The photo won’t blend seamlessly into a white background yet though – the edges are still a little gray. See where I scribbled with pure white below?
Here’s what I do. I use a white paintbrush to go all the way around the edges. This way, I know the edges will be pure white. Here’s what the photo looks like with the levels off:Next I go in and blend the edges a bit with the paintbrush set at a lower opacity. I use a Wacom Tablet, so I have pretty good control over the brush. If you’re using a mouse, it’s a little harder to be accurate, so it may help to select your object with the lasso or make a work path with the pen, and then select the inverse so that you’re only working on the background.With the levels turned on again, here’s the finished photo:I hope you found this helpful! If you’d like to try a different technique, there are a ton of tutorials out there. Lindsay Landis also wrote an excellent guide over at The Switchboards. Happy photo-taking!
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