So it seems that there are many blogs–primarily from France–in which literally hundreds of images have been removed from their backgrounds, edges fuzzed, and offered for the use of all and sundry, and perfect for Polyvore sets. These are called Tubes and have been made using a program not available to MACs. As anyone who has used it knows, the program (dare I call it that?) inside Polyvore for the purpose of background removal is less than useful. So what is a perfectionist to do? This is my first attempt. I first tried by clipping the image to Polyvore, then making a screenshot, taking it to Photoshop, removing background, fuzzing, etc. The results were OK but with much reduced quality. I then went to the original image (before clipping to Polyvore, dragged it to my desktop and dropped it into Photoshop. I will need to keep playing but this seems to be a solution.