


Pixelmator pro remove background plus#
Now if I wanted to include more things in the background all I need to do is hold the Shift key down and you could see I get that circle and a plus in the middle of it. The best way to refine is to zoom in, you could use this or on the trackpad you could just use two fingers, and you get a closer look and see how well it did. Then I release the trackpad or mouse and you could see it's got my selection here. and continue to add parts until I have the entire background. But if I click it and drag it will continue to add to the selection.
Pixelmator pro remove background how to#
But I'm going to show you how to use it anyway and you'll find out why later. Now while this is a great tool for the job it's not the best one. This will allow you to fairly quickly select the subject or the background. If you go here you'll see Quick Selection.

But there are better tools for doing this. It's really neat and it could be used for this. Instead you may want to go and use the Magnetic Selection Tool which will try to find the edge and kind of cling to it. Then you've got this tool here which will allow you to do a Free Selection so you can carefully draw the outline between the background and the subject. Here you've got the General Selection Tool and this will allow you to select rectangles and circles. Now Pixelmator has a ton of different tools that will allow you to select either just the background or just the subject. It's a very neutral solid color behind a subject. So let's start off here with a really simple example. Maybe you want to put the subject on a different background or maybe you want to take the background and blur it a little but not blur the subject. Maybe you just want to take the background away completely. So a common thing you may want to do with a photo is remove the background from it. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let me show you how to remove the background from a photo using Pixelmator Pro on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out How To Remove a Photo Background With Pixelmator Pro at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
