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Showing posts with label photo masking. Show all posts

Clipping path is an awesome technique to cut out an object from its respective background. In Adobe Photoshop CS5, here are the steps to create a clipping path. Check them out:


  • Pick the pen tool from the tools palette and create a path around the object or the image. An outline is created to cut the object out from the background.
  • Save the path in the paths panel from the panel menu and name it anything you want to. Once the path is saved, move ahead.
  • Now choose clipping path from the panel menu and in the clipping path dialog box, choose the path from the drop down list. Click OK.
  • Now set the flatness value to determine the speed with which you are creating the outline. For faster processing, set the higher amount. At the high value, you will see straight edges instead of curved ones.
  • Save the file in the Photoshop EPS format from the drop down menu. Click OK.
For Better Understanding see the video tutorial bellow:

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Do you know when and how to use image masking in Photoshop? Well, if not, this article is for you only! To put simply, image masking is a technique to hide a specific portion of an image using Photoshop tools. It is quite simple to understand even for the people unaware of the graphics industry.
Clipping masks and layer masks are used in combination to carry out the whole masking process and it depends upon the type of image that you want to apply the mask on. Let’s take a look on the types of image masking techniques:


Layer masks and clipping masks are two types of masking. Clipping masks are used to assign the transparency levels to an image whereas layer masks imply hiding the specific portions assigning the grey, black or white values. It needs proper knowledge and applying technique as a beginner can find issues.



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Channel masking or soft mask is a technique that is used in Photoshop as raster masking. Soft mask requires masking techniques with RGB and CMYK and many more custom channels. To accomplish clipping path, channel masking is the best way as it is perfect to create sophisticated images. Soft mask is a quick method to select an object with proper color contrast in the surrounding pixels.

Channel masking

Channel masking is the right and powerful way to knock out any background of the image having fuzzy edges like hair, fur or thread strands. Such edges are hard to remove with other tools like magic wand tool, quick selection or lasso tool. Even the pen tool has not that much capability to remove the background effectively by creating smooth and fine edges. Thus using alpha or soft mask, you can remove the background of an image nicely.

Soft mask or alpha masking or channel masking is the most effective feature of Photoshop that is in use widely by most of the photo editing companies.I hope you understand the topic well.

Photoshop is a very easy to use tool even for the beginners. In Photoshop layer mask in used to control the transparency of a layer. Sometimes you have to reveal or hide some portions of an image and that can be achieved only with layer mask. While opacity is also an option in Photoshop to control the intensity of a layer, but using a layer mask is flexible to work in order to show what you want and what you don’t. And interestingly, you will not lose even a single pixel of the image using layer masks. 



You must definitely use layer mask if you want quality results. When you add layer mask to any layer, the whole area gets covered with grayscale canvas (invisible). You will of course not see immediate results after applying layer mask to any layer until it’s actively selected at that time.
The invisible canvas that covers the entire area can be painted in black, white or gray color. Whatever color you paint the area with will tell Photoshop about the level of opaqueness. It implies that the dark the color will be the invisible the area will be. Black color means 0% level of opacity and white shows 100% opacity. 
 We also do layer mask for remove white background and other photo Editing purpose.
Clipping path is created and drawn in Adobe Photoshop using Pen tool. The purpose of clipping path is to remove the background of an image or object flawlessly. The results are great using clipping path in Photoshop and the process is not that intricate as it seems to be. Rather image masking service in Photoshop is somewhat complex and especially for those images that have sharp edges. Results of both the services are perfect. Let’s sport the difference between clipping path and image masking services:
Clipping Path

Let’s take an example of image having fur or hair:
Is it possible to draw clipping path to cut the image having lots of fur? And if by chance we do it, what will be the quality then?
Image Masking Service

In clipping path, the fur will not look as natural as in the original image. It will give a look as if the object has been cut with a scissor. Also, lots of hair will be lost using clipping path. So what can be the solution to this problem? Well, use image masking service in Photoshop to retain the originality while keeping the fur and hair intact.
Photoshop masking masks out the background form an image using various tools like color separation technique, background eraser tool and magic eraser tool etc. Depending upon the type of image, tools are used that properly masks the image. And the images having fur, shadow or multiple background colors, masking involves use of different tools and techniques to achieve the desired output.