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 might unintentionally be in the background of your pictures. Remove image backgrounds is also a good way to get a stand-alone image of yourself to then place in front of a different background. For example, I could take a picture of myself at my local ski mountain then replace the background so that I look like I’m climbing Mount Everest. 

In the following video I provide demonstrations of four quick and easy ways to remove the background from your images. One way to use this with students is to have them place themselves in front of landmarks of the world then write about their virtual visit to those landmarks.
In the video above I demonstrated how to remove image backgrounds with the following free tools:
PowerPointRemove.bgAdobe Creative Cloud ExpressCanva