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Sarah Springer
 

How to Get a Black Background?


I have noticed several very nice images with an all black background, it makes the images really pop, so how is this achieved?


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April 22, 2009

 
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Hi Sarah,
There are a couple of ways to do this, but select the background and create a new layer and then you can Edit>Fill and use black as the fill color. There are some cool effects you can do with the gradient tool as well with backgrounds.
You can also select the background and create a new layer and add an empty layer mask and use the brush tool to color over the existing background. I believe this is how I did this photo...
Hope this helps,
Carlton


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