LazyMask: Clipping path and Image Masking Specialist

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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Alpha Channel Tutorial

Lazymask recently uploaded a new tutorial for the month of April called Alpha Channel (Masking out hairs using Alpha Channels)

What is an Alpha Channel?
Alpha channels are basically specialized selection processes. Alpha channels are used to make, store or edit selections made using tools such as Lasso, Magic wand or Pen tool.

Alpha channel is another type of image masking. When we say mask, it is an 8-bit channel using 256 levels of Gray, ranging from 0(black) to 255(white). With that being said, alpha channel is a masking technique which defines a selection in black, white, and varying shades of Gray pixels. White acts as the selected pixels; black acts as the unselected area and the levels of Gray define what is partially unselected or selected depending on your view point.

To know more about the said tutorial go here

Tuesday, Feb 5, 2008

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Photoshop’s Image Masking Tools

Lazymask has finished the newest tutorial called Image Masking. Actually is not really a tutorial but its like pointing outthe different kinds of tools used in Image masking.

For those of you, who wants to learn how to do the Photoshop image masking better check it out @ Lazymask.

Image masking is the process of marking the background around the object that effectively instructs the Photoshop software to print only what’s inside the selection and ignore everything that’s outside. Simply put, image masking is isolating an object, extracting an object or eliminating a background. Call it as you like but each phrase describes one objective and that is taking a photo and isolate an object in it from the rest of the picture.

Monday, Nov 26, 2007

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Lazymask new tutorial

At last Lazymask uploaded the Vector Tutorial in their website. This is kind of different from the rest of the three (3) tutorials. Mainly because this one is colorful and girly. I hope you would drop by at this page and learn something out from this tutorial.

Thursday, Nov 8, 2007

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Clipping Path Tutorial using Photoshop

Clipping path enables you to outline specific area of an image to show while the rest is transparent. Clipping path is done using Photoshop software, there are more ways of creating clipping path but the simplest method is using the pen tool. This tutorial shows you a simple technique of creating clipping path in Photoshop CS.

1. Open the image you’d like to path. Duplicate the image and make the original image invisible or you can just delete it. Start creating your clipping path using the pen tool (a hand sign indicates the pen tool location)

2. After you’ve finish tracing the image, go to Paths (hand indicated the location) Right click and choose the make selection.

3. Create new layer, before you copy make sure you are in the right layer. Ctrl C and Paste the clip image into the new layer.

4. Done! You’ve just finished the clipping path technique. You can put background color or image of you choice. Enjoy!