Tori - just to be a real PITA, why would you want to change the backdrop?
My reason for asking is that you have a perfectly good semi-environmental portrait and, with the lighting that you've got, shifting them on to something else stands the chance of looking quite false unless it's done very well.
Thanks Jon, yes, i like Christines first edit too. i think that'll really work, if I can work out how to do it
Hi Tori
You could mask out the background and use fade it in hue/saturation, this saves a lot of precise cutting out
Mark, that edit looks a bit drained in colour? No offence.. I just need to edit the background...
None taken. If it's drained then that is in the original, because apart from the window I haven't altered the image.
It's not Mark. It's the TP image resize script doing the damage. Try saving your image at say 600px and upload it again - i bet it looks fine.
Hopefull Christine might post her method too
That's good as well thanks. I'm not sure where to find the graduation thing yet. I'm working on it ;-)