Learning to change the background color of an image is a highly sought-after skill that expands its versatility, making them suitable for use across a range of contexts. Up until now, changing an image’s background required Photoshop.
Lightroom’s AI features have dramatically simplified this task; now changing background colors in Lightroom is much simpler.
Before I show you how to change the background color, let’s first discuss its importance, how to select an ideal hue, and why changing background colors might even be necessary in the first place:
Why Are Background Colors Essential? Color plays an essential part in our lives. Not only can it have social and cultural associations, but it can also produce physical responses in us.
Color psychology is the study of how colors impact human emotions, often through art forms such as mandalas and cubist artworks. Carl Jung was one of the pioneers of this field; his studies ranged from mandalas to cubist works.
Chromotherapy, an alternative medicine field where certain ailments are treated by altering body’s energy with color light therapy, dates back as far as 2000 BC with treaties documenting such cures.
Therefore, given how important color is in how we perceive things, why not use it to tell a compelling narrative through photography?
Background color helps convey the mood of a photoshoot and can even serve as an additional visual clue about its subject matter.
Image aesthetic is just as vital. Background colors should complement and draw focus towards the subject matter rather than taking away from its meaning.