• Adobe Photoshop

  Need help with complex masking – software suggestions?

  Posted by Annie Sweeney on February 25, 2009 at 7:42 pm

  Hi

  I am fairly new to Photoshop (CS3) and am taking classes but I am finding that with my own work I have difficult situations when trying to remove or change a background on my photos. You know, hair, trees, those things that just defy you from marking around them and in between them and getting a professional look. I am going bald trying to get a photo of my son out of a like colored unattractive, background and into a plain softly colored complementary background. His hair gets cut off, edges of his body insist on attaching themselves to the background, I can’t get that bit of the background in the curls of his hair etc.

  I have noticed some software online that supposedly makes masking/layers easy. Hah!? Can anyone tell me if there really is some good software that can help me with my masking traumas so that I can get a clean, professional looking masking separation? Right now I just want to throw the whole thing out the window.

  Thanks in advance
  Annie

  Jori Curry replied 17 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Richard Harrington

  February 28, 2009 at 2:56 am

  Download demo to Vertus Fluid mask

  Also watch Cow Photoshop tutorials on Masking and Calculations

  Richard M. Harrington, PMP

  Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork
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  Gil Dizon

  March 10, 2009 at 1:56 pm

  Thank you, I will also try your suggestions for masking being that I’m new to photoshop.

  Red Worms Worm Bin
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  Jori Curry

  March 10, 2009 at 8:15 pm

  I suggest Mask Pro 4 (https://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=4). It’s probably the best masking software on the market, and eliminates having to use Alpha Channels for high end masking. Good luck!

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