This video demonstrates a manual, Photoshop-based method for effectively removing backgrounds from complex graphics, particularly those with gradients and fine details, which often fail with automated tools.
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So, in this video, I'll show you a
method to get the background removed
from graphics like these. Whether it's
the howling at the moon or the very
popular bootleg style. If you want to
create these kinds of designs with AI,
you always have a massive problem with
the background. There's just too much
like fog, details, and differences in
the background color. And I've tried
these with with everything. So,
vectorizer, if you throw them into here,
it just, you know, it leaves a lot of
black behind. It ruins the gradient. So,
that doesn't really work. Remove.bg,
also doesn't do a good job. This is a a
color removal much like Photoshop, which
it it looks okay, but it still has, you
know, all of this foggy
half-transparency left behind. Tools
like ClipDrop as well. This is the kind
of stuff that's built into Kittle and
other tools you might be using. They're
probably using either ClipDrop or
Pixian, remove JPEG, stuff like that.
These just absolutely fail with these
graphics. Let's see if it's finally
going to do it right here. Come on.
Yeah, okay. That's terrible. It's just
taken off most of the graphic right
there. And even in Photoshop, you know,
with the magic wand, it's not a great
result. And if you use the the automated
method here, remove background, it also
fails. But there is actually way to do
this. It's a manual method, right? So,
it's not something that I think you'll
be able to automate. But if you have
some designs that you, you know, you
really want to do a good job on, you
want them to print well, and you you
really want them to be in a bootleg
style or this howling at the moon style,
then this is the go-to method, I think.
And it unfortunately only works with
Photoshop. I tried this with Photopea,
but I I couldn't figure out how to do it
in Photopea instead. So, maybe there's a
way, but right now, I only know
Photoshop. So, let's start a new
document right here. And by the way, you
should upscale your image first if it's
not at at least 4,000 pixels already. I
downloaded this one with a 2K. It was a
nano banana image. So, in that case, I
only need to scale it by 2x. You can use
upscale for that. Or another free option
would dgb.lol.
And what I'm going to do is set this to
the print file dimensions and 300 DPI.
That is very important. So, whatever
you're going to have the design printed
at, use that in terms of the dimensions.
And also choose 300 DPI. Then we'll go
and hit create. Then I'll open up my
design here. I will resize it so it
actually covers the print area more.
Don't get it cut off at the edge right
here, but you want to fill in this space
and make it the right size before you
start the process of removing the
background right here with a halftone
method. This is kind of a halftone
effect that can remove the background
more effectively. And so, now it's
resized. The next thing we're going to
do is head to the layers panel. If you
don't see that, just go to window and
enable layers. And we'll right-click on
this uh design. Go to duplicate layer.
Change this to a new document right here
and then just hit okay. And once that's
opened up, we will go to image, mode,
and grayscale. We just hit rasterize for
this. And now we can start the process.
So, what you need to understand for this
workflow is that whatever is black in
your design is going to be removed
fully. And whatever is completely white
will be printed fully. Anything in
between, so anything that has gray will
have a halftone effect applied to it.
And that way there's no
half-transparency. There is kind of a
mixture of little dots that are going to
be printed out, which looks way better,
way cleaner. But right now, most of this
is gray. There's not really a lot of
white. So, almost all of this would be a
halftone effect and wouldn't look very
good. So, what we're going to do is
select the design in the layers panel.
We'll go to image, adjustments, levels.
And then we'll drag this slider very far
down. And this will depend on your
image. So, you you don't want to blow up
all the way that, you know, your graphic
completely disappears. But you also want
to go quite a bit higher than what you
might perceive as natural right here.
So, I think this is actually quite good.
And it might look like it's way too
bright and shiny right here, but we'll
also slide this layer back for some of
the edges, the foggy edges, so that the
black is going to be increased right
here. If we turn this up a bit, there we
go. I think this looks kind of good. If
we hit okay and zoom in, we'll now have
some gray at the edge right here, where
it's kind of halftoning. Anything around
right here black is going to be the
shirt color, so it won't be printed on.
And the bright white, that will be solid
color. So, this is a decent result. And
we can now move on to the next step. So,
next up, you need to click on image
again, go to mode, and select bitmap.
Click okay for flatten layers. And make
sure that the method right here is set
to halftone screen. Output should say
300 DPI. If it doesn't, then you need to
go back to step one and and restart the
document. And then click okay. And for
the halftone screen, these are the
settings that I've got. You can play
around with them. This decides the kind
of size of the little halftone effect,
that the dots that you're going to get.
And we can also change the shape. I've
just left that at the default. So, 20
and 1/2 and 40 up here. And then we'll
just click okay. And now you will see a
noticeable difference in the graphic. We
zoom in, you've now got that actual
halftone kind of dotted effect. Here,
everything is solid. That's where we had
white. And anything around it is black.
There's no half-transparency.
And now, what we can do is go back to
the layers panel right here. We'll hit
control A to select everything. Then
we'll hit control C. It's command on a
Mac, by the way. So, command A, command
C to copy. Then you'll need to head back
to your original document with the
colored version of the design. You need
to head to the layers panel. Click on
this little symbol down here to create a
layer mask. Now you need to hold down
alt if you're on a PC or option if
you're on a Mac. And then click into the
layer mask, which will look white like
this. And then we're just going to hit
control V or command V to paste that
into here. And as soon as you click out
of it, you'll now see a halftone mask
applied to our original design, which I
did upscale beforehand, by the way. So,
I would recommend upscaling it before
you start this process and not doing
this with a thousand pixels in terms of
your graphic. And now, this has done a
really, really good job, which you can't
really see on white. But if we change it
to delete this layer and then change it
to a solid color background, black right
here, this looks really good. And it's
going to actually print well, look
professional, and it won't have any
weird half-transparency effects in
there. Now, you might have to get used
to the the slider with the levels
adjustment right here, just to get used
to how much you need to show or color in
white and how much should be black, etc.
I don't think I've I've done a perfect
job right here, but that's something
you'll get used to. And I know it's a
bit of a faff and a bit annoying that
this only works with Photoshop. There
might be another tool that can do this.
I just don't know of it. So, if you're
aware of another way to do this right
here, let us know in the comments down
below. Oh, and by the way, after this
stage, you would go to file, export,
export as PNG. And then you'll get your
design file right here. Now, that might
be quite a large size, like 20 megabytes
is this one right here, 22 actually. So,
you might have to run it through Caesium
afterwards to get that size down, but at
least you've got a really neat-looking
design. And this also works with bootleg
as mentioned. So, just to summarize the
steps here again, you want to first of
all have your image upscaled to at least
around 4,000 pixels. Then you want to
create a document at the right print
size, wherever you're selling it,
whether it's Amazon Merch or Etsy. And
make sure you know what those dimensions
are and 300 DPI. Then you want to
duplicate your design into a new
project, apply the grayscale mode, then
apply some levels to create a higher
contrast in in your white and your dark
areas. Then you want to create a bitmap
with a halftone effect. You can then
copy that project and paste it into a
layer mask in your original project to
the original design. And then all that's
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