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Remove a pink background

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Pick the pink with the eyedropper and it is keyed out everywhere it appears. The numbers below are the ones this tool actually uses, so you can set it up in one go.

#ff69b4 · rgb(255, 105, 180)

Colour values for pink
Hex#ff69b4
RGB255, 105, 180
CIE L*a*b*L* 65.5 a* 64.2 b* -10.6
Relative luminance35%
Match radius at the suggested toleranceΔE 8.7

Why this tolerance

A saturated colour sits far from skin tones, greys and most product colours, so there is plenty of room before the tolerance reaches anything you want to keep. That is why the suggested value is high.

Settings to start from

How to find the background
By colour
Tolerance
38
Only the area connected to the edges
Off
Remove colour fringe
On

When this works well

A flat or near-flat pink area that is clearly different from your subject. Compression noise and lighting variation are expected — that is what the tolerance absorbs. Where it struggles is a subject containing the same pink, and there the brush is faster than any amount of slider tuning.

Common questions

What tolerance should I use for a pink background?

Start at 38 and adjust from there. Raise it if flecks of pink survive; lower it if the subject starts disappearing.

It removed part of my subject as well. What now?

The subject contains something close to that pink. Lower the tolerance until the subject is safe, accept the leftover specks, and remove those with the brush — that is reliably faster than finding a tolerance that does both.

Does it remove pink inside the subject too?

Only if you want it to. Leave connectivity on and only the area joined to the edges goes; turn it off and every matching pixel goes, including enclosed gaps.

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