The Gimp provides the Rectangle, Ellipse and Lasso selection tools to help you cut out specific parts of a photo or illustration to keep, eliminate or edit. In addition, if you add an Alpha channel to ...

As you may know, Instant Alpha is a feature that allows you to remove an object in an image from its background. You can find this feature in apps like Pages and Keynote, as well as the Preview app ...

The Lasso Select tool is used to select ink by drawing around it. All ink strokes in the figure will be selected. When selected, you can delete and move the ink. The steps in using Lasso Select are ...

From product photography to web design, sometimes an image is just better without the background. But attempting to tackle the task without the right tools can make even the most skilled photographers ...

Editing an image to remove its background can be quite tedious. And, like most image editing operations, it, too, is considered by many to be one of those operations that require a high-end photo ...

In “The Power of Preview: Cropping and Resizing Images” (18 March 2016) and “The Power of Preview: Annotating Documents and Images” (2 April 2016), we explored editing and annotation tasks with ...