Magic Eraser – Quickly Clean Images in Canva
One of the many new features that Canva has released in the last week or so is a new image editing tool called Magic Eraser. This little tool makes it quick and easy to remove imperfections and other unwanted things from your photographs. For example, in my demonstration video that is embedded below I removed […]
Best of 2022 – Image Background Removers
As I do at this time every year, I’m taking the week off to ski and play with my kids, shovel snow, and generally not think about work. I have some of the most popular posts of the year scheduled to republish this week. New posts will resume in the new year. Removing the background […]
Image Candy – A Free Suite of Image Editing Tools
Image Candy is a free set of image editing tools that you can use without having to register for any kind of account. In all there are thirteen free image editing tools included in Image Candy. All of them are quick and easy to use. Some of the free image editing tools that you’ll find […]
Best of 2022 So Far – Image Background Removers
With the exception of the webinar I’m hosting later this morning, I’m taking the rest of the week off. While I’m gone I’ll be republishing some of the most popular posts of the year so far. Removing the background from an image is a good way to protect your privacy and that of people who […]
How to Quickly Remove and Replace Image Backgrounds
At the start of the month I featured four tools for removing image backgrounds. To end this month I have one more cool tool to share with you. That tool is called Strip Background. It does exactly what the name implies and a little more. Strip Background lets you quickly remove the background from any […]
How to Use Canva’s Image Background Remover
It’s not a secret that I really like the many ways that Canva can be used to create graphics, videos, presentations, and simple websites. Within any Canva template there are lots of neat editing tools including an image background remover. It’s available to anyone who has a free Canva for Education account. Canva’s image background […]
An Easy Way to Remove Things from Pictures
CleanUp.Pictures is a new online tool for quickly editing your pictures. With CleanUp.Pictures you can selectively remove objects and imperfections from your pictures. You can also use it to blur faces in your pictures. To use CleanUp.Pictures all that you need to do is go to the site, upload the picture you want to edit, […]
5 Ways to Edit Images in Google Slides
A decade+ ago when I started using Google Slides it was a rather bare bones alternative to PowerPoint. That is no longer the case. Today, there are tons neat little features that you can use in Google Slides to improve the appearance of your presentations. Some of those things are found in the image formatting […]
Teamimg – Collaborate to Make Interactive Images
Teamimg is a free tool that is a bit like Thinglink and Classtools’ Image Annotator without the hyperlinks. Teamimg lets you upload an image and share it. Once uploaded you can click on the image to write comments and reply to the comments that other people have written. The comment threads can be expanded or collapsed […]
Unscreen – Remove and Replace Video Backgrounds With Just a Click
In the last few months I’ve shared a some good tools for quickly removing the background from images. I even made a video about how to use Canva to remove and replace the background in your images. But until this morning when I read this Tweet from Greg Kulowiec I didn’t know of any tools […]
How to Remove Image Backgrounds in PowerPoint
A few weeks ago I published Three Ways to Remove Image Backgrounds With Just a Click or Two. I got a handful of Tweets and emails from folks who kindly reminded me that I didn’t include using PowerPoint in that list. That was because I hadn’t made a video about how to use PowerPoint to […]
How to Remove Backgrounds from Images With Just One Click
In the past I’ve shown you how to remove the background from an image using Remove.bg and Photo Scissors. Both of those tools are great, but they only do one thing and that is remove backgrounds. Canva now has a tool that lets you remove the background from an image and then use that image […]
How to Use PhotoScissors to Remove the Background from Any Image
In yesterday’s Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week I shared directions for using Remove.bg to take the background out of selfies and then use those modified pictures to virtually place yourself in a new setting. At the end of that newsletter update I mentioned PhotoScissors as an alternative to Remove.bg. PhotoScissors lets you remove […]
Remove Image Backgrounds With PhotoScissors
PhotoScissors is a free image editing tool that you can use to remove the background from your images. PhotoScissors is available to use for free online and is available to download as desktop software. To use PhotoScissors online simply go to the site and upload a picture that you want to edit. After you have […]
Picture Yourself in Front of Any Landmark With Remove.BG and Google Slides
Last weekend I published a video about Remove.bg and it has certainly been a hit with many readers. I’ve received a lot of comments and questions about it in my email, Facebook pages, and on Twitter. This morning a reader named Marni sent me a question that was typical of what I’ve been seeing this […]
How to Remove the Background from Your Pictures
Thanks to the ever-clever Tony Vincent this week I learned about a neat tool called Remove.bg. Remove.bg is a free tool that will remove the background from your images. The catch is that it will only work with pictures that have people in them. I tried to use it with pictures of my dogs and […]
Pixlr Mobile – Easy Image Editing & Collage Creation
Last week I published a post about Pixlr’s suite of online image editing tools. That post prompted a few questions from readers seeking iOS and Android apps for image editing. My first reply to those questions was to take a look at Pixlr Mobile for Android and iOS. Pixlr Mobile lets you edit your images […]
Pixlr Web Apps – Image Editing At the Level You Need
Pixlr, an Autodesk product, offers three good tools for editing images in your web browser. All three of those tools can be accessed from the same page at Pixlr.com/web. Pixlr-o-matic is basically Instagram for your web browser. You can crop your images and apply color filters including “retro” filters. Pixlr Express provides easy-to-use tools to […]