![]() Mouse over (or click on iOS) to see the before shot I was pretty jazzed with the results so I have been using it more often lately like when I did this shot recently:Ĭopyright © Ron Martinsen – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Here’s a before and after where I’ve put in a new background from PhotoFrame to replace the ugly white background (mouse in and out to see before and after): The dual color selection trick shown at the end of the video was just the ticket to get the results I needed for some of the tough areas. The video had showed how to do this so I watched it again as well as this great video I found on YouTube: The initial result was great but there was still a little extra work to do for the hair. ![]() I decided to give ReMask a try so I watched a video and followed the instructions carefully for my photo as you can see below: I figured with a white background it would be easy to swap backgrounds, but it ended up being much harder than thought because of our hair (isn’t that always the case). I had just configured my lighting setup but I hadn’t worked the kinks out, so when we snapped a few quick shots the background sucked. I was running out the door with my daughter to our first ever father-daughter dance when I decided we should get a quick picture together. Mark your boundaries in Blue and then fill Green to Keep and Red to Remove ReMask in ActionĪ demo is worth a thousand words, so let me just show you how I used it most recently. The cool thing is that you can be a little sloppy and it usually figures it out fairly well. What you do is put a blue line around the edges that separate the keep from remove areas and then fill those areas with the paint bucket once you are done. To see how it works, check out the window below that shows the basics. This is a product which like onOne Software’s Mask Pro tries to make the job easier than all the cool tricks Scott Kelby teaches in his book The Photoshop Channels Book. I’ve got an arsenal of tricks up my sleeve, but it is just downright tricky sometimes getting a good mask. ![]() ![]() The hardest thing I find myself doing in photo editing is creating complex masks. Here’s my old review that I first published in 2011, and I’ve only come to love it much more over the years. CLICK HERE to see the review for version 5įor the years I’ve been loving the best masking tool on the market called ReMask by Topaz Labs. ![]()
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