Creating a white background for a bunch of photos

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I've seen this question answered before and have studied the answers...to no avail. I am pretty hopeless with this amazing program! Anyway, assuming I don't understand anything about layers or tools, how do I take a jpeg I have already shot, edited and saved, and convert the background only to pure white, without affecting the central image? I know I could manually paint white around all the images but that would take forever and my hands aren't that steady. How can I get the program to recognize that the central image needs to stay exactly the same and only the background brightened to a pure white? If you could help, please make it absolutely the simplest possible. I'm a simple sort of person.

Thank you!!

hatstead · Answer

How can I get the program to recognize that the central image needs to stay exactly the same and only the background brightened to a pure white?

Set the foreground color chip to white
Double click on the background layer in the layers palette to convert the locked layer to a regular layer
Used one of the selection tools, e.g. Selection brush, lasso tool, to select the central image
Go to Select menu>inverse
Hit delete on the keyboard
Activate the Paint-bucket tool and click on the transparent area (checkerboard pattern)
Press CTRL+D to get rid of the marching ants

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