How to edit the Background Remover tool

Hello. In this video we're gonna take this image here  and use the background remover that is built into Canva,  and then we'll do some cool stuff where the text kind  of overlaps a little bit above below. I love doing this in combination  with the background remover. Uh, here's some of the other examples that I did, kind of,  sort of that interaction with cut out image,  that's the background remover and what we're gonna learn. Okay? And then kind of mixing it with text so it kind  of looks like it's above and below, I dunno,  adds interest, I think.

Uh, let's jump in and learn the background remover. Alright, let's start by adding a new page. If you're on the thumbnail view like I am,  you can just hit plus down here to add one. Uh, if you're on that scroll view, it's up here. You can add a blank page either way. I'm gonna be a thumbnail view.

Click the background. I'm gonna pick a background color that's kind  of darkish, uh, color. I'm gonna add an image. Okay. We could go to the upload option  or we could do it the quick way  and just go, all right, background removal. Just add that one.

Just drag it on, it uploads,  you can see it kind of doing its thing there and it's in. Alright. Now the background remover is a pro tool. Okay? If you're on the 30 day trial  or the pro version, this will work. If you are not, it won't.

There are free things online. There's a bunch of different websites that claim, well,  they do get rid of a lot of the background. You can go do a search for those. I'm not gonna give you one because they keep changing  and sometimes they get quite popular  and then they get lots of ads and spamming. So there are sites out there to do this background remover  for free, not as good as Canva  and Canva's, not as good as Photoshop  for a one click option. This is pretty spectacular.

I'm, I'm amazed this. Wait for the amazingness. It's called Magic stu. Oh, look at that. Oh man, it's good. It doesn't get a perfect every time,  but every time I use it, it's just a little bit better.

Look at that detail in there. So good. It's really good at like taking crisp edges  and some of the more fluffy ones like it's here. Okay. And kind of doing this nice mix of kind of solid  with fluffy edges. It's really good.

If you do find there is something, um,  you know, that's not quite perfect. Say you want to cut this part out, this kind  of like maybe it's distracting  or in this case is missing a bit,  what you can do is you can go to back and remover, okay? And or you can click on this  and see that's a little settings option. You end up in this kind of new view, okay? This is the background remover view. You've got two options.

You can erase stuff, okay? If the automatic feature didn't get it, I'm gonna undo  or you can restore stuff. So that's how it works. Race, restore, brush size, the teeny tiny, the brush  to get into like little small spaces and use a race even. Okay? And you're gonna use a nice big brush  to get nice curved edges.

I find it easier with a big brush to kind  of do nice broad sweeps to try and trim parts up. Trim part of his belt up. So less obvious that you've been  chipping away with a small brush. Uh, show original, just kind  of like shows you a faded version of the original. Not completely. Just to give you an idea.

Sometimes you need to see like what the heck is that? You're like, okay, missing that bit. So often you'd be working in quite small  for some reason the shortcut, oh, shortcut works. Uh, sometimes the short, the shortcut wasn't  Working. Why was it  working and now not. Anyway, my zoom in, which is command plus  or control plus on a PC wasn't working a second ago anyway.

So I'm gonna go to restore, see what that is, okay,  say we need this 'cause  it's part of the thing we're selling. So we're just gonna rub that in  and then we're gonna go to a race and say, I don't want this  'cause it's quite distracting or maybe not. Part of what we're gonna do when I'm finished,  I'm gonna close it and it'll jump back in. Zoom out a little bit again  or use our shortcut command option zero  Ctrl Alt zero on a pc. Awesome. Love it.

Scale it up a little bit. That is the back remover. Click it, see how good it is. See if you can touch it up with a brush. If you need to go into like a lot more detail, imagine  that tool's gonna develop as Canva develops. You need to go out to something like Photoshop,  but ah, man does a pretty good job.

What I'm gonna do now is add the text  so it looks like it's kind of above and below. Um, you can leave now. It's just adding text  and kind of playing with layers up to you. If you want to check it out, you're gonna  flip 'em over horizontally. Gimme face in that way. Um, and I'm gonna go some type.

Now, when you are dealing with type, I'm gonna do,  I'm using a quote, it's a Tolkien quote. Um, I just Googled cool camping, outdoorsy quotes. And when you're doing this, kinda like over some of it's  above, some of it's below, they need  to be in their own separate type boxes. I messed around. I like that. Gigle on font.

Gigle in. Okay. And I'm gonna start with this  and I'm gonna decide there's a lot of messing around. And often if you're like, mine doesn't look as good, man,  it is tricky to get it to look good. There's a lot of like, uh, can I read that font? I can't.

So I'm gonna shrink that down. Like I like just throw it on the page. I'm gonna copy and paste that. Not all those who wonder. I want to go and edit the code as well to,  to fit, fit the design. Uh, lost.

I think there's full stop in there as well. And let's put in, I'll find an appropriate font  and let's do the layer stuff. Actually let me find a font without keeping you here. I'm not sure why this needs to be on an angle. There you go. So I've got these I'm gonna play around with.

So I want that behind. Maybe that in front. Good contrast against this here. You don't really wanna put stuff over his face. It's kind of like one of the design rules  of like why does this look weird? It could be that you have texts over somebody's face.

That's why I'm getting him facing this way. I've done this before. I've uh,  practiced this before I started the video. That's why I'm kind of just doing it. Okay. But I did spend some time kind of like going,  all right, what should be there?

Should that be there? Should that be there? I'm using the shortcut, uh, command. Uh, first square bracket on a Mac to move it backwards. Um, or control for square bracket to move it backwards. I'm looking for that.

They're kind of like interactive  where you can still read it. I've lost the quote at the end, but that's okay. I played with the size. Maybe we want to kind of go  for three font sizes. Is that cool? Ah, it's interesting.

So this guy's flying. Okay, E up to you. I dunno. What do you think? It's an interesting technique regardless. So we cut people out, which is pretty easy.

Then we did some kind of cool interactions. I'll show some of the ones that I was practicing  With. That's the one I practiced  with. Then I played around with this one with some trees. Ooh, some plants that I found. Okay.

Then I found this guy and then I found this guy  and then I found this guy  and then I spent way too long trying  to figure out some sort of interaction. Kii as well. It says, uh, not who wander or lost. I, there are so many different layers going on  and different sizes. I broke that into two text boxes  so I can get this kind of thing going. It's tricky but fun.

Alright, that's it. I've somehow turned the background remover,  which is one click into a very long  video, but it's kind of cool. I love, ooh, that's what I needed. The line spacing was too far apart. Did I do it? He needs to be bigger.

Ooh, for those of you  who hung out this long, you drag the sides. If you hold down the sides, okay  and you hold the option Counter Mac  and Al Key a pc,  it does it from the center and kinda makes it bigger. I find it's kind of easier than trying to drag it this way  and then go up and drag it that way. Kinda even see the edge now. But if you hold down the option, counter mac che a PC kind  of drags it both ways. Keeping it kind of centered.

Oh, I feel like that's it. I think the trick here is like, is a little bit of, uh, we,  we can't quite see it  where somebody's like the viewer has worked it out  with even the missing bits. There's a bit of like success  for the person who's read it and they're like, oh, I've done that. I've calculated what that says. Even though he is hidden part of it. No, I think that's the kind of like balance of trying  to hide stuff with people, being able  to still quite read it without reading it.

Anyway, that is it. I'll see you in the next video.