Adobe Photoshop Actions???

[kc321]

i have been trying to look for a action that will help me change the background of a image to a complete white color. I have a clothing store, and I am putting up pictures on the web. i need white everything else, except the clothes on the manniquen, to help the clothes stand out on the picture. CAN ANYONE HELP ME?
i am looking for actions that can help do this to my pictures:

ex#1: http://www.forever21.com/product.asp?catalog5Fname=FOREVER21&category%5Fname=Dressy+Tops&product%5Fid=2037979287&Page=1
the other URL is incorrect, try this one:

http://www.forever21.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=FOREVER21&category%5Fname=Dressy+Tops&product%5Fid=2037979287&Page=1

[phy333]

Try this site:

http://vkart.com/photoshoptutorials/white_background.shtml

Good Luck

[ninja cat]

what you need to do is control + shift + N to craete a new layer then outline the entire canvas with the rectangle marque so it is highlighted, make sure you new layer is highlighted then use the paint bucket to fill in the entire layer, then you need to make sure the layer containing the manequin is above the all white new layer.

[Mr_Masks99]

You should be able to make your own action, but with this use it may be a little trick to use. Here's how.

1.) Go to your Actions tab (Should be in the window above your layers tab). Once on this tab, there are 6 buttons that will appear on the bottom of the window. Click the one that is next to the trash can (Create new action.)

2.) When the window comes up, name the action whatever you want and click record... (we'll call it Death to Smurfs.. he he..)

3.) Now, any actions you do will be recorded. Do whatever steps you find necesarry to remove your background. Once you have done everything you need, go back to your actions tab and hit the stop button in the far left.

Here's the catch. Although the actions button WILL record when you make selections with your magic wand, lasso, or any other selection tool, it is a little tricky as to what is selected. The Rectangular or round selection tools should always select the same area at the same size, but your magic wand and lasso selection tool will pick a random spot to select. There may be a way to get these to select the right spot with an action, but I haven't discovered it yet.

To tell you the truth, you shoudn't need an action. When you save a file as a .JPEG, a white background is automatically rendered to fill in any transparent parts of the image that would be created from you deleting parts of your photo. And, since the selection tool is unreliable, you may be better off skipping the actions. However, if you preferred, just create an action that will only make a new layer underneath your picture layer and fill it with white. When you open the picture, select your clothes/mannequin with the magic wand or the magnetic lasso tool.. (FYI, Magnetic lasso tends to work better at removing the background, but it takes longer to make your selection.) Then, invert your selection and hit delete to remove the background on your pic. Then, run your action to quickly create the white and you're done.

Without actually seeing the type of background your clothes were taken on, I couldn't really give you more direction than that. Something that may help you is to get the clothes you want to post, put them on mannequins, and then take pictures of the clothes in front of a solid colored background. Then, you could just go in and use the magic wand to quickly select your background and then delete it.

Hope this helps!

[circusmort]

You can't do this with an action.

Cutting an object out of it's background area is a complex procedure - you can try using the extract filter or even the magnetic lasso tool but none of these are a real alternative to having a person actually manually cut out the object with the pen tool or specialist filters.

Sure there's other things you can do - paint bucket and magic wand included - you could also smear the clothes in manure - it'd make them look as atractive for sure.

The second best thing you can do is actually photograph the object against a white background then adjust the levels or dodge / burn in the white area to remove any tonal variation.