Is there a simple way of selecting a particular part of a photo - for example on a website for some personal trainers I would like to select a just the part of the photo of the person and ditch the background.

 

I have Paint Shop Pro (as I got this free) and as far as I can see my choices are to use the magic wand tool - which I find doesn't really do what I want or cropping the image freehand which takes ages and is not perfect either!!

 

Am I missing something? OR would it be worth investing in a better software package to use to manipulate images to put on websites that makes the whole process easier? If so which one?

 

Your thoughts please!

 

Thanks Jo

Don't know about other images packages, but if you really want to get clean cutouts in photoshop, you have to use the pen tool. Because this a vector based tool you wont get any pixelated edges.

i would use photoshop or for simple things IrfanView

I would use photoshop.

If you only want to do this the once, you can download a trial version from adobe.com

 

H

I would use photoshop.

Yes I think that photoshop is a great images editing softwear when you know how to use it.