Making a Portrait Background
We all have those photographs where the person looks fine but the background isn’t great; here’s a way to add a simple, textured background to a portrait.
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Melvyn
August 29, 2010 at 7:28 pm
I followed all steps (I thought) but can’t get the edit copy and edit paste to work for the picture and then the background. What step am I missing?
Melvyn
September 9, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Wendy:
I have followed all the steps but when I get to flatten layers and then edit>copy, the copy command is greyed out so that it will not work and therefore I cannot get the picture to transfer to the new background. I am using elements 7 with windows vista 64bit. If you would be good enough to e-mail the “fix” so that I can use your tutorial I would really appreciate it. My e-mail is doreintl@comcast.net.
Thanks.
Melvyn
Laton J
December 18, 2010 at 8:32 am
Wendy……I like all of your tutorials and I many photos that I can use this on. Thanks, Laton