Soft Mask in Photoshop

Channel Masking/Soft Mask in Photoshop

2010-03-16T00:30:00.000-07:00

Channel Masking/Soft mask/Alpha Channel Masking is a Raster Masking primarily in Adobe Photoshop that requires Photoshop Masking techniques with CMYK, RGB, and various other custom channels. Channel masking is the best known way to accomplish clipping path/silhouette for sophisticated images. It is an extremely swift and effective method for selecting an object with a reasonable color contrast to the surrounding pixels is to create a mask and then to load this mask as a selection.

Effect of Channel Masking or Soft Mask in Photoshop

Channel Masking/Alpha Channel Masking is the most brisk and powerful means to select or knockout the background of an object with hairy, furry, smoky or zigzag edge of an image which is almost impossible by any other tools like Amateur’s Lasso or Magic Wand tool, Color Range etc. Even expert’s Pen Tool or Background Remover is not able to make a fine and soft path around such delicate edge. Thus, with the aid of Alpha Channel Masking or Soft Mask you can remove or erase the background of a translucent or semi-transparent image, make it transparent or place it another background.

Effect of Channel Masking or Soft Mask in Photoshop

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Photoshop Layer Masking Tutorial

2010-03-12T01:15:00.000-08:00

A layer mask is an incredible feature in Photoshop. A Lot of Graphics designers find it a must in their daily usage. A layer mask is the combination of Layer and Mask. And a mask is applied on the top of a layer. Just imagine what a real mask does. Everything behind the mask is not visible and everything else is visible.

Here I’m going to show you a tutorial on Layer masking you are going to be happy with. With layer masking technique you will learn how to blend two or more images in Photoshop. This is also called collage masking in PS term.

Let’s start.

1. Take two images from your stock photos and open them in Photoshop.

2. Use move tool to grab one image and drag it on top of the other until it is placed on that. It will create a new layer like I’ve shown in the picture.

3. Now click on the bottom of the layer palette to create a layer mask on the upper layer. This will be noticed by adding a white new squire with black line outside its edge to make sure that it is selected.

4. We now have a layer mask. I n this example we are going to use a Gradient. You can use brushes, paint bucket in a layer mask. Let’s grab the gradient tool (G) with black foreground and white background color. Then we have to make sure to set it black and white from the gradient tool option bar above. Any of the other color won’t work as they don’t match with the result. And I’ve set it to linear, mode normal and opacity is 100.

5. As the layer mask is selected, just drag the gradient tool across the upper image. Don’t make it too long because you will lower the opacity of the image. You can see the gradient you have just made as a thumbnail next to the layer.

6. This has given us a very nice blend, huh? The both images top & the bottom are now nicely blended. You can undo the blend and layer mask by going layer mask thumbnail and disable it or may delete. You can also drag the gradient from middle to get more from the left or lower image.

So layer masking is a very handy tool to use in this case. The mask is composed of black and white areas and this simply says whether parts (pixels) are visible or not. Any part of the mask what is white determine what is shown and black determines what is not shown.

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Photoshop Masking best Tutorial

2010-01-06T03:25:00.000-08:00

People are often keen to look for ways to "cut" someone or something from a photo and replace them with another person, or place the person against a different background. They're also looking for ways to colorize a portion of a photo. The trick, of course, is in how to select the person, or area of the photo, so that you can manipulate it. Photoshop comes equipped with numerous masking features that allow you to make special selections.

The ABC of masking is incredibly simple but very mighty. Just imagine what a real mask does. Everything behind the mask is not visible and everything else is visible. I'll guide you through the some easy steps to mask an object of an image through potent editing weapon known as masking. Here I will use the quick mask tool to colorize a part of an image in just easy 4 steps.

The popular idea behind using the quick mask tool is to make a selection of a portion, or portions of your image so that you can apply some correction or effect to those areas while leaving other (unselected) areas the same.

1. Open up an image in photoshop that you want to mask and double-click the quick mask icon in Photoshop's toolbar.

Remember, you can activate and use the quick mask tool with a single-click, but double-clicking the tool's icon opens up the Quick Mask Options dialog box.

Go to the color swatch and pick a color as per your image color. Basically the color is chosen that contrast with the to-do masking image. Red is generally a good color choice for quick masks. But it’s upon to you to pick color. Click OK, now that you've set your quick mask tool options.

2. Now, in the quick mask mode, grab the Brush tool and, from within the tool options for the Brush tool, set the brush size and hardness. I'll start with a fairly big brush (80px.) and with the hardness set to 100%.

Before you start painting, make sure that you set the default foreground and background colors. You can do so quickly by hitting the 'D' key. Keep painting the mask until you have all of the portions of your image is painted over thoroughly.

3. Get back into standard editing mode. Select the part of the area you want to apply masking with any of the selecting path tools. You can tell if this is so by looking for the selection markers.

4. Time to impose a mask on the desired area. To do so simply choose Select and then Inverse Now you can go in the quick mask mode and see the painted color mask outside the selected area. . It will show your final mask! You are free now to save it and enjoy!

You can save the selection by going back in the standard mode. To save the selection, choose Select, Save Selection. A dialogue box will pop up named save selection.

Name it and then click OK.
Voila! You have got your image masked.

Of course, the real magic comes when you apply corrections/filters to the selected area. We'll tackle that in an upcoming tutorial from our site by correcting the exposure of part of a photograph.

In the meantime here's a puzzle. The photo below was created by using the mask to select the main object so that copies of him/her could be pasted into the photograph.

Learn Where to Apply this Tutorial:

· This type of Masking is very much handy in the e-commerce site, advertizing purpose and catalogue business, online retailers etc.

· Products and service can be best highlighted and presented through the image masking where needs correction or altering the color.

Who needs this service?

· This masking tutorial is not just for entertaining oneself. In the commercial field this process of is of great use. Those web and prepress graphics company want to ease their workloads and spend their valuable time in other creativity can outsource this.

· Online retailers, catalogue agencies, fashion houses, advertizing agencies need this astronomically.

Tradexcel Graphics Ltd (TGL) (http://www.tradexcelgraphics.com) is the most skilled and famous outsourcing company to accomplish the bulk amount of this masking solution for 100% quality and cost effective way. So, if you have more files piled up to execute such image editing task take help from us to ease your burden and promote your products. Click us for more information in our website.

Five Fantastic Photoshop Ways to Drop out Background

2009-11-06T20:48:00.000-08:00

Removal of background helps you to excavate an object from an image and use it freely wherever you want. In image editing jobs, background removing is a very important skill. Photoshop gives the way to the designer with several means to do such jobs in a highest level of perfection.

1. Clipping Path with Pen Tool

It is a full manual or hand drawn way to remove the background. It deals with hard edge image. Drawing of a vector path through the outline with every detail and making it a selection – is the way of clipping path. When you dig out the selection from its background it will be an independent image to place in a newer place. This is the best technique for professional image.

2. The Background Eraser

It is an easy technique to handle an image with a solid and contrastive background color. Pick the color to be erased and brush it over and over where the color exists. This tool alone may not work for all images. But it is handy as a supporting tool for certain complexity.

3. The Magic Eraser

It is really a magic for background removing job. It works on same background color that contrasts with the object. But it is not functional for multi-colored backgrounds. It is very quick to select but sometimes select imperfectly. It is a supporting retouch tool rather than an individual tool for background removal.

4. The Extract Filter

This technique is very useful for solid and contrastive backgrounds. It deals with color circle radiance or hollow problem. It is also a dependent technique and need retouch before final output. It also helps other tool in finishing touch up.

5. The Mask

A very professional technique to do job quickly with perfect control over edge-pixels. It is versatile to handle all kind of backgrounds. But it is little harder to grasp this technique than other tool. The very important feature of masking is that, it never erases any pixel; it only musk them hiding. So, any recovery is possible here. Masking is very useful for those tough backgrounds with transparent or translucent object. It produces the best real effect for such image. To know more please visit:
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TGL: Quick, Cost-effective Clipping Path and Image Solution for Online Retailer

2009-08-24T01:06:00.000-07:00

Tradexcel Graphics Ltd (TGL) provides graphic solution for product image to online retailer from Bangladesh (located in Indian sub-continent). TGL delivers clipping path, background removing, drop shadow and some other photoshop services that are everyday necessities for online shops. Here finest quality meets the best affordable price within quickest turnaround time.

Our graphic services are compatible to international standards. Therefore, our clients find us the handiest counterpart as an outsourcing co-worker for their online retail product image rather than recruiting an in-house team for the same. We provide a bunch of related image solution services under same servable umbrella.

Our main services include

# Clipping path: Cut object (product) from an image through its edge to pull it out as a separate image for other necessary usages.

# Background removing: Drop down the background of a clipped image (product). It is very important to present a product very distinctively.

# Drop shadow/natural drop shadow: Artificially created shadow that gives the image (product) a three dimensional look. It helps to put depth in an image and makes it vibrant.

# Image resizing/cropping: Convert image into a newer size or resolution to make it optimized for website. Cropping also helps to give up the unnecessary part of the image and makes it lighter for web.

# Straightening: Rotate or change perspective of an image so that it can get a straight, vivid look. It is very important for product photograph. Product should appear with a straight, attractive, pleading façade as if it has been speaking up for itself.

# Dust removing/retouching: Sometimes it is essential to remove dust or other unnecessary objects from an image to highlight the product in it. A spotless, pristine image helps selling.

# Renaming and Meta Tagging for Catalog: Photographs always named in a camera memory according to camera format. Everyday a large number of photos are being preserved in photographer’s or retailer’s archive. It is very difficult to find out an old photo from such store. Renaming and meta tagging are important for a user friendly online or offline archive or catalog.

100% Quality: Clients, looking for an affordable service from any outsourcing service provider, must appraise their quality on various parameters. Quality of a house largely depends on its expertise and experience. TGL has been working in this pitch since 2001. Our people work in a versatile team, consists of expert graphic designers and creative artists, for production and quality checking. We pick the best among the bests as our employee; we train up them as a world class workman. We offer all related services through a single channel that literally means a total solution to our client. We give guarantee for a 100% quality that never decreases even to 99.99%. Client can attempt a free trial available on our website.

Cheap? Free? Or Cost-effective?: Clients hunt for outsourcing to be benefited financially as these services are significantly cheap. We promote cost-effectiveness rather than being cheap. Since ‘cheap’ hardly has devotion to quality, never we are able to appoint any top-notch people as a cheap workman regarding his or her salary. So let’s be cost-effective. We deliver quality clipping path and other service as a best output for our client’s business. So, we get paid from them. We save their cost of maintaining another department for these. It is obvious that wages and other business costs in Indian sub-continent are many times lower than Europe and North America. Thus we are in an advantage of having competency for low cost quality services. Moreover, here we extend our client’s work hours virtually for the reason that when they close their work at night, we start our hours of daylight. Thus we keep our clients working round the clock. Obviously intense and extensive work schedule lead our clients to cost-effectiveness. And cost-effectiveness has a sustainable hands-on impact on revenue rather than being cheap. We think, almost all of us have some real-life experiences about the ‘hidden stuff’ inside free or cheap.

Generally we do clipping path or other image solution at 1$ to 15$ per image. But our prices are variable and negotiable depending on complexity and involvedness of the job.

Quick & On time: Usually we are able to give an over-night delivery of a bulk amount of job. We settle it according to our client’s requisition and our ability. As we have been serving for retailer websites or e-commerce sites that need on and on updates, we have a strong adherence to dead-line. We guarantee our clients will be tension-free about our timeliness.

We are open for 24/7 with a consistent high-productive production line. So,-

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Any Quantity, Easy Delivery, Convenient Mode of Payment: We are not worried about the quantity of work. It is convenient but not a must to order us a bulk of work. We have no favoritism to quantity. So, we receive even a few images as an order. In that case, after a certain amount of work, we will forward the bill to the client.

Besides, we would like to keep a long term and regular business relationship with our clients. Because, end of the day, this is the first and foremost thing that contributes to our revenue significantly. We accept any mode of payment; any card, any online service that our client suggests. TGL receives and delivers jobs online with the help of a high-speed internet connection, powerful server and FTP. Our own ISP and consistent power backup make us stable and frequent too.

How to Start with TGL: Visitor can easily come into our cordial touch through any means. We are available in all online channels 24 hours. Hence no time is odd time to us. We request clients to feel free for any enquiry and further clarification. Round the clock, our professional customer service wing is waiting to entertain our visitors with proper information. We are available in following contacts,-

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2001-01-24T00:20:00.001-08:00

Tutorial

2001-01-24T00:20:00.000-08:00

Photoshop Masking best Tutorial

1. Open up an image in photoshop that you want to mask and double-click the quick mask icon in Photoshop's toolbar.

Remember, you can activate and use the quick mask tool with a single-click, but double-clicking the tool's icon opens up the Quick Mask Options dialog box.

3. Get back into standard editing mode. Select the part of the area you want to apply masking with any of the selecting path tools. You can tell if this is so by looking for the selection markers.

You can save the selection by going back in the standard mode. To save the selection, choose Select, Save Selection. A dialogue box will pop up named save selection.

Name it and then click OK.
Voila! You have got your image masked.

Learn Where to Apply this Tutorial:

· This type of Masking is very much handy in the e-commerce site, advertizing purpose and catalogue business, online retailers etc.

· Products and service can be best highlighted and presented through the image masking where needs correction or altering the color.

Who needs this service?

· Online retailers, catalogue agencies, fashion houses, advertizing agencies need this astronomically.

About us

2001-01-24T00:17:00.000-08:00

Tradexcel Graphics Limited (TGL) is a pioneer offshore company & our main specialties are Ad design, Image Editing, Corporate Identity, CAD Design, Logo Design, Raster to vector and Web Development. We reduce your cost and add the working hour with your existing productivity.

TGL is the first offshore company of Bangladesh in graphics designing sector. It is running on its journey since 2001.

We have a very well organized team which is bejeweled by the expert designers who are from very high educational background and expert on their sectors. TGL takes pride in building strategic long-term client relationships.

We are efficient enough because we can meet your demand within your deadline and budget with quality that only you seek.

What We Offer

Tradexcel Graphics Limited (TGL) is a leading graphics designing offshore firm of graphics designing, prepress and image editing services. We offer the best design within competitive price and reasonable deadlines. Our major services are,

Image Editing and Manipulation Service that includes clipping path, drop shadow and different types of masking etc.

Graphic design and prepress service that includes advertisement design for magazine & newspapers, magazine/ newspaper page make up or layout services, page compose etc.

Conversion services that includes Raster to Vector service, image to AutoCAD, PDF to text etc.

Website development by using Joomla, Wordpress, PHP and other web development tools.