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reproduce the lighting
effects and color matching

to convince your eye that a
giant USB-C hub is sitting on

the beach. The edge
detection is excellent,
however, and the finished

image will probably look
quite good. You can resize
and reshape your virtual
Here, the Magic Select tool algorithmically selected the white hub
object as you’d like, and you
from the black background, outlining it in blue. But wait—there’s a bit
can use Paint 3D’s other of the plug that Magic Select didn’t detect!
tools (stickers! text!) to play

with it further.
Not surprisingly, Paint 3D

and Magic Select don’t do
nearly as good a job on the
background that it “paints

in” to fill background where
an object was edited out.

For one thing, there’s a
tendency to leave a
“ghosting” or “halo” effect

behind, along with any
shadows that the object or I made one diagonal swipe with the mouse across the plug (with the
Add button selected) and Magic Select correctly guessed what I was
person cast. In some cases,
looking for. This doesn’t always happen perfectly, however, and you
using Magic Select again on may need to add or subtract from the scene.
the remainder will trim those

out. Sometimes, though, what remains isn’t see the repetitive pattern in the background
fixable without more sophisticated tools. forest imagery where the man’s image once

Nothing that Paint 3D and Magic Select was. Because the scene utilizes bokeh as a
produces is going to survive close scrutiny, cue to focus on the foreground, however,
either. If you zoom in on our edited photo of your eye might not immediately notice.

the couple looking at one another, you can It’s a shame that Magic Select isn’t in Photos,

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