Remove a background of a Brown table

[lukeschwab]

I have been trying several things but I am unable to convert my background of my table into a "White" or transparent background. My images all have a brown background from my table at my house and I want the table removed from the images. I tried several modification but I was unsuccessful. Does anyone know now to remove the brown background table from this image? The table also has nicks in it and some shadowing that is hard to get around: The image is at the following link on my ebay website for shown below:

"http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Mizuno-Irons-MP- ... ~60_57.JPG"

[anthony]

Brown is a very hard color as it is neither a primary or secondary color. in fact it is almost short of being no color at all.

For example CMYK has a black channel as a printer using just cyan. magenta, and yellow inks generates murky brown rather than black!

The color does not separate as a hue, so chroma keying does not work either.

Really unless you can find a really on-ball colorspace I doubt it there is a simple solution, except maybe recoloring the image using a hand genrerated HALD color mapping image
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/color_mods/#hald-clut

The brown deaktop is also not uniform but has light spots, and dark shadow areas. That means it isn't just brown, but a whole range of colors.

Further you have reflective surfaces on the foreground object. This means you not only have a brown desktop, but a brown desktop reflection!

Now that last is a real show stopper!

Your only practical solution many be a hand generated mask.