление всех частей вне выбранной области. Нажмите «Обрезать» или выберите «Правка» > «Инвертировать выбранное», затем нажмите клавишу Delete.

Извлечение страницы из PDF-файла с преобразованием в изображение

Вы можете выбрать область изображения, открытого в приложении «Просмотр», а затем скопировать ее и вставить в другое место. Можно также обрезать окружающее содержимое, оставив только выбранную область. Если изображение находится внутри файла PDF, то перед использованием инструментов разметки изображений нужно извлечь страницу из файла PDF в формат изображения.

В приложении «Просмотр» на Mac откройте файл PDF, выберите меню «Вид» > «Миниатюры», затем выберите страницу в боковом меню миниатюр.

Нажмите «Файл» > «Экспортировать», введите имя, добавьте тег (если нужно) и укажите, где сохранить файл.

Откройте всплывающее меню «Формат» и выберите формат изображения (например, PNG).

Удаление фона изображения

В приложении «Просмотр» на Mac нажмите кнопку «Показать панель инструментов разметки» (если панель инструментов разметки не отображается), затем нажмите кнопку «Функция прозрачности» (или воспользуйтесь панелью Touch Bar).

Проведите указателем по фрагменту фона.

Приложение «Просмотр» выбирает область, по которой Вы провели указателем, и все соседние пиксели такого же цвета.

Чтобы удалить выбранную область, нажмите клавишу Delete.

Чтобы удалить весь фон, кроме выбранной области, выберите «Правка» > «Инвертировать выбранное» и нажмите клавишу Delete.

Повторяйте шаги 2 и 3, пока не получите необходимое изображение.

If you have an image or PDF file open in Preview, and you want to delete it, here’s the fast way. Just drag the image of the page you want to delete from the drawer into the trash — Preview moves the file to trash and then the Preview window closes. This is useful when viewing PDFs from the web, or alternatively a group of images and you decide you dont want one you can drag it to the trash.

[robg adds: If you open only one image, the drawer will probably be hidden; just click the Drawer icon in the toolbar to show it. This trick is very handy when you’re viewing a number of images; when you drag one of many to the trash, it just vanishes from the drawer (and the hard drive), and you can go back to reviewing the remainder of the pictures.]

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Additionally if you want to open this image in another application (like Photoshop) just drag the image from the drawer to target application icon.

On my laptop, the operation is “cmd” and drag. Simply dragging to the trash does not work.

My comments that “cmd-drag to trash” were wrong; this sends the entire pdf file to the trash.

Still, dragging from preview drawer to trash does not work for me.

Drag from Preview’s drawer to the Trash. wow, you can do that?

There’s a thread on another discussion forum asking, “What is it with Apples?” Likely started by a troll, it rapidly turned into a bunch of stories about why people think the Mac rocks. More than a few people mentioned that if you want to try something new, just try it, and it’ll probably work.

Looks like this is another one of those things! I’ll have to mention it there.

Well, I don’t think you need the drawer, just use the “proxy icon” in the title bar?

Nope, in many apps you can’t drag a proxy icon into the trash. I’m not sure why, it works anywhere else.

Which one of the files represented in the drawer does the proxy icon refer to?

This doesn’t work, as others have pointed out. Nothing is deposited into the trash. Surely you could have tested that out before posting? :p LOL

Life. don’t talk to me about life.

rhowell: The “proxy icon” is the one in the title bar at the top of the window.

PCheese: I’d also like to know why this doesn’t work. It makes perfect sense, certainly more than the way dragging one page from the drawer trashes the whole file.

I guess this is a normal behaviour for any app with a drawer, as BBEdit does the same thing.

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Sometimes tips on this site can be pretty obscure and geeky, but tips like this one remind me why I find this place such a great resource. This is such a time saver! Finally, a way to easily bin all the pdf files that appear in my download folder. Thanks, jsb99!

Life. don’t talk to me about life.

Drag the drawer image to the desktop or a folder and it copies the file to that location; cmd-opt-drag and it creates an alias in that location.

I’ve been wishing for a way to do something like this for downloaded pdfs via Safari, but this is even better!

This is really interesting!
I’m curious, I didn’t see anything in the hints, is there a way to make preview more powerful? Some things it doesn’t seem to know how to preview and others I’d like to expand. I’ve done a tad of checking on apple.com for preview and haven’t found any info.

This is cool, but I have to say I’m still missing some of the key drag-and-drop features from OS9. Both of these worked in OS9, but do not work in OSX:

1) open browser
2) drag an image to the photoshop application (i.e. in the dock)

EXPECT: in OS9 that image just opened in Photoshop.

3) open any other image in photoshop
4) leave the photoshop image open in the background, and go to a web browser
5) drag an image onto the the photoshop window

EXPECT: in OS9 that image would show up as a new layer in the Photoshop file.

NOTE: In OSX, you have to dump everything somewhere first (like the desktop) or Right click and “copy image” or something else tricky. Kinda a pain, and even though I’ve been on OSX for 2 years now, I still find myself accidently trying to make these work, and then having to backtrack.

You can extract part of an image. For example, you can extract one person’s face from a group photo and then paste the face elsewhere.

If an image’s background consists of areas that are mainly the same color, you can also remove the background.

Extract an image

In the Preview app on your Mac, click the Show Markup Toolbar button (if the Markup toolbar isn’t showing), click the Selection Tools menu , then choose the Smart Lasso tool .

Trace the edge of the image you want to extract.

Make sure the image’s edge is within the thick border that appears as you trace.

Connect the end of the border back to its beginning, or stop dragging to connect the border in a straight line back to the beginning.

Do one of the following:

To copy the image so that you can paste it in a document: Choose Edit > Copy.

To remove everything outside of your selection: Click Crop or choose Edit > Invert Selection, then press Delete.

Extract a PDF page as an image

You can select part of an image opened in Preview, then copy and paste it elsewhere or crop the content surrounding it. If the image is in a PDF, you need to extract the PDF page as an image before you can use the image markup tools.

In the Preview app on your Mac, open the PDF file, choose View > Thumbnails, then select the page in the thumbnail sidebar.

Click File > Export, type a name, add a tag (optional), then choose where you want to save it.

Click the Format pop-up menu and choose an image format (such as PNG).

Remove the background from an image

In the Preview app on your Mac, click the Show Markup Toolbar button (if the Markup toolbar isn’t showing), then click the Instant Alpha button (or use the Touch Bar).

Drag over part of the background.

Preview selects the area you dragged over and any pixels adjacent to it that have the same colors.

To delete the selected area, press Delete.

To delete everything outside the selected area, choose Edit > Invert Selection, then press Delete.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you have the image you want.

You can extract part of an image. For example, you can extract one person’s face from a group photo and then paste the face elsewhere.

If an image’s background consists of areas that are mainly the same color, you can also remove the background.

Extract an image

In the Preview app on your Mac, click the Show Markup Toolbar button (if the Markup toolbar isn’t showing), click the Selection Tools menu , then choose the Smart Lasso tool .

Trace the edge of the image you want to extract.

Make sure the image’s edge is within the thick border that appears as you trace.

Connect the end of the border back to its beginning, or stop dragging to connect the border in a straight line back to the beginning.

Do one of the following:

To copy the image so that you can paste it in a document: Choose Edit > Copy.

To remove everything outside of your selection: Click Crop or choose Edit > Invert Selection, then press Delete.

Extract a PDF page as an image

You can select part of an image opened in Preview, then copy and paste it elsewhere or crop the content surrounding it. If the image is in a PDF, you need to extract the PDF page as an image before you can use the image markup tools.

In the Preview app on your Mac, open the PDF file, choose View > Thumbnails, then select the page in the thumbnail sidebar.

Click File > Export, type a name, add a tag (optional), then choose where you want to save it.

Click the Format pop-up menu and choose an image format (such as PNG).

Remove the background from an image

In the Preview app on your Mac, click the Show Markup Toolbar button (if the Markup toolbar isn’t showing), then click the Instant Alpha button (or use the Touch Bar).

Drag over part of the background.

Preview selects the area you dragged over and any pixels adjacent to it that have the same colors.

To delete the selected area, press Delete.

To delete everything outside the selected area, choose Edit > Invert Selection, then press Delete.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you have the image you want.

You can extract part of an image. For example, you can extract one person’s face from a group photo and then paste the face elsewhere.

If an image’s background consists of areas that are mainly the same color, you can also remove the background.

Extract an image

In the Preview app on your Mac, click the Show Markup Toolbar button (if the Markup toolbar isn’t showing), click the Selection Tools menu , then choose the Smart Lasso tool .

Trace the edge of the image you want to extract.

Make sure the image’s edge is within the thick border that appears as you trace.

Connect the end of the border back to its beginning, or stop dragging to connect the border in a straight line back to the beginning.

Do one of the following:

To copy the image so that you can paste it in a document: Choose Edit > Copy.

To remove everything outside of your selection: Click Crop or choose Edit > Invert Selection, then press Delete.

Extract a PDF page as an image

You can select part of an image opened in Preview, then copy and paste it elsewhere or crop the content surrounding it. If the image is in a PDF, you need to extract the PDF page as an image before you can use the image markup tools.

In the Preview app on your Mac, open the PDF file, choose View > Thumbnails, then select the page in the thumbnail sidebar.

Click File > Export, type a name, add a tag (optional), then choose where you want to save it.

Click the Format pop-up menu and choose an image format (such as PNG).

Remove the background from an image

In the Preview app on your Mac, click the Show Markup Toolbar button (if the Markup toolbar isn’t showing), then click the Instant Alpha button (or use the Touch Bar).

Drag over part of the background.

Preview selects the area you dragged over and any pixels adjacent to it that have the same colors.

To delete the selected area, press Delete.

To delete everything outside the selected area, choose Edit > Invert Selection, then press Delete.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you have the image you want.

If you’ve ever tried to create graphics on your Mac (and you don’t know Photoshop), you may have run across the problem of an image being set on a background that you need to remove. The awesome Preview program, which is within your Mac’s Applications folder, can help!

Here’s an example: I’m trying to place this icon onto a blue background to use in some instructions, but because it’s got a white background of its own, it looks pretty unprofessional.

Yuck. Let’s fix that!

What you’ll do first is open your image in Preview. For the most part, this just means you’ll double-click on the file; by default, image types like JPEGs will open with that program. (And if that didn’t work, use the “Open With” feature I mentioned in this tip.)

Once Preview opens, if you don’t see the toolbar with the “Instant Alpha” magic-wand icon, click on the “Markup” button to reveal it.

Then the toolbar will show up, and you can use that “Instant Alpha” option.

This next part requires a little bit of finesse. You’ll click and drag within the background of your image, and as you drag further, Preview will select more and more and will highlight it in pink as you go.

Because Preview uses color similarity to determine what to select as you drag, this feature is ideal for removing backgrounds that contrast well with the central image. If you try to get rid of some green grass that surrounds a green plant, you’re…well, you’re not going to have an easy go of it, let’s put it that way. That’d be “taking a class in Photoshop” time.

Anyway, once you’re satisfied that your dragging has grabbed the part of the image you’d like to get rid of, let go of your mouse or trackpad button, and Preview will select what you highlighted.

If you get it wrong, just click and drag again to re-select.

Next, tap the Delete key on your keyboard to remove the selected portion (and if you’re not working with a file that’s already in PNG format, you’ll have to convert it).

Hey! That looks much better now.

Another nifty option instead of deleting the background would be to choose Edit > Invert Selection to select everything except what you highlighted.

If you then tap “Delete,” it’ll leave the background and remove the image. I can see where this would be useful, but it sure wasn’t here.

Lovely!

In any case, I’ve got my clipped-out icon, and pasting it on that colored background shown in my first screenshot looks much nicer.

The System Preferences icon is on blue now! For some reason that was important! Hey, I wanted to look all cool and like I knew what I was doing with graphics and stuff. I’m not so good at pretending.

It’s extremely easy to make an image transparent with the help of Preview app, the built-in image editing app that comes along with all Macs with Mac OS X. Do note creating transparent PNG or GIF images this way works best on images with uniform colors in the area you want to become transparent. The more complicated the image and color variation, the more work you will need to do with the alpha tool to make a portion of the image transparent.

How to Make a Transparent Image on Mac with Preview

You can turn any image transparent with Preview, though you’ll find the resulting image must be saved as an image format that supports transparency.

1. Open the image in Preview
2. Click the Toolbox icon in the toolbar of Preview app to reveal the image editing tools

• For earlier Mac OS X Preview versions: Click the little pen icon in the toolbar to reveal the image editing tools

Select the “Instant Alpha” tool, which looks like a magic wand in the Editing Tools menu bar (in earlier Preview versions it is contained under the Selection pulldown menu if the image is smaller than certain widths)

Click and hold on the part of the image you want to turn transparent, and while still holding move the cursor up or down to either select more or less of the image to turn transparent – anything that is red is what will become transparent

To get the finer details transparent it can help to zoom in and out of the image using Command+Plus and Command+Minus keys.

If the original file was a PNG or GIF and you are satisfied you can just save as usual, but in a lot of cases you may not want to overwrite the original file. Instead, you can save the newly transparent image as a copy by using “Export” or “Save As”.

Exporting the Image as a Transparent PNG or GIF

PNG files are much higher quality than GIF, and for most uses you’ll want to use a transparent PNG, but we’ll cover both how to create and save as either transparent GIF or PNG anyway.

Saving a Transparent PNG

• Go to File and choose “Export”
• Select “PNG” from the pulldown menu, and check the box next to “Alpha” to insure the image maintains it’s transparency
• Save as usual, maintain the .png file extension

Saving as Transparent GIF

• Go to File and select “Export”, then Option-click on the file formats menu to reveal “GIF” as an option
• Check the box for “Alpha” to preserve the image transparency, then save as usual with a .gif extension

Because you’ll need to perform manual adjustments with the alpha tool, this would not work on a group of files, though you could batch convert them ahead of time to PNG or GIF, then open each individually to make them transparent.

The video below walks through the process of turning an image into a transparent version of itself, including cleaning up areas that didn’t get immediately grabbed by the alpha tool by using zoom. This is demonstrated in an earlier version of Preview where the Editing Tools button was the Pen rather than the modern Toolbox icon, otherwise all else is the same:

You can make transparent images in Preview for Mac with nearly any version of the app this way, whether you’re in a modern macOS release, or an earlier Mac OS X version, the Preview app can create transparent gifs and transparent PNG files easily. Just remember to look for the Toolbox button in modern Preview versions and the Pen button in earlier Preview releases.

Anyone who has medium familiarity with Adobe Photoshop has probably discovered the usefulness of the Magic Wand tool that has resided in the standard toolbar since version 0.87. The tool is used to select pixels based on their color within a range (Tolerance) that can be set by the user.

Beginning with OS X Leopard, Apple has incorporated a variant of the Magic Wand into the Mac OS Component app known as Preview. Dubbed Instant Alpha, it is similar in function and is used for removing specific components of a photograph as when removing a background to isolate a subject.

The Hidden Tool

With OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), Instant Alpha now is hidden away in its own toolbar and nested within with a group of selection tools. Access is to the tool is gained by first clicking on the Show Edit Toolbar button shown above. The Edit Toolbar will display beneath the default toolbar revealing several useful tools, the Selection Tools button among them (see above). You can either: a) click and hold that button for a pop-up menu of all the selection tools, or, b) stretch the width of the Preview window causing the selection tools to line up side-by-side in the lower toolbar. Providing you are viewing an image and not a pdf, you will be able to use any of the tools in this menu (otherwise they will be grayed out, indicating that they are not available for use with pdf files).

NOTE: All of the tools in Preview use the same cross-shaped cursor (+). There is no indication of which tool you are using once you’ve made your selection in the toolbar.

Background Removal

Start by clicking and holding inside of any group of pixels you wish to remove. Dragging away from the click point in any direction increases the size of the selection based on the similarity of adjacent pixels. The selection will display in real-time as a transparent, red mask. When you release the mouse, the mask changes to show the “marching ants” around the area that will be removed. Clicking the Delete key will remove the selected pixels and leave an area of transparency.

Tips & Caveats

• In most cases you will be making multiple selections and deletions in order to remove the entire background – surroundings are rarely that simple.
• The more complex the background is, the more difficult it will be to remove. In extreme cases it you may save time with the Lasso Selection Tool or the Smart Lasso Tool making a selection around the component you are isolating. Then, rather than deleting from the photo, you would use copy and paste, placing your subject into a new file. Here’s an example:

As you can see, expanding the selection of the lavender plant in the background includes some of the subject because of the low contrast.

• The best images for isolating subjects are those with the greatest contrast between the background and the subject. Otherwise, Instant Alpha will not be able to differentiate between the subject’s pixels and those belonging to the background. Another example:

Here the subject and the surrounding sand are completely different in color and contrast so the Instant Alpha tool makes quick work of selecting the background for deletion.

• Preview is not Photoshop. Although extremely capable, don’t expect this free, lightweight app to perform like a $700 powerhouse. Preview will get you only so far (further with extreme patience), but you may find yourself quickly defeated if your expectations are too high. For example, Preview does not allow for adding non-contiguous selections to an existing one.
• There are only two things you can do with a selection in Preview: delete or copy (for pasting into another document or application). Using the Adjust Color palette only affects the entire image – there is no way to isolate the adjustments to a selection (as is possible in Photoshop).

Keeping these caveats in mind, Preview is a very handy tool for kicking out a quick edit for web or email display, or to save time (and money) over using software like Photoshop, especially if your normal workflow doesn’t require professional image editing capabilities.

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Blur Photo Background

1. Blur Photo Background

• 1.1 Blur Image Background
• 1.2 Blur Image Background on Windows
• 1.3 Blur Image Background on Mac
• 1.4 Blur Background in Lightroom Classic
• 1.5 Blur Photo Background with Photo Editor
• 1.6 Blur Part of a Picture
• 1.7 Create Blurred Background Effects

2. Fix Blurry Photos

• 2.1 Enhance a Blurry Photo
• 2.2 Fix Grainy Photos
• 2.3 Fix Blurry Pictures
• 2.4 Make a Blurry Picture Clear
• 2.5 Fix Out of Focus Photos
• 2.6 How to Deblur Photos
• 2.7 Remove Blur from Image

3. Blur Photo Editors

• 3.1 Online Tools to Blur Image Background
• 3.2 iOS Apps to Blur Photo Background
• 3.3 Android Apps to Blur Photo Background

4. Blurry Photo Fixers

• 4.1 Blurry Photo Fixers
• 4.2 Blur Frame Photo Editor
• 4.3 Blur Photo Editor
• 4.4 Apps to Fix Blurry Pictures
• 4.5 Deblur Software & Websites

Blur can often make photos more aesthetically pleasing, which is why it is commonly featured in all programs for photo editing. Blurring the background of an image can help you highlight the objects in the foreground, but the blur effect can also be used to cover parts of the image you don’t want others to see.

If you are using a Mac OS and you are looking for a quick and easy way to blur the photo background you have a plethora of options available to you and in this article, we will show you how you can effortlessly apply this effect to your photos. After blurring the background of the images, you’ll be able to use the slideshow maker program to make a photo slideshow with these photos for sharing on social sharing websites, or saving on your computer for an enjoyment.

• Enables you to apply more than 200 effects to your photos to make them better.
• Crop or cut pictures to the size to meet any of your need.
• Help you to remove any unwanted objects from your photos.
• Allow you to use the Creative Blur to refocus your photos in a click.

How to blur the image background on Mac OS with built-in apps?

Each Mac OS version released in the last twenty years has featured an app that provides at least basic photo editing tools. Let’s have a look at some of the built-in apps that will enable you to blur image backgrounds on your photos.

1. Using the Retouch tool in Photos App

This is probably the most powerful tool in the Photos app because it literally allows you to remove or replace any pixel in your photo. In order to be able to use it, you must have Mac OS X installed on your computer since older versions don’t offer this remarkable tool.

Open the photo in the Photos app, and then click on the Edit button located in the app’s toolbar. Click R to start using the Retouch tool, and then zoom into the area of the photo you want to blur. The chances are that your photo already contains some blur so in order to blur the background of your image, simply click on the blurred area to clone the blurred pixels and then drag the cursor over the area of the photo you want to blur.

2. Blur Image background in iPhoto

All you need to do to blur an image background in iPhoto is open the photo in this app. Once the picture is displayed right-click on it and select the Edit option to choose whether you want to preview the image in Full Screen or regular mode. Click on the Effects button and select the ‘Edge Blur’ feature.

You can adjust the blur level on a scale from 1 to 11, depending on how much blur you want to apply, and once you click OK, the background of your image will be blurred.

3. Blur Image background in Preview App

Even though the Preview app doesn’t provide blur effects that will enable you to blur the image background, you can still use it to blur or delete parts of the picture you don’t want others to see.

In order to accomplish this you must first select the area of the image you want to blur, and then you should head over to Edit menu. Click on the Delete option and the app will remove the area of the image you selected. This may not be the most elegant solution, but it will enable you to blur the image background within seconds.

How to blur the image background on Mac OS with third-party software

Mac OS provides support for a large number of different image editing programs that will enable you to blur the background of your photo in just a few clicks. Fotor photo editor is available for both Mac and Windows OS, while people who don’t want to go through the trouble of downloading and installing this software can also use the online version of Fotor.

The online version of Fotor is stacked with powerful image editing features that will enable you to manipulate your photos in any way you want. If you want to blur the image background of an image using this photo editing tool, you’ll be able to choose from a large number of different blur effects.

Once you arrive at Fotor’s home page, import the photo into the editor and click on the Effects icon located in the toolbar on the left side of your screen. You can then proceed to browse through the effects library and select the blur effect you like the most.

We recommend Tilt Shift effect because it is the most effective way to blur the image background. You can choose whether you want to apply the effect in the Circular or Linear manner and you can adjust the Size and Intensity sliders to fine-tune your photo.

Hit Apply once you’ve blurred the image background and click on the Save icon. Choose the file name and type and then click on the Download button to save the photo to the hard-drive on your Mac.

Conclusion

Blurring the background of an image is usually a simple process that allows you to create pictures that will impress their viewers, and each method we described in this article can be used to quickly apply the blur effect to your photos.

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Tutorials

How to remove backgound from image for Mac with Super PhotoCut

Learn the basics of image background removal for Mac with Super PhotoCut: how to apply the red/green marks, and how to deal with some common pitfalls.

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Remove.bg for Windows/Mac/Linux is a software that you can drag images into and it removes the background from these images. You can drag images or even whole folders of images from anywhere on your computer and define yourself where to save the background-free images in the settings. You can also pick a background color and size which will be applied to all images.

Images are processed through the remove.bg API, which requires an active Internet connection and an API key (to be found in your account settings).

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Preview is the default application for opening images on Mac computers. You may be surprised to learn that Preview comes with some hidden photo editing tools. These are not as powerful as what you would find in Photoshop or other paid programs, but they are all that the average photo editor needs to tune up their photos or add black and white/sepia effects.

Use Mac’s Preview App to Adjust the Color of Your Images

1. Open a photo in Preview, and then open up the Markup Toolbar by clicking the toolbox icon from the main toolbar. Next, click the adjust color icon to open the adjust color panel.

2. First, try clicking the Auto Levels button beneath the graph in the adjust color panel. This typically brings some improvement to your image coloring, and sometimes it is all you need.

3. The top four sliders control lighting.

Exposure: Make all the pixels in your photo lighter or darker

Contrast: Increasing the contrast will simultaneously make the whites whiter and the blacks blacker, while decreasing the contrast will move them towards equilibrium.

Highlights: Make the white areas of your photos more or less intense

Shadows: Make the dark areas of your photos more or less intense

4. The next four sliders control color.

Saturation:Increases or decreases the vividness of all the colors in your image. Sliding the saturation all the way to the left will result in a black and white image.

Temperature: Affects the overall tone of the photo by making it appear warmer (more red tones) or cooler (more blue tones)

Tint: This fixes color cast (such as light reflected from grass and plants) by adding or removing green hues. There is an eyedropper tool next to the tint option that lets you set the white point of your image, which is very helpful for correcting tints.

Sepia: Slide to the right to add a sepia effect to your image.

5. The last slider controls image sharpness. This basically controls the transitions within the image. Decreasing this slider will soften your image, while increasing it will make make the transitions more pronounced. Moving too far in either direction will make your image look unrealistic.

6. If you do not like the changes you have made, you can click command-Z to undo your recent edits, or click the reset all button at the bottom of the adjust color panel to revert back to the original image.

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If you want to quickly remove the background of an image, you don’t need to download a third-party photo editing app to do it. The Preview app on your Mac is perfect for removing backgrounds from images. It would be wonderful if we could all be good at photo editing. But since we’re not, the experts provide us with tools that make image editing a little easier. The Preview app on Mac isn’t the best option for editing photos, but it works for basic things. The best thing about the Preview app is probably the familiar interface, despite being so versatile. So even if you are new to macOS, getting familiar with this image/PDF viewer is never a big question.

There can be a variety of reasons why you need to do the above task. Some may use it for projects, while others like me may use these images in articles. Along those lines, there are some pretty nifty tools you could use. However, while some apps are paid, others require a steep learning curve. This is where the Mac preview app comes in. It includes a pretty nifty tool that allows you to make any image transparent.

How to remove background from images with Preview on Mac

Not only the ability to erase backgrounds, but also the ability to support various image extensions makes this app the best choice. First of all, it supports JPEG, PNG, PSD, and TIFF; anyway, these are the most used types of images. However, if for some reason your image is in another extension, you can do the conversion in the app itself.

To do this, go to File, followed by the Export menu and click Format. In the popup dialog, choose the file type you want and you’re good to go. Now let’s walk through the steps to remove background images using the Preview app on Mac. If you want, you can create a backup of your original image (right-click > Duplicate) before proceeding with the editing steps.

• Open the desired app using the Preview app on your Mac.
• Then, at the top right of the toolbar, click the Markup Toolbar button. It should be just to the left of the search icon.
• Next, click the Instant Alpha button on the toolbar. This will be a blue magic wand located to the left of the toolbar.
• Now hold and drag your cursor across the edges of the image and then the Preview app will select the dragged area.
• If you are having trouble selecting the desired portion, you can make use of a couple of tips. For example, you can enlarge the image to get a better viewing angle. In this way, you could select the edges more accurately. To do so, go to Window and select the Zoom option.
• Also, if you have a wrong selection, just drag your cursor in the opposite direction and the selection will stop.
• Moving on, once you have made the selection that needs to be deleted, hit the Delete button. Similarly, repeat the steps above to remove other parts of the image.
• Likewise, if you want to delete the entire region outside of the selected area, go to the Edit menu. Then select the Invert Selection option and hit the Delete button.
• With the background now removed, it’s time to save the image. However, not all image types support a transparent background. In that case, you may see a dialog asking if you want to “Convert this document to PNG”. Click the Convert button in that case.

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Your Mac’s Preview app doesn’t just contain PDF-editing features. It’s a great little image editor, too. Preview offers basic tools for cropping, resizing, rotating, annotating, and otherwise tweaking images.

Just as QuickTime will never replace iMovie in spite of all its useful media editing features, Preview will never replace Photoshop or even iPhoto. But, for some quick and basic image editing, Preview is surprisingly useful.

Get an Image Into Preview

Getting an image into Preview is easy. By default, you can simply double-click an image file and it will open in Preview. If you’ve changed your image file associations, you can Command-click or right-click on an image file, point to Open With, and select Preview.

You can also open the Preview app from the Applications folder, Launchpad, or by pressing Command + Space to open Spotlight Search and searching for Preview. From Preview, you can open the image file directly. Or, with Preview open, you can click File > New From Clipboard to import an image file from your clipboard. You can then edit the image and get it back onto your clipboard by clicking Edit > Copy.

If you’d like to take a screenshot and edit it, you can press Command+Shift+3 to snap a screenshot of your entire screen, Command+Shift+4 to snap a screenshot of a selectable area, or Command+Shift+5 to snap a screenshot of only the current window. The screenshot will be saved as a .png file on your desktop, and you can open it in Preview to begin editing it. (Or, you can hold Ctrl as you take a screenshot — Command+Ctrl+Shift+3, for example. Your Mac will save the screenshot to your clipboard, and you can import it into Preview with the File > New From Clipboard option.)

Rotate an Image

Rotating an image is simple. Simply click the rotate button on the toolbar near the top-right of the window one or more times. You can also click the Edit menu and click one of the Rotate or Flip options.

To save your changes, click File > Save. You can also click File > Duplicate to create a duplicate copy and save the edited image as a new file, keeping the original image before the edits were made.

To undo any changes, click the Edit menu and select Undo. To revert to the original image file before you began editing it, click the File menu, point to Revert To, and select the original image version.

Crop an Image

Cropping an image is also simple. Preview uses the rectangular selection by default, so you should just be able to start clicking and dragging. Click the Tools menu and select Rectangular Selection if this isn’t working as expected.

Click and drag anywhere in the image to select a rectangular section of the image. Click Tools > Crop afterward and preview will crop the selection, cutting out everything else in the image. As with any edit, click File > Save to save your changes.

Resize an Image

Select Tools > Adjust Size to bring up the Resize dialog, which will allow you to resize the image. It supports many measurement units, including pixels. By default, it will resize the image proportionally, maintaining the original aspect ratio to ensure the resized image doesn’t look stretched or smooshed.

Image-resizing tools like this one are useful for shrinking images so they don’t take up as much visible area or on-disk space. They’re not ideal for enlarging an image as the blown-up image will be lower-quality — for this reason, enlarging an image is almost never a good idea.

Annotate an Image

Preview includes various image mark-up tools — the same ones that work in PDFs — which you can access by clicking the Show Markup Toolbar button near the top-right corner of the window. You can also click the Tools menu, point to Annotate, and select one of these tools in the menu.

Select a tool and it will replace the default “rectangular selection” tool. You can then click somewhere in the image to add text, draw a line, highlight an area, create a shape, or insert an arrow — whichever tool you’ve selected.

Adjust Color or Gamma

The built-in Preview application also has a tool for adjusting the color levels or gamma of an image. Click Tools > Adjust Color to access it. Use the options on the pane that appears to adjust various color settings. The pane includes an overall color level graph you can modify as well as sliders for adjusting exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, temperature, tint, sepia, and sharpness. It’s useful for everything from fixing the color levels of an image to applying that old-timey sepia filter Instagram made trendy.

It doesn’t matter if you’re not sure what the options do — the image will update in the background as you adjust these sliders, so you can see a preview of your color adjustments in real time. You can figure out what the options do by playing with them.

Preview is a surprisingly powerful app. Not only can it view just a single image file at a time, it can view multiple images at a time and quickly cycle between them, producing a sort of slideshow. To do this, select multiple images in the Finder by holding the Shift key and clicking each. Next, Command-click or right-click on the images and open them in Preview. Preview will open with a sidebar showing a list of thumbnails for all the images you opened. Cycle between them using the arrow keys or by clicking the thumbnail images to quickly view all of them.

Remove or replace the background of a video with artificial intelligence

Easy video background removal

With Kapwing’s smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Open the Kapwing Studio and upload your own video, or use one you found on the web. With your video layer selected, click the “Effects” tab and select the “Remove Background” option. Use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you, and export for a background-free video.

How to Remove Background from Video

1. Apply effect

Upload a video from your device, or use a link to a video from YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, etc. Then, click the Remove Background button in the Effects tab and give it a few seconds to load and start applying the neural network. When it’s done, you will see a preview of which areas will be removed.

Adjust the threshold

You can now play through the video and adjust how it looks. Are there residual bits of background that remain around the person in the video? Move the Threshold slider to the right. Did you go too far and remove part of someone’s shirt, hair, or face? Slide it to the left. It’s that simple.

Upload or search for a new background using the Upload or Images buttons in the upper toolbar. When everything looks just right, hit the Export button and give Kapwing some time to process your project. Once it’s done, you can download your finished video or share it directly on social media!

Remove the Background from Any Video Online

Using your computer, phone, or tablet, click Upload to find an image you have saved already, or paste a link to any image location on the web like Instagram, Google Drive, Google Images, or Instagram. The Kapwing Background Remover lets you use both the Magic Wand and Erase tools. With the Magic Wand, just click anywhere on an area you want to remove from your photo and click “Remove Pixels.” To change how much is erased when you click, adjust the Sensitivity slider.

The tool will take a few seconds to remove the background, but once the background has been removed, you will see the main foreground of your video in real time. You can then add an image or a different background to go with your original video. You can also take the video with background removed and add it as an overlay on top of another video.

Kapwing’s Studio editor can also be used to time the videos out together so that a video with the background removed can be used with another video. You can trim the videos easily and add additional things like text and images. We hope you enjoy this free tool from Kapwing!

Learn how to automatically cut an object out from a scene — or simply remove a white background in Photoshop — with help from AI-powered Adobe Sensei. Explore reasons to use manual background removal adjustments during the photo editing process.

Say goodbye to unwanted backgrounds.

Sometimes you need to cut out the original background of a photo and replace it with something else. For example, product photos and professional headshots often put their subjects in front of a solid color or white background, which is easy enough when working in a photography studio. But if you don’t have a physical solid background on hand, you can use a few different methods in Photoshop — including both manual and automatic, AI-powered options — to remove the background of an image and replace it with a new one that suits your needs.

Once you’ve detected, selected, and removed the background of an image, you still have to double-check the edges of the object you cut out to make sure you’re happy with your selection. This is especially true around complex edges, like animal fur or human hair. Fortunately, tools powered by Adobe Sensei, like the Refine Edge Brush tool, can help you better blend the subject with its new background.

How to remove a background automatically.

Whether you need to remove a simple white background for your project or have a more complex background you want to change, Photoshop can do it in just one click.

1. Use the Remove Background button.

First, open your image in Photoshop and unlock the layer. Choose Quick Actions from the Properties panel and select the Remove Background button. Powered by Adobe Sensei, this tool will detect the subject and create a transparent background with help from a layer mask.

2. Clean up the edges with black and white brushes.

After you remove the background, some small bits of background may remain on the edges of a subject. Use the Brush tool to adjust the mask to your liking. Select the subject and use the white brush to reveal and the black brush to conceal any unwanted pixels.

3. Improve your object’s borders with the Refine Edge Brush tool.

The Refine Edge Brush tool is purpose-built to fine-tune edges. Simply move the brush over an edge, and it will integrate that surface with the background.

4. Check layers and examine the subject.

Go through your Layers panel and check that the foreground, background, and subjects are all to your liking

Go through your Layers panel and check that the foreground, background, and subjects are all to your liking.

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You can remove a background from an image in PowerPoint and keep a specific part or parts of the image. The background you remove can be a solid color or contain different colors and other images. There are two common strategies for removing image backgrounds in PowerPoint presentations: use the Remove Background tool, or set the background color of the image to a transparent color. Buttons and tabs on the ribbon display differently (with or without text) depending on the version of PowerPoint, screen size, and Control Panel settings. For PowerPoint 365 users, the ribbon tabs may appear with different names. For example, the Picture Tools – Format tab can be displayed as Picture Format.

In PowerPoint, the Remove Background tool can remove the background of an image that contains multiple colors and details. With more detailed images, you may need to spend some time removing the background, but PowerPoint will try to identify the main part of the image so you can get started. This tool works best with images that have high contrast. PowerPoint 2016’s Remove Background feature helps you remove distracting backgrounds so that important parts of your image are in the foreground. With a few simple steps, you can create commendable presentations and no one will ever know you did all those fancy image edits right in PowerPoint.

How to remove the background of a picture in Microsoft PowerPoint

• Select the image whose background you want to remove.
• On the Picture Tools → Format tab, click the Remove Background button (found in the Adjust group).
• If necessary, resize the bounding rectangle to correctly enclose the subject.
• If necessary, use the Mark Areas to Keep and Mark Areas to Remove buttons to refine the location of the image background.
• Repeat step 4 until you have successfully removed the background from the image.
• Click the Keep Changes button.

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Easily change the default login screen picture in macOS Monterey on your Mac.

By default, a pink and purple background appears on the Login screen, Lock screen, and Desktop on macOS Monterey. Apparently, both the Login screen and Lock screen show the same background that you set as your current desktop wallpaper. Similar to Big Sur, macOS Monterey provides no native option to set a custom background for the login screen. This is a pesky limitation more so for users who like to customize Mac login screen with their favorite wallpaper.

Login Screen vs Lock Screen – One shouldn’t confuse the login screen with the lock screen as both are different. The login screen appears when you start up (boot into Mac) or log out of a user account whereas the lock screen appears when you lock your Mac.

While you can’t change the lock screen in Monterey on Mac, which boasts the same background image as your desktop. However, there is a workaround you can use to change the login screen on macOS Monterey. The trick involves using a third-party app, ‘Deeper’ by Titanium Software to change the background image of the login window. It can get the task done in a few clicks and without any complicated steps.

Now let’s see how to change the login screen background on your Mac running macOS Monterey 12.0 or later. The below tool supports Intel-based Mac as well as Apple Silicon Macs with an M1 chip.

How to change the startup screen on macOS Monterey

1. Download Deeper for macOS Monterey and install the app on your Mac.
2. Open Deeper and click OK on the warning window.
3. Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy, and click the ‘Privacy‘ tab.
4. Click the lock at the bottom and enter your password (or use Touch ID) to make changes.
5. Scroll through and select “Full Disk Access” from the sidebar on the left.
6. Tick mark the checkbox next to “Deeper” to grant it the required permissions to work.
7. Click “Quit & Reopen” in the popup that appears.
8. Open Deeper and enter your Mac password to access the app.
9. Once the app loads up, go to the ‘Login‘ tab.
10. Under Login, click the ‘Select’ option and choose an image you’d like to set as your login screen. TIP: Choose an HD wallpaper for a better appearance.

That’s it. Deeper will apply the necessary changes. Now restart your Mac and it will welcome you with a new login background.

NOTE: To get back the default login wallpaper, simply go to Deeper > Login, and click on ‘Restore’.

Limitation – The above process only works as long as there is only one user account (no guest users, root user, or other users).

Update (21 February): If FileVault is turned on, the replacement image will not appear at startup. However, opening the login window from the fast user switching menu will display the replacement image.

To turn off FileVault, go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy, and open the ‘FileVault‘ tab.

One of the unsung heroes of Apple’s Mac OS X is the simple, yet incredibly powerful, Preview application. Using Preview, you can easily adjust your photos and get them ready for print, projects, and sharing.

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One of the unsung heroes of Apple’s Mac OS X is the simple, yet incredibly powerful, Preview application. Using Preview, you can easily adjust your photos and get them ready for print, projects, and sharing. And best of all, it comes free on every Mac, bundled with OS X.

Many tips floating around the Internet will suggest using Adobe’s Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to accomplish tasks like resizing and adjusting image resolution. Though these applications are great solutions, they can also be costly and somewhat complicated for new users. Photoshop can run as high as $199 for the latest version, and Elements still costs about $69.

Using Preview to resize an image:

Select the image you wish to resize. Preview handles nearly all popular image formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and GIF. If the image you want to open is associated with another program (like Photoshop), right-click the image file and mouse over “Open With” and choose Preview from the list.

From the Preview menu bar select Tools > Adjust Size.

In the size adjustment box that appears, you will notice you have several options.

To adjust the dimensions of your image, you can set a custom height or width, or constrain your image to fit into common sizes. Keep in mind that you will want to keep your image proportions locked so stretching does not occur.

You can also adjust the resolution (pixels per inch) that your photo contains. Adding pixels does not necessarily mean you will have a higher-resolution photograph, however, and some distortion can occur when resampling.

For images that will only be seen on a screen, make the resolution 72 pixels/inch. If you need to print at a low fidelity or your image contains a lot of text, set the resolution to 150 or 300 pixels/inch. Also keep in mind that higher-resolution images are bigger files.

Preview is also a great tool for doing all kinds of other simple adjustments on images. If you need to take out a background on an image, you can use Preview’s Instant Alpha feature to quickly and easily complete the task. The Instant Alpha tool is located in Preview’s tool bar, under the Select menu.

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Once you have the tool selected, click on part of the background you wish to delete and begin dragging. The red overlay that appears represents the area that can be deleted. Drag until the space is covered and let go. Press delete on your keyboard and the area will be removed.

In order to keep the image with the background deleted, you must save it as a PNG or GIF file with the alpha check box selected.

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Now you know how to quickly resize a photograph and create images with alpha backgrounds. But, what if the color on your image is off slightly? Well, Preview can fix that, too.

From the Preview menu bar, select Tools > Adjust Color. You may recognize the semitransparent HUD that appears from programs like iPhoto or Pages. The color adjustment tool allows you to tinker with your image’s levels, the exposure and contrast, saturation, temperature, and tint. You can also add a sepia tone or extra sharpness to your image.

Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti

Of course Preview only offers the very basic features for adjusting colors and resizing images. For more-advanced photo-editing capabilities, check out the editing functions in iPhoto, which also comes free on every new Mac.

Do you have a cool trick using Preview? Let me know in the comments!

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If the macOS desktop is looking a little boring, or is in need of a little more personalization than a change of background image, one solution could be to change how files, folders, and apps look. AppleInsider tells you how to quickly change the icon for the majority of files stored on your Mac.

Changing the appearance of an icon can be performed as a way to jazz up a stale desktop, but it also serves a number of other useful purposes as well. When staring at a sea of identical-looking blue folders in Finder, it could help to identify a specific one you need to access by making it stand out from the rest, or by making each folder’s icon give some clue to its contents aside from its name.

Switching the icon can also be used as part of a practical joke or to hide documents in plain sight, such as by making the thumbnail of one image look like it’s something completely different.

For whatever purpose you need to change an icon for, the process itself is quite easy to perform, and to undo.

Changing the icon

The first step is to make a copy of the image you want to use for the icon in the clipboard.

Open the image in your selected image editor, or in Preview, select the portion of the image you want to use, and then copy it by either going to Edit in the menu followed by Copy, or by using the Command-C keyboard shortcut.

Navigate to the file, folder, or app that you want to change, right-click it, and select Get Info to bring up its information window. This can also be done by selecting the file, then going to the menu to select File and then Get Info.

At the top left of this information window will be a small icon. Click it to highlight the small icon with a border.

Lastly, paste the image onto the selected icon, by either selecting Edit in the menu then Paste, or by using the Command-V keyboard shortcut.

At this point, the small icon will change to the pasted image, updating the appearance of the file at the same time.

Copying another icon

If you plan to reuse an icon already in use by another file or folder, it is a similar but slightly different process.

Summon the information window for the file you want to copy the icon from using the Get Info instructions above. Select the small icon, and copy it by using Edit then Copy in the menu, or the Command-C keyboard shortcut.

Once copied, close this window and open the information window for the file you want to alter. Select the small icon, then paste using the keyboard shortcut Command-V or by selecting Edit then Copy in the menu.

Again, both the small icon in the window and the regular icon will change to use the copied graphic.

Restoration

Changing the icon back to its initial form is slightly easier, started by bringing up the information window using the same Get Info instructions as above.

Once in the information window, select the small icon, and either select Edit then Cut in the menu, using the shortcut Command-X, or by pressing Delete.

Extra notes

In AppleInsider’s testing, it has been able to change the icon on the vast majority of file types in macOS. There are some exceptions to this, such as Apple’s Calendar app, which cannot have their icons changed.

If you want to change the icons for apps on the Dock, you will need to change them within the Applications folder. You then need to remove the app from the Dock by dragging it off, and then re-add it by dragging the app from the Applications folder to the Dock.

Apple has announced the release of their OS X Beta Seed Program today, which allows anyone with an Apple ID and a Mac to download and run the latest developer build of Mac OS X 10.9.3—the most updated beta version of Mavericks.

The OS X Beta Seed Program allows us to run software that was once only available to limited test audiences or registered Apple developers—with the latter costing $99 a year for a membership. With this program, not only do we get our hands on extremely new software, but we also provide help and feedback to Apple in order to make the OS X experience better for all.

If you’re interested in testing out the latest beta version of OS X Mavericks, head over to the OS X Beta Seed Program, log in with your Apple credentials, make a backup of your device, download the software, and update your computer.

Once your computer reboots, you’ll have the latest developer version of OS X, ready for tinkering and bug reports to Apple.

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1 Getting Started

• Open the MS Word label template you downloaded from Mr-Label.com.
• For this project I’m using MR550 template.
• Delete the words in the template.

Figure 1

2 Design the First Label

1. Enter text into the form.
2. Insert picture – click “Insert” > “Pictures”, select picture from the directory, click “Insert”, then the picture will be displayed in the label (Figure 2). At this point, you only need to move your mouse to the lower left corner of the image to resize the image (Figure 3).
3. Attention: Laser and inkjet printers have an accuracy of approximately plus or minus 1mm in the vertical and in the horizontal, and the paper can also rotate slightly as it goes through the printer. You need to take this into account when you design your labels. If possible, avoid designing labels with a border around them because any inaccuracy will be visible.

Figure 2Figure 3

3 Edit other labels

If all your labels contents are the same, you can select the content inside the first label (including text and images), then copy them to the remaining labels.

If your labels contents are stored in a spread sheet, please refer to the following article

4 Print and enjoy!

The border is inserted as a background image. You need to delete this image before printing.

Move the mouse to the upper left corner. When the “Cross” icon appears, click the mouse to select the background image, then click “Delete”, so that the printed label has no border.

Figure 4

Yes, you can print the background color or image in Microsoft Word. Here’s how to do it.

Yes, you can print the background color or image in Microsoft Word. Doing so is slightly different, depending on whether you’re using Windows or Mac. Here are the steps you need to take to print the background color or image in Microsoft Word.

Windows

1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. Click New to create a new document or open an existing one.
3. Choose File > Options.
4. Select Display.
5. Click print background colors and images under Printing Options.
6. Choose OK.

You can now print the background color and images of your Microsoft Word documents in Windows.

End Background Printing

To reverse course and no longer print the background color or image in Microsoft Word in Windows:

1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. Click New to create a new document or open an existing one.
3. Choose File > Options.
4. Select Display.
5. Uncheck Print background colors and images under Printing Options.
6. Choose OK.

On Mac, the steps are slightly different, as you can see below.

1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. Click New to create a new document or open an existing one.
3. Choose Word > Preferences.
4. Select Print under Output and Sharing.
5. Click Print background colors and images under Printing Options.
6. Close the Print dialog box.

You can now print the background color and images of your Microsoft word documents in macOS.

End Background Printing

To reverse course and no longer print the background color or image in Microsoft Word in Mac:

1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. Click New to create a new document or open an existing one.
3. Choose Word > Preferences.
4. Select Print under Output and Sharing.
5. Uncheck Print background colors and images under Printing Options.
6. Close the Print dialog box.

New to Microsoft Word?

If you haven’t purchased a Microsoft Word license and need to, Microsoft offers differently monthly and yearly packages online.

For home use, the Microsoft 365 suite is currently available in three varieties, including a Family, Personal, and Home & Student plan. The first is priced at $100 per year (or $10/month) and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook for Mac, and is useful for up to six users. The Personal version is for one person and is $70/year or $6.99 per month. The student plan is a one-time purchase of $150 and includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint only.

Business users can select from Basic, Standard, and Premium plans, starting at $5 per user/month.

For Mac users, the easiest way to get Microsoft Word installed on your computer is through a Mac App Store download. You’ll still need a Microsoft 365 subscription, however, to activate the app. Downloading the Microsoft 365 app includes four of the supported apps. Besides Word, there’s Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Mac’s Preview app is like a swiss army knife. On the surface, it may look like a regular image viewer. But, only when you dig in little deeper, you’ll see how useful it can get.

Every once in a while, I discover something new in the preview. For instance — you can encrypt a PDF file, make batch changes to images, or you can even use it as a mini photoshop. So let’s see some tips and tricks to get more out of Mac’s preview app.

Preview Tips & Tricks

#1 Password protect a PDF with Preview

Say you want to send a confidential document to your colleague. Now, if this was on Windows, then you might have to purchase expensive software like Adobe Acrobat; but thankfully on Mac, you can password protect a PDF with the built-in preview app.

Simply open the PDF file with Mac’s preview. Next, go to File > Export as PDF. A new window will open, click on Show Details. Now check mark Encrypt option > assign password > save changes. And well that’s it.

#2 Batch resize photos with preview

In other OS, you have to download a third-party software to resize bulk photos. But fortunately, this feature is inbuilt the preview app.

Select all the images you want to resize and open them inside preview. Next, again select all those photos from the left side thumbnail drawer, then go to Tools > Adjust Size > Enter the new height and width. Then go to File > Save all. If you want to save a new copy of resized images then choose the Export option under the file menu.

#3 Batch change file extension with preview

I use this feature all the time when I take screenshots on my Mac. So, by default Mac uses .png format for screenshots since it’s good for text and transparency. But, jpg is better suited for the web, due to its small size. Now, instead of individually changing each image’s extension, why not automate this with preview.

To do this, select all the images and open them with preview. Now click on the thumbnail of one image and do CMD +A, to select all image. Next, go to file > exported selected image > change format to whatever you like.

#4 Create a new file from the clipboard

Say you find an image on the web, that you’ll like to save on your computer, then you don’t necessary have to download it. Like photoshop, Preview can also paste images from clipboard. Simply copy the image to your clipboard. Open preview > File > Copy from clipboard.

#5 Edit Images and PDF with preview

Believe or not, but the preview app is also a decent image/PDF editor. You can add text, put arrows and boxes around in the image or PDF, or even play with the color and saturation of an image.

Overall, it’s not as versatile as photoshop (obviously) but sometimes, I do use it for light image editing and the results are quite satisfactory.

#6 Split or Combine pages with preview

Say you have a multi-page PDF file and you want to add or remove few pages from between. Well, it’s quite simple to do this on the preview app. All you have to do is simply drag and drop PDF from the preview’s thumbnail drawer and it’ll magically become the part of the document.

#7 Remove background from the images

Preview has a quick selection (instant alpha and smart lasso) tool like photoshop, this lets you extract the part of the image. And if the part is of the same color (like a profile picture with uniform background) then you can easily remove the background.

To start with, open the image in the preview. Next, click on the briefcase icon to bring up the markup tool. Click on the instant alpha icon, now holding down the left click, drag it on the part of the image with the uniform background. Once satisfy, press the delete button to remove the selected part.

#8 Digital signature

Sometimes you have to send a self-attested copy of the document for legal issues. Now the traditional way to do it is — first print the document, sign it physically and then rescan it. Right?

But thankfully, preview has this life-saving feature called digital signature. With this, you can simply sign the document on your screen with the trackpad, or you can sign with a black pen on white paper and then hold that signature in front of a webcam. It’ll automatically import that signature to the PDF file. Saves time.

Closing words

Preview is good for handling batch images and small image editing work. Although it can not replace photoshop, but for light work, you should consider it before you buy expensive software.

Finally, Apple lets you create shortcuts on Mac. Here’s how to use them.

When Shortcuts came to iOS, it was a huge deal. Finally, Apple gave us ways to customize and streamline our workflows and make our lives easier. Now, the Mac is joining in on the fun. In macOS Monterey, you can create shortcuts right on your Mac, so you don’t have to create shortcuts on just your iPhone.

Any shortcuts you create in Mac will appear on your iPhone as well, and vice-versa, making it easy to edit and create shortcuts on typically the biggest Apple screen you have. With shortcuts, your best Mac got even better. Here’s how to create a shortcut on macOS Monterey.

How to create a Shortcut on macOS Monterey

As you may have suspected, everything Shortcuts starts in the Shortcuts app.

Launch Shortcuts.

Click new shortcut. It’s the + at the top of the app window.

Click on Shortcut name. It’s in the top left of the app window.

Click the close button on the window. It’s the red x in the top left corner.

You’ve now created a Shortcut doing all the things you programmed it to do.

How to edit a shortcut on macOS Monterey

Of course, you’ll need to tinker with your shortcut from time to time, and you can easily do that in the app.

Launch Shortcuts.

Double-click on the shortcut you want to edit.

From here, you’ll be able to edit the Shortcut to your liking.

How to delete a shortcut on macOS Monterey

You can delete a Shortcut any time you want; just remember once you do, it’s gone.

1. Launch Shortcuts.
2. Right-click/Control-click on the shortcut you want to delete.

Click Delete.

Explore Shortcuts even more!

Shortcuts open up a huge new world of possibilities on all your devices, and we’re glad to see macOS Monterey has jumped in on the fun. This is just a quick overview of how to create and edit Shortcuts on your Mac, but, if you’re new to Shortcuts and want to explore more of what they can offer, check out our guide for getting started with shortcuts for everything you need to know!

Updated May 2022: Updated for the latest version of macOS Monterey.

The other day, I was working on a presentation.

I was trying to come up with a way to add a logo and few icons into PowerPoint, but there was a problem. The images all had different background colors, and I needed them to all have a uniform look.

Maybe you’ve been there too. You have a logo, icon, or other image that you’re trying to design with, but you need to remove the background of the image. You may need to add your company logo to a new image or add an icon to a PowerPoint presentation.

You can make the background of an image transparent with an advanced photo editor like Photoshop, with TechSmith Snagit, or with a variety of other tools.

Luckily, the approach is similar no matter what tool you are using. With Snagit, it only takes a few steps to quickly remove the background from your image.

How to make a picture’s background transparent

Keep in mind that Snagit is not as sophisticated as a professional editing program like Photoshop, and it may not work to delete the background from a photo or image with complex backgrounds.

However, Snagit is the perfect Photoshop alternative to make an image transparent if you aren’t familiar with high-end tools.

Step 1: Insert the image into the editor

Start by taking a screenshot with Snagit, or upload an image from the File menu. Images that have a white background, solid color, or high-contrast backgrounds work best.

Step 2: Next, click the Fill button on the toolbar and choose Transparent

If you need to add a transparent fill to your Quick Styles for the first time, it’s pretty simple. All you need to is click down on the fill color option in the Tool Properties and select the transparent fill.

Step 3: Adjust your tolerance

It’s fairly easy to adjust the tolerance on this image because it’s only black and white. But sometimes you have an image with lots of different shades. If you have an image with lots of similar colors or gradients in the background you may end up with some bleeding around the icon, logo, etc.

One thing you can do to remedy that is to adjust the tolerance of the fill. One percent is the most strict, and 100 percent means it will pretty much wash out your entire image. You may have to play with the tolerance to get the right transparency level.

Adjusting the opacity will dictate how transparent you want your fill to be. The more opaque, the less transparent your fill. So if you want your background completely removed, go with 0%.

Step 4: Click the background areas you want to remove

If you are using a screenshot or a PNG image, it will default to have a transparent background. If you are using a JPG or other file format, you’ll need to adjust your background color in the Snagit editor first or it will default to white rather than transparent.

To do this, simply click Image > Canvas Color (on Windows) or Image > Change Canvas Color… (on Mac).

Step 5: Save your image as a PNG

If you don’t save your image as a PNG file, it will default your background to white.

And that’s all there is to remove the background from an image. It only takes a few steps and gives you the freedom to create a seamless look to your training documents, marketing materials, or presentations.

Robert Martin

You can now create green screen videos without owning or using a green screen. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to remove the background from videos using a free online editor.

The green screen is a timeless piece of movie making hardware that creators and artists have relied on since the 1930s. This simple screen teleports actors and performers to distant lands and other worlds at almost no cost whatsoever. They can be as simple as a piece of a cloth hung in a Twitch streamer’s bedroom or as elaborate as a 20-foot wall on a Hollywood sound stage.

We love the green screen and don’t think it’s going away anytime soon, but software that automatically removes the background from video is rapidly becoming more accessible. We’ve seen some great examples of digital greens in apps like Zoom and TikTok that can remove the background behind a person. These solutions both require creators to have a mobile phone or powerful PC at their disposal, though. It’s now possible to create green screen style videos for free online with almost any browser using Kapwing’s Studio Editor.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to make a green screen video for free inside of a web browser on your iPhone, Android, PC, or tablet even if you don’t have a green screen.

1. Upload a video to Kapwing Studio
2. Apply the green screen effect to your video
3. Replace the background in your video with a new background
4. Export and Share your green screen video

Step 1. Upload a video to Kapwing Studio

Kapwing’s Green Screen effect – or more accurately, ChromaKey, since it can work with any near-solid color – is still in Beta, but it gives you full functionality over the way you want to erase and replace the background of any video. The Green Screen effect works best with videos that include a single person standing in front of a solid background like a wall. The background can be any color, as long as it doesn’t contain any major variations in tone or hue.

When you’re ready to get started, open the Kapwing Studio and upload the video you want to green screen. Once the clip has fully uploaded, you’ll be able to automatically remove the background.

Videos featuring a solid background work best with the green screen feature

Step 2. Apply the green screen effect to your video

Applying a green screen effect to your video only takes a few clicks. Select the video you just uploaded and click the Effects tab on the right side of the screen. Inside the effects tab, click the Remove Background or Chroma Key button to instantly remove the background in the video without ever using a green screen.

Once you’ve removed the background from your video, you can use the Threshold sliders to adjust the strength of the green screen effect. The more you move the threshold sliders, the more pixels that are removed from your video. In the Chroma Key settings, the hue threshold will remove colors that are close to the one you selected, the saturation threshold will remove fainter or more intense colors, and the brightness threshold will remove lighter or darker colors near the one you selected. You’ll want to adjust the slider back and forth a bit until you are happy with the removal of your video’s background.

After the background is removed, you’ll likely notice a reduced frame rate in the preview of your original video. This is a known issue in the beta version of the Kapwing Green Screen feature and once your video is exported and processed the framerate will return to normal.

Step 3. Replace the background in your video with a new background

Now that you’ve achieved a green screen effect and removed the original background from your video, it’s time to add a new background into your video. There are several ways to approach Green Screen content and Kapwing can help support you in all of them.

Add an Image to the Background

The most basic green screen technique is to add a flat image into the background to make it appear that you are in a different static environment. You’ve seen this done countless times on Zoom and the effect is similar here. To add a new image to the background behind you, upload the image into the Kapwing Studio or use the Images button to search for an image you want to use.

Once your new background image is in the studio, select the image and then click the Send Backward button until the background is behind your original video layer.

A static image is the easiest background to add with the green screen effect

Add a Video to the Background

Replacing the background of your green screen video with a new video layer is a technique found in reaction videos on YouTube, gaming clips on Twitch, and full blown movies. Kapwing makes the process of creating this type of green screen video just as simple as working with a static image.

You can upload a video to use in the background from your desktop or import a video directly from YouTube using the Upload button in the top left of the Studio editor. When you background video is fully uploaded, select the video layer and click the Send Backward button until the video background is behind your original video layer. With your background is in place, you can also choose to resize your original green screen video and move the person to a different part of the screen.

Adding a video layer into the background makes it easy to create reaction videos

Step 4. Export and Share your green screen video

When your green screen video is finished and you’re ready to download it, click the red Export Video button in the top right of the screen.

The final video screen in Kapwing after a project has been processed

This will process your video on Kapwing’s cloud servers and stitch all of your edits together for free with no watermark as long as you are signed into Kapwing. You can leave this screen and come back at any time without affecting this process. After a few minutes, your video will finish and be ready for downloading or sharing on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, or anywhere else online.

And just like that you’ve created a high quality green screen video without ever investing in or owning a physical green screen! Follow us at @KapwingApp on Twitter and Instagram to show us the great videos you’re making with the Kapwing Studio editor. We’re always inspired by the things you create and can’t wait to see more.

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A PDF file generally has a white background, however, one can easily change the background color in PDF. By changing background you can make a PDF more colorful and interesting if you don’t like the boring white background.

However, you can also remove the background color or image if you don’t like the colored PDF and want to stick to the white background. There are basically two free methods to accomplish this task. The first is by restoring the background color to white. While the second method will help you to remove the background image or color from the PDF.

1. Change PDF Background Color To White

You can use the free Adobe Reader software to remove the background color in PDF by changing its background color to white.

1. Open the PDF file in the Adobe Reader and select Edit from the toolbar at the top left corner. Next, select Preferences… from the menu.

2. Now on the new screen, select the Accessibility option from the left side panel under Categories.

Next, check the Replace Document Colors box and then under Custom Color select Page Background. After that, change the background color to white color and finally click on OK at the bottom.

3. With this, you have successfully removed the background from PDF.

So that’s how easy it is to remove the color from a PDF file using Adobe Reader. Now you can also print this file and you won’t get a colored background.

2. Remove Background Image From PDF Online

For removing the background image from PDF you can make use of Google Docs. You must be wondering that how can Google Docs help in this matter? Well, it converts your PDF file into editable text using OCR technology. The converted editable text has a plain white background.

1. Visit Google Docs on your browser and then tap on the folder icon at the mid-right corner.

2. On the next tab select Upload. Select a PDF file with a colored background by dragging and dropping the file or by clicking on the Select a file from your device button.

3. Wait for a while till the file is uploading. Once the file uploads click on Open with Google Docs at the top.

Now the file will open in Google Docs and you will see that the background is removed from the PDF.

Note: The PDF layout will change a bit when you use Google Docs. However, with little effort, you can fix it back to normal.

4. After that, you can download the file as a PDF by going to File > Download and then select PDF Document.

With this, your file will be downloaded in the PDF format. Now you can use it like any other PDF file.

Why Remove Background From PDF?

This question might come in your mind that why even bother to remove background from PDF? Well, consider you have a PDF file of more than 100 pages, and all of them have a colored background.

In this case, if you want to print this PDF file then it will be very uneconomical as printing 100 pages with the colored background will consume a lot of ink. On the other hand, if you remove the background first and then print the PDF file will consume comparatively very little ink.

Need To Do More With Your PDF Document?

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You can remove the background, edit the text, you can make your document password-protected, and so on. PDFElement has a free trial so you can check what you can do with your translated document yourself:

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Conclusion

We hope you have successfully removed the background color or image from your PDF file. There are many paid tools available in the market for removing background color. However, if you are a non-frequent user then you can stick to these free methods. In case you face any issue while implementing these steps then you can tell us in the comments below.