Create a black background
I would like to know how to make my background black ?
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What do you mean by background? Do you have something like a flower that you want to present surrounded with the rest of the image darkened to a black background? Or, do you have an entire photo that you want to surrounded by a black background like a matte? If you can show us what you are working on and describe what you want to do with it we'll be better able to help.
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Like this one, I just want the dog in the foreground and the rest of the photo black
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You can use a curves effect with the dog masked out then adjust the curves until the background is how you want it.
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Ok, I will take a look at that, do you know if there is any tutorials which show how ? I have been trying to mask the dog out using a colour mask or a luminosity mask but I have not succeeded, then I see super photos on a black background, probably shot in a studio.
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I would paint it out by hand.
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You won't be able to use a color mask because the background has too many colors to select and you won't be able to use the Luminosity mask because the photo is pretty much the same Luminosity all over.
As Brian says, you can mask it by hand, but you can also try the AI mask, because of the contrast between the subject and background it should work fairly well.
There are plenty of ways to make a black background, taking the exposure all the way down is one, using the curves filter is another or you can add a black layer underneath to show through the masked area.
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An alternate method is to duplicate the layer; select the duplicate to local, scroll down choose paint by color, choose any color desired with the color chip or choose a color from screen, invert the mask because you want the entire layer colored, place solid color layer on bottom, choose top layer and paint out the existing background.
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The AI mask will struggle in places requiring clean up by hand; I tried it. :) I did this in about 5 minutes which is about how long the program spent trying to create the AI mask.
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Not the same photo, but I now know what I am doing, thank's a lot for your support, you guy's rock, probably something simple for you but means a lot too me, thanks again.
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When I wanted a black background I loaded a black layer on top and painted out the Moon by lowering the opacity on the black layer, so I could see where the Moon was, and then increased the opacity to bring the black back.
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@ Dave Kelly, How easy is it to create a black layer ?
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I used Affinity Photo but I am sure that Paint.net or any basic paint program would work like Windows Paint or the Mac equivalent. You might be able to creat on using On1 but I am not sure how to do it.
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Add an Adjustment Layer then use the Paint with Color option to paint it any color you like. From there, follow Dave's procedure.
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