Notice the unsightly white pixels that were left behind.
In the top image of Figure 2, the Magic Wand tolerance was set to 2. Look at Figure 2 to see an example of removing the background on the diamond ring image and then placing that image on a black background. You could increase the Magic Wand tool’s Tolerance setting to eliminate more or all of the old background’s pixels but in any case, the edge of the image will be jagged. The second problem is that, no matter how carefully you make your selection, pixels with the color of the old background will probably stay behind on the contour of the image and will show when you place the image over a new background (which is usually the goal of the whole exercise to begin with). With this diamond ring image that wouldn’t be much of a hassle because you are only redoing 4 simple operations but if your image background was more complex it could become a tedious task to redo all the selections on a fresh copy of the image in order to delete its background.įig. You cannot modify the remaining object’s contour after removing the background and if you are not satisfied with the result you would need to start from scratch. The first one is that it is destructive and irreversible. There are two problems with this commonly used approach. You would then select the background inside the ring and delete it as well. Traditionally, you would use the Magic Wand tool to select the background around the image and delete it. The image we’ll work with in this tutorial is the easiest type of image you’ll have to deal with when performing this kind of task because it has a plain and even background of a single color (see Figure 1). Comparing the two methods and their results will clearly demonstrate the advantages of doing it the Fireworks way.
#HOW TO USE MAGIC WAND TOOL FIREWORKS HOW TO#
1: Original diamond ring image on a white backgroundīefore we start looking at how to accomplish this task in Fireworks 8, let’s look at how this was traditionally done first. Tutorial assets (Zip archive, 411Kb) Removing A Plain Background The Old Fashioned Wayįig. Just turn on each layer in turn to see how your work should look like at each step. The second one is a completed file that contains not only the final image, but also layers which illustrate each step of the tutorial. One file is the start file and only contains the ring image. I have also provided files that you can use to work through this tutorial and follow along each step. I also provide illustrations that will make things very clear. I won’t stop to explain all that each tool can do and how they work in detail but seeing how they are used to perform the following tasks will give you much more insight than dry explanations ever could. It works best on images that have plain, even backgrounds but the techniques learned here will help you deal with this task on any type of image.Īs this is a Quick Tutorial, the explanations will move along pretty fast as I assume that you have at least a basic knowledge of image editing in general and of using Fireworks in particular. With the release of Fireworks 8, users now have access to new functionality that makes this common task easier than ever before by combining the strength of Fireworks’ vector and bitmap tools. This is one of the most frequently asked question on Macromedia’s and other Fireworks related public forums and the typical answers that are provided often describe methods that are less than ideal because they are based on old, inefficient techniques learned in pure raster image editing applications like Photoshop.įireworks has better and more flexible ways to perform this common task that yield better looking results as well as being non-destructive which means that editing the result at a later date is not only possible but straightforward. This Quick Tutorial will teach you the most efficient method for “removing” backgrounds from images quickly and easily using Macromedia Fireworks 8.
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