When you want to hide a portion of an image, such as the background, you can create clipping paths to hide the unwanted image elements or by alpha channels which is another type of image masking, which defines a selection in black, white, and varying shades of Gray pixels. These are two commonly used methods to eliminate photo background. The difference between the alpha channels and clipping path?
Clipping path
A clipping path is a non-printing line that encloses one or more areas of a raster image. They are separate objects within an image. One common use of a path is to remove the background of a photo and create the illusion of transparency. Paths can also be used to extract individual objects or create non-rectangular shapes. Clipping path is useful for usual simple photo background editing.
Alpha Channels
Alpha channels are bitmap masks with transparency. They have both transparent and opaque areas. Typically, alpha channels are used in photo or video compositing. Some programs can create a clipping path from the alpha channel information stored in an image. Alpha channels are basically specialized selection processes. Alpha channels are used to make, store or edit selections made using tools such as Lasso, Magic wand or Pen tool. Alpha channel is another type of image masking. When we say mask, it is an 8-bit channel using 256 levels of Gray, ranging from 0(black) to 255(white). With that being said, alpha channel is a masking technique which defines a selection in black, white, and varying shades of Gray pixels. White acts as the selected pixels; black acts as the unselected area and the levels of Gray define what is partially unselected or selected depending on your view point. Alpha channels is ideal for more complicated photo editing such as hair masking and etc.
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Photoshop Clipping Path (PCP)
Ariful Islam
Marketing Manager
photoshopclippingpath.us
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
“Antidote to Unreasonable Cost and frustrations”
One day, when I met my cousin brother in a festival, he said “ Brother, very often I knock the graphic design firms to make garment industry catalog, brochure, poster, bill boards and work related to graphic design, but they do not provide me with satisfactory/quality service maintaining deadline in a cost effective manner. Can you find me a solution to get rid of this problem?”
I replied “Man! You are surely living in the primitive age. Why don't you look for the profitable and quality service provider firm through INTERNET? You will see Photoshopclippingpath.us.,a graphic design firm from U.S.A., providing production facility located in Indian subcontinent. which is always customer-oriented and flexible to any rational condition to the clients for image manipulation task. They are 24X7 professional service provider and maintain strict deadline."
Readers, here I just brought into light a part of my brother's afore said words. I am working in Photoshopclippingpath.us. in official sector. As I have experienced the astonishing image manipulation task of the graphic artists with a simple image so it has really increased my eagerness about graphic design. I make sure to learn the art of clipping and masking from the talented graphic professionals’ in my leisure.
Though I am not a professional graphic designer,yet I have the courage to explore things through Internet. But I do really want to share the acquired knowledge on " How To" on clipping path and layer masking procedure in Photoshop.
Clipping path makes all the possibility in an image initially. Because whenever we will take our inspired selected part of an image to another background for further intention, then we are to cut off that part first. There is no other alternative way to show the magic.
Procedure of clipping path:
We see two images. We first run Adobe Photoshop software and open a stored image from the File menu. Selecting the layer in the layer palate we will click on pen tool and a selected nib icon will be (path) appeared under the Manu bar and we will select on the path. Some times automatically it is selected.
Before starting path in an image we will zoom the image pressing Ctrl and + and move it pressing space bar to have accurate path. When a curve situation will arrive in the image we will outline curve and pressing Alter we will broke it in the line. After completing the path we will make selection pressing the right button of the mouse on the image. Next copying or cutting it we will place it in a new layer. A new layer is taken clicking create a new layer icon below the layer palate. This way it will be easily movable as our wish. Then, we will save it from the File menu as jpg format. A clipped path image will be useful for any further editing on Quark Press, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand, etc. What is noticeable in clipping path is it takes more practices to be expert and slow operation to make it alright.
Before
After
Photoshop masking:
Masking is hiding a section of an image, exhibiting any thing with glaze to create acceptance to others, to show a false image as the real and alive and adjusting an image with the background layer.
Photoshop masking is subdivided into different categories depending on the techniques applied to them. The most known forms are layer masking, Complex Layer Masking, Alpha Channel Masking, Transparency Masking, Translucent Image Masking and more. I just tried to show how a possible masking effect is created for a flying airplane image on water.
Firstly, we will run Adobe Photoshop and open a stored image as for example water scenery as a background layer from the file menu in the Manu bar.
Again we will take another image (i.e. an airplane) as the same way from the file menu and clipping it with Pentool we will place it (only plane) on the background layer and close the old layer.
Now, selecting the clipped image on the layer palate we will click on the add layer mask, a white circle below the layer palate. Now clicking on the gradient tool in the tool box we will see a black & white gradient icon in the option bar appeared.
It is to remember that if the gradient in the option bar appears at multicolor than we are to make it black & white by double clicking on it. When double clicked will be made on the gradient icon than a dialogue box will be appeared and we will apply black & white. We can do another alternative way by making foreground color white and black ground color black in the tool box. Without having gradient color black & white it is not feasible to create masking effect.
As gradient tool has been selected now we will drag on the image and thus we will see that the image has been mixed up with the back ground layer and has created a masking effect.
layer masking effect
Actually, if we learn these "HOW TO" we can make the best use of our time and contribute to our personal and social need. Again a task done by own self is hundred times better than done by others as it satisfies us and act as an antidote to unprovoked cost and frustration.
Photoshop Clipping Path (PCP)
Ariful Islam
Marketing Manager
photoshopclippingpath.us
I replied “Man! You are surely living in the primitive age. Why don't you look for the profitable and quality service provider firm through INTERNET? You will see Photoshopclippingpath.us.,a graphic design firm from U.S.A., providing production facility located in Indian subcontinent. which is always customer-oriented and flexible to any rational condition to the clients for image manipulation task. They are 24X7 professional service provider and maintain strict deadline."
Readers, here I just brought into light a part of my brother's afore said words. I am working in Photoshopclippingpath.us. in official sector. As I have experienced the astonishing image manipulation task of the graphic artists with a simple image so it has really increased my eagerness about graphic design. I make sure to learn the art of clipping and masking from the talented graphic professionals’ in my leisure.
Though I am not a professional graphic designer,yet I have the courage to explore things through Internet. But I do really want to share the acquired knowledge on " How To" on clipping path and layer masking procedure in Photoshop.
Clipping path makes all the possibility in an image initially. Because whenever we will take our inspired selected part of an image to another background for further intention, then we are to cut off that part first. There is no other alternative way to show the magic.
Procedure of clipping path:
We see two images. We first run Adobe Photoshop software and open a stored image from the File menu. Selecting the layer in the layer palate we will click on pen tool and a selected nib icon will be (path) appeared under the Manu bar and we will select on the path. Some times automatically it is selected.
Before starting path in an image we will zoom the image pressing Ctrl and + and move it pressing space bar to have accurate path. When a curve situation will arrive in the image we will outline curve and pressing Alter we will broke it in the line. After completing the path we will make selection pressing the right button of the mouse on the image. Next copying or cutting it we will place it in a new layer. A new layer is taken clicking create a new layer icon below the layer palate. This way it will be easily movable as our wish. Then, we will save it from the File menu as jpg format. A clipped path image will be useful for any further editing on Quark Press, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand, etc. What is noticeable in clipping path is it takes more practices to be expert and slow operation to make it alright.
Before
After
Photoshop masking:
Masking is hiding a section of an image, exhibiting any thing with glaze to create acceptance to others, to show a false image as the real and alive and adjusting an image with the background layer.
Photoshop masking is subdivided into different categories depending on the techniques applied to them. The most known forms are layer masking, Complex Layer Masking, Alpha Channel Masking, Transparency Masking, Translucent Image Masking and more. I just tried to show how a possible masking effect is created for a flying airplane image on water.
Firstly, we will run Adobe Photoshop and open a stored image as for example water scenery as a background layer from the file menu in the Manu bar.
Again we will take another image (i.e. an airplane) as the same way from the file menu and clipping it with Pentool we will place it (only plane) on the background layer and close the old layer.
Now, selecting the clipped image on the layer palate we will click on the add layer mask, a white circle below the layer palate. Now clicking on the gradient tool in the tool box we will see a black & white gradient icon in the option bar appeared.
It is to remember that if the gradient in the option bar appears at multicolor than we are to make it black & white by double clicking on it. When double clicked will be made on the gradient icon than a dialogue box will be appeared and we will apply black & white. We can do another alternative way by making foreground color white and black ground color black in the tool box. Without having gradient color black & white it is not feasible to create masking effect.
As gradient tool has been selected now we will drag on the image and thus we will see that the image has been mixed up with the back ground layer and has created a masking effect.
layer masking effect
Actually, if we learn these "HOW TO" we can make the best use of our time and contribute to our personal and social need. Again a task done by own self is hundred times better than done by others as it satisfies us and act as an antidote to unprovoked cost and frustration.
Photoshop Clipping Path (PCP)
Ariful Islam
Marketing Manager
photoshopclippingpath.us
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Benefits of manual clipping path
Most of the time you will notice that customers ask you to provide a wonderful background in lieu of damaged, old and scratched one in an image to promote his different intentions. Though erasing of this kind of uninspired pixel in an image is feasible by means of many other tools like magic wand tool, the Lasso tool, the Polygonal Lasso tool, the Magnetic Lasso tool etc, yet to provide superior, perfect and alive image and quality service you will have to use the manual clipping path tool for rectifying and giving smooth edge. The manual pen tool will ensure the selection of the area without changing or modifying a single pixel in an image. After clipping path you will get a bitmap image within a vector path which is saved as the EPS format. EPS format is a file that contains both the vector and bitmap data in the same image. So, this image can be used not only in Photo shop directly but also in Quark Press, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Macro media Free Hand and CorelDraw as a vector object for farther design. It is user friendly for the PDF also. As a result clipping path with pen tool in an image is being user friendly to the graphic designers and experts all the time now.
Md. Afzalur Rahman
e-marketing executive
Md. Afzalur Rahman
e-marketing executive
Thursday, March 19, 2009
What is clipping path?
Simply clip means to cut out or cut off an object. Path means an outline. So, clipping path means erasing or cutting off selected outline of an object from the background. The object becomes movable to any other inspired background while clipped. Clipping path is done with pen tool in graphic design. At first the outline is drown then the background is knocked out.
Ariful Islam
Marketing Manager
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Ariful Islam
Marketing Manager
proactiveinfotrade
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