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October 4, 2017

How to change the background in your photo to something way cooler!

In today’s post: Learn how easy it is to change the background in a photo in just a few clicks! Replace a bad background with a beautiful one.

Learn how easy it is to change the background in a photo with just a few clicks!

All my kids are in school full time this year, and there’s plenty about it I’m enjoying. Getting grocery shopping done in half the time, actually finishing projects I started forever ago, and eating ice cream while watching Poldark without anyone asking for a bite are a few of the things I’m really pretty happy about. But at the same time, I’m not too jazzed about the fact that my kids are getting so old. There’s this little voice of panic running through my head: When did they get so big? How is it possible some of them will be moving out within a couple of years? Did I teach them enough? Did I enjoy them enough? How do I freeze time? And so on and so forth.

As I was panicking about all this a few days ago, I pulled out my old computer and started looking through thousands of photos of my kids from the past 16 years. Talk about a walk down nostalgia lane! One photo in particular caught my eye – a super cute shot of my youngest son as a toddler that I’d taken in Costco. He looks adorable! Too bad the photo background is a bit lacking (unless you regularly pose your toddler in front of pallets full of warehouse sized food).

Learn how to easily replace the background in your photos using Photoshop Elements. This is so cool! I can swap out a bad background for a great one.

I knew this would be a perfect photo a practice a little Photoshop Elements magic on. The newest version of my favorite photo editing software – Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018 – was just released today and it has some cool new features, including an easy Guided Edit that allows you to swap out the background of your photo. Goodbye pallets of rice, hello fall leaves! Thank you to Adobe for sponsoring this post.

Learn how to easily replace the background in your photos using Photoshop Elements. This is so cool! I can swap out a bad background for a great one.

How to change the background in a photo

You’ll start by opening up a photo in Guided mode of Photoshop Elements 2018. Guided mode is where you’ll find all of the Guided Edits, which are easy tutorials that walk you through a cool photo edit with simple step by step directions. The guided edits are one of the reasons Photoshop Elements is my favorite photo editing software!

Learn how to easily replace the background in your photos using Photoshop Elements. This is so cool! I can swap out a bad background for a great one.

Watch this video to see how the Replace Background Guided Edit works to change the background in your photos:

This was fun to play with! I tested this photo out with a few other backgrounds as well:

Learn how to easily replace the background in your photos using Photoshop Elements. This is so cool! I can swap out a bad background for a great one.

If you’d like to change the backgrounds in some of your photos, click here to download a free trial of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018. And check out my other photo editing posts here.

 

One last note: Since my finished photo turned out so cute I knew I wanted to print it out to display, so I decided to use my easier-than-ever photo transfer method to transfer the photo to a wood plank. Click through to see how I did it in under 10 minutes: easy photo transfer to wood.

This is the absolute easiest way to transfer a photo to wood! No messy glue and it only takes a few minutes. Easy wood photo transfer tutorial.

And find my master list of photo crafts and photo gifts right here. Thanks!

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  1. Judy motta says

    October 21, 2017 at 6:40 am

    Your son is adorable. I feel exactly the same way. Where did the time go. My oldest grandchild is 20! Eels! I would do it over in a blink of an eye.
    I am going to make the perfect chocolate chip co Today my grandson came home from college for the weekend. He will be delighted to bring these back. . (Have to save some for his sisters)
    Thank you. Love the posts. Just joined today

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  2. Brad says

    October 24, 2017 at 2:33 pm

    I would like to try transferring photos onto a wood would you be able to tell me the kind of paper used in your beautiful tutorial? Ty

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  3. Toni | Small Home Soul says

    December 11, 2017 at 8:07 am

    I was in one of your PSE classes at SNAP 🙂 so I have PSE 15. But I don’t use it to the degree that it’s capable but I’m going to investigate what other features my version has that I’m not using.

    Also, such a great idea to transfer the images. Where do you get Tattoo paper? Your transfer turned out great!

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  4. Michelle says

    December 11, 2017 at 8:18 am

    Thanks for these tutorials. I really want 2018. I have the 15 version and I love it. I was also in your class at SNAP and learned quite a few tips. Your projects and your blog are very nice.

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  5. clipping place says

    November 18, 2018 at 10:20 am

    This post is very good and more necessary for us. I love this resources. thanks a lot for this goo idea

    Reply

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