Photoshop Masking Allows Easy Change of Background

You have the most beautiful picture of you and your wife together but there is just one problem. There is no romantic Eiffel Tower in the background but the messy city traffic. Well, you can surely remove the background from the photo but the process could be time consuming and frustrating.

This is where Photoshop Masking comes at your rescue. It is amongst the best techniques for image manipulation that gets even the composite image out of its background. Photoshop masking can help you easily extract only the image you require and perhaps cherish, from its unwanted background. The technique offers you to cut your image and take out the original background.

Photoshop Masking makes use of various channels of techniques to isolate your most complex pictures from their background with fine and clean edges. The various techniques of Photoshop Masking include Alpha Channel Masking, Photoshop Collage Masking, Translucent Image Masking, Photoshop Transparency Masking and Advanced Layer Masking. Advanced Layer Masking is known as Complex Layer Masking as well. The Alpha Channel Masking is the most used technique to remove the background from most arduous pictures. Through Alpha Channel Masking, the image is extracted finely and put in front of a new coveted background.

Photoshop Masking helps the offering various utilities through its service. These include changing and customizing the backgrounds, creating transparency, removing background colors, creating presentable advertisements for companies, save the original for later usage, removing shadows from the image, and giving the pictures in the image a smooth finish. The image to be masked can be intended from stock photo as well as from any image source.

Various companies to create the catalogues for their products use Photoshop Masking. The most used tools for extracting the images are lasso tool, pen tool and magic eraser tool. Photoshop Masking technique, when used along with Clipping Path, helps in removal of undesired background from the most difficult images that are to be used on websites for advertising for e-commerce. At times, Clipping Path fails on complex parts of the images such as fur, hair and translucent and semi-transparent photos such as light effects, flames, chiffon, feathers, muslin and glasses.