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How to change the background color in a photo before making it into a graph

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char5 message #1
How to change the background color in a photo before making it into a graph
July 29, 2015 at 7:03:01 AM

Any suggestion on how to do this? I am new to this site and love the idea of being able to make my own graphs from photos, but dont care for the really dark background. Please help. Thanks

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Re: How to change the background color in a photo before making it into a graph
July 29, 2015 at 10:31:39 PM (in response to char5 message #1)

Welcome!

At this time we don't have editing functions available, but you can accomplish what you want by editing your photo beforehand in a graphics program. There are at least two powerful and completely free ones that I know of, Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) and paint.net (http://www.getpaint.net).

There is online documentation available for both programs.

I don't actually know how they work, as I'm stuck on an ancient version of Paint Shop Pro that I purchased many years ago, which also isn't half as powerful as either of those programs...but I know how to use it, so I stay with it.

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