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!
David Milisock said:It is not the only one, Corel used to have a stand alone program called Knock Out that was really good.
I was going to ask you about KnockOut, David.
Any idea what Corel did with that? Let it die, sold it, whatever?
David Milisock said: 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.
In this case(flowing hair) i agree with you. In all graphic design software's is difficult to make a perfect results(for flowing hair). As i saw on yt., yes the Akvis is a good solution in this case(flowing hair), but any other type of background removing can be done very well in PhotoPaint with Mask Tools, Path Tool or Mask from Path .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAji4BL3vjk
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.
All have hard edges (looks like white matting) ,plus add a slight drop shadow to give it a body look, now it's flat. There is also no angle type hair on the edging, cut flat.