How to change the background of portrait photos

How do you change the background of portrait photos? Background elements have an extremely important effect on the picture. For single portrait photos, a clean, simple background can indeed play a role in keeping the picture simple and eliminating interference. In addition, the simple background can make our works appear modern, individuality, prominent characters in the image of the important position.

The pictures taken outside are often cluttered with backgrounds.

But if the background is simply a lack of change in the simple color block, it will make the picture appear boring and unreal. This is a great opportunity for the gradient tool to do its job. Using the gradient tool can create a slightly changed solid color background to more effectively foil the screen body.

The following 3 steps will tell you how to accomplish this seemingly difficult task.

1 Dig out the characters

Open the radial_gradient_before.jpg and use the magnetic lasso tool to create a selection along the girl's edge. Click the Adjust Edge Open dialog box to further refine the selection. Set the smoothing to 4, feather to 0.5, and then set the output menu to new layer with layer mask.

2 Add new Layer

Select a hidden background layer, click the new Layer button in the layers panel to create a new, blank layer above the background. Select the Gradient tool from the toolbar, open the gradient preset manager to set the gradient mode to the foreground color, and then set the gradient style to a radial gradient.

3 Creating gradients

Set the foreground and background colors you want for the gradient based on your personal preferences. In general, it is best to choose colors that have little difference in color, but have changes in shade to create gradients. Set the beginning of the gradient behind the character, and then drag outward to create a gradient background.

Final piece:

This technique is also repeated in different product or fashion works, but also popular with digital artists, can use a clean background to foil their painting effects.