(idiomatic) Not included in the matter being planned or under consideration; not a factor or participant in the present situation.
(idiomatic, euphemistic) Dead, missing, or incarcerated.
(idiomatic, dated) Not suiting or attuned to the situation; incongruous.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgWhen we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best – no matter how good – is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture. Ben Carson
I dispersed my objects in space and got them to hold together by making them radiate forwards, out of the picture. It's all an easy interplay of chords and rhythms made up of foreground and background colours, of conducting lines, of distances and of contrasts. Fernand Léger
I don't think that I was the only person. But it was about-and here's another little touch of irony- it was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural-destabilization plan. Russell Crowe
After a ten minute prayer, the gist of which was, "Oh Lord, just sing through Mark tonight and keep him out of the picture altogether," I considered the prospect of lining up a great number of such concerts, then staying at home and sending a cardboard likeness of myself for God to sing through. Mark Heard
That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly. Zach Wamp
With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether. Jhumpa Lahiri