In the Quick tasks section of the Project Aspen home screen, click Remove Background.
Last updated on
Oct 26, 2021
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Also applies to Creative Cloud for enterprise, Creative Cloud for teams
Remove or update backgrounds of batches of images, with AI generating the masks.
What is the Remove Background task?
Have you found the need to remove or update the background of a large number of pictures? For example, you're in human resources and you've got profile pictures of your department and you need these for their identity cards. But you would like to keep a consistent background for all identity cards, maybe with the company logo included..
Or you had a company event and you got lots of family pictures. And now you want to put one standard background behind the pictures.
Adobe's new Remove Background automation service allows you to handle such scenarios in an easy-to-use workflow. You're not required to install any software or software license. This is a free service. Just use your browser and change or remove the background of a large number of pictures in one go.
Learn to:
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Click Start and then Select.
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Choose the pictures from:
- Your work in your Creative Cloud account.
- A Dropbox account.
- Your desktop.
Your uploaded pictures are displayed.
In the upper-right corner, if required:
Click Clear all to remove all the pictures you've uploaded.
Click Add to add more pictures.
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Click Next.
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Now, select one picture (from the pictures that you uploaded) to use as a preview for this task. That way, you get a preview of how the picture looks.
Click Select.
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From the pictures you've uploaded, choose a picture to use as a preview.
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Select one or more background to apply to your pictures from the following:
- (Default) Transparent
- Background Color
- Background (image)
Selecting multiple backgrounds allows you to pick and choose the background to finalize.
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Click a background from the ones you've selected and see how this fits in the preview.
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After you've chosen a background that works best, click Next.
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Choose one or more export formats.
You can choose mulitple formats. We will create copies for each format.
If you notice, the total assets displayed in the bottom right corner, shows the number of output files that will be created.
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Once you're done, click Run task.
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As soon as the task is complete, you'll receive a notification, by email.
To start a new task, click Return home.
To view the output of this task in Your Work, click View files.
The first time you run the task, save it. We'll save all the configurations you've made. From then on, all you need to do is run the saved task and change the files to upload. All saved tasks are displayed in the Aspen home screen. So, when you're at the home screen, you can either choose to start a new task or re-use a task you've saved before.
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As you proceed through the steps to run the task, you'll see a Save task button in the upper-right corner of your workspace.
Click
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Enter a name and, optionally, a description.
As you progress to subsequent steps in the workflow, we'll save any other configuration changes you make to the task.
As you progress to subsequent steps in the workflow, we'll save any other configuration changes you make to the task.
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The next time you open a task you previously saved, you'll be prompted to choose if you want to use the previous set of assets or discard those are use a new set.
Common questions
When executing the Remove Background task, choose PSD as the output format. The task produces a layered PSD file that you can further edit in Photoshop.
Pictures must be less than 6000 pixels. If one dimension goes over, the specific picture will not generate a preview. Also, the picture will not be processed as part of the task.
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