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.
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.
This is one that I find interesting to train with because the background and the foreground are so similar. I have no idea where they bought the images but the photographers have an interesting eye.
My main diversions tend to be more automation and layout oriented...which is my daily bread. I do have great fun recreating magazine covers and posters, a kind of "how would I do this" type of thing. But mainly I grab design/layout problems from various closed FB groups and forums and automate them.
I tend to pick problems that tickle my fancy, I used to do this stuff in Corel Knockout but it no longer runs in 64 bit Windows. Akvis knocks this stuff out in seconds and a real dollar job can take 30 minutes or more. The one above is going to kill me or make me stronger.