I"ve spent several days (reading/watching Utubes) trying to figure out how to make the background on this artwork transparent <sigh> I have a friend that usually does this for me (in another program) but, I really need to learn how to be self sufficent. Any help would sincerely be appreciated. Thank you!
The question Susie is do you want rectangle tin tin or do you want to cut out and blend the fluffy hair? This a sloppy 30 second job but can be done correctly if that's what you're looking for.
Why is this post under Corel Font Manager 2017? Too easy. Edit in Photopaint, use magic wand toll to select white, hit select same. Duplicate image in the layer manager, delete orig, hit delete key, close and save. Need to adjust just open in PP again and use the eraser tool to tweak edges.
How would you have done that David?
In Photo-PAINT alone the results would have been so so. Color masking and removal of the mask items then a 1 pixel blur. That's a 97% solution but good enough for some situations. If you need real high end print results there is no Corel solution, I use Akvis. Which is why I ask about the desired results.
Standard stuff can be a power clip with no outline converted to transparent bitmap. Take it to PP and put a small blur.
In PP a path create an object blur save as a CPT with a transparent background.
Same procedure in PP but better with a larger path, then intensive use of color mask in the areas behind and between the hair, (time consuming) delete mask areas, slight blur.
A dedicated masking tool like Akvis is much faster. Cutout is not even in the game.
David Milisock said:If you need real high end print results there is no Corel solution,
I disagree, but please let me know why you say this? Why Akvis is better?
Thanks
First it depends on your standard of quality. If you want to mask an image of flowing hair, see all or 99% of the hair and a background through the hair, Photo-PAINT, Photoshop, PaintShop Pro, Affinity, Gimp and all the other image editors are poor choices. You can do an ok job with Photo-PAINT but it will be just that OK, it will be too time consuming and billing for the time will be an issue. In the end it will not be as good as a dedicated masking program
Akvis is a dedicated masking program, designed to do exactly this. It is not the only one, Corel used to have a stand alone program called Knock Out that was really good. They are worth their cost, do a mask in a short time and not only make a profit set yourself above the crowd a nd to your client be worth more $$$.
The thing to remember is that there is a huge difference between web postings and print output. In terms of image editing you can get away with murder on the web, not so in print.
This is my standard of quality. I did it in Photoline in about 5 minutes, maybe a bit more. The original had a gradient going from a medium gray at the very top, light grey around the head to a darker gray at the hips.
Yes, dedicated applications and/or plugins can be quicker/easier. But not necessarily better.
Mike can you post the original please. To judge the end result one has to see the original.
Also if you guys are interested in playing I have some images that I DO NOT OWN but my client said we can play as long as we do not use them.
If you guys are interested in playing these are real world images, not picked to show a good result like the applications programmers do.
Here 'tis...it was part of a community challenge. So not my image. I did attempt to download the trial of Akvis, twice. I have a 50 meg speed and it was downloading at 13k...so I cancelled it both times. But I was curious.
I thought so the thing that the applications do for advertising is use backgrounds that are conducive to making it easy. I have some real life images we can play with. Akvis has a learning curve and it's more of a curve if the images are more challenging. But the more difficult the image the faster it is over regular software.
It wasn't for advertising. Just a forum challenge by another forum member. Here's another one for recoloring...again, not a "manufacturer" challenge, just another user as a community endeavor. They are a nice diversion sometimes.
The forum I participated in at the time did a lot of these. Many members joined in. Not so much these days.
I know it wasn't advertising I was simply mentioning that the success of these programs are directly related to the level of difficulty of the original image. Unfortunately the applications always show the results from an easy image in their advertising.
I'm playing around with several that have difficult back grounds to isolate. The key is that Akvis has the ability to select various colors before you erase the back ground and replace them afterwards. The interface is basically in two levels one a novice user and one advanced, Then novice is like Corel cut out done right, the other more complicated but more advanced with the end game.
These little diversions are how I up my game many times.