In an embodiment, an image is received having a first portion and one or more other portions. The one or more other portions are replaced with one or more other images. The replacing of the one or more portions results in an image including the first portion and the one or more other images. In an embodiment, the background of an image is replaced with another background. In an embodiment, the foreground is extracted by identifying the background based on an image of the background without any foreground. In an embodiment, the foreground is extracted by identifying portions of the image that have characteristics that are expected to be associated with the background and characteristics that are expected to be associated with foreground. In an embodiment any of the images can be still images. In an embodiment, any of the images are video images.