Help with a background for portraits

[Guy Fawkes]

Hi all,

I'd really appreciate it if I could pick your brains ....

I have taken some family photos for my grandmother's 80th birthday, my mum and aunts want to make a frame with lots of different pics in it. They were taken at the back end of summer in gardens etc and consequently they have other people, fences, trees, beer bottles etc etc in the background.

My plan is to photoshop all the backgrounds out so that it is just the people. I am just wondering if I should leave it white, add a drop shadow to a white background or ideally, i'm hoping someone can recommend me a background I can add as a background layer on PS.

If anyone has any suggestions id be much obliged.

Cheers

 

[Yantorsen]

find a pic of some nice scenery then blurr it so it looks out of focus.

 

[gazzauk]

You can even make a b/g in, photoshop with just a few different coloured pixels, a canvas of, say 6 px x 6px, resample up to whatever size you need, presto! Instant background!.....Try it and you'll see what i mean.