Removing the background

[J1mmy]

I have a photography I want to use on a flyer. Its only come to my attention when I printed it off that the photo had a light background (for some reasons my screen didn't pick this up). The background which I am referring to is actually the floor which everything is sitting on.

In PS, is there any method that I could use to get that floor transparent, or completely white, as this will be the background of the my flyer? I dont want it to suddenly 'end' as you can see on the right hand side of the image.

Im using the following picture
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_clos...php?id=3840086

[nsdcblue]

Eventhough I do have photoshop, I rarely open it to use it. My preferance is Paint Shop Pro. I do know in PSP one would have to "tube" that picture to have the background transparent. In viewing your picture, it looks like the right side is missing a bit...so you would also have to clone a bit of that flower to make the "tube" complete. In making tubes in PSP i use the lasso to cut around the picture.

[carl33p]

Lasso tool would be the only method I know.

[nsdcblue]

yess lasso/freehand selection tool. the addition of that flower so it wouldnt be so "cut off" on the right you would use the clone brush as well as the lasso....like this http://www.fileupyours.com/files/121609/spa.psd

[surreal]

Or pick up a 30 day demo of the new Corel Paint Shop software and use the back ground eraser tool, I've played around with it a bit the last few days and it works great making a transparent background.

[ChrisDN]

Yep, pen tool + background eraser tool.