If you were to guess what application that window came from, what would be your first guess; Aperture? Photoshop? Nice try, but it actually comes from Preview.app. By hitting Option+Command+C, you can obtain this little popup that let’s you adjust the color levels in your photo. Here is a picture of my sister with a [...]

Selective decolorization is removing the color from parts of a picture. In this picture, I removed all the color from the background. For some reason there’s some noise that appeared when I uploaded it but it’s not like that in the master version.
It looks complicated but it’s actually a relatively simple process. Just open the [...]

Gimp, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a great open-source cross-platform application for image editing.
Photoshop CS3 is “slightly” more expensive at $649, and is another popular image editing application
ThemBid.com has great tutorials on how to use either of these great applications to remove backgrounds from pictures quickly.
Here is the Gimp Tutorial: Removing Backgrounds Quickly in [...]