![]() ![]() This line won’t be seen in the main picture because it is drawn in the mask. Make sure the MASK IS ACTIVE and then paint a line around your subject. Pick a Hard brush and then double click on the color picker to grab a gray color (about where I shown below) then make sure you have your hard brush (you have to adjust the size to your preference, normally big enough to grab part of your subject and part of the background) and the gray color. Active for this tutorial means that you will work on that space. If you click on the layer icon, the icon displays a border indicating it is ACTIVE if you click on the mask, the mask will get the border indicating it’s ACTIVE. You can pick the actual layer OR the mask. Please note that the mask is related (or dependent) to the layer. Here’s a picture of Pierce Brosnan and we want to remove the background.ĭuplicate your picture and create a White (shall all mask) by clicking the “add layer mask” button at the bottom of the layer palette. It will automatically pay more attention to those areas and analyze the contrast of the edges and create the final mask this is what is called the TRI-MAP (black-white-grey). Remask use the GREY areas to know where the borders or limits of the extraction are. WHITE means SHOW and anything in between (GREY) will act as a blend. A mask is a “physical addition” to a layer that can HIDE or SHOW partially or totally an area of the associated layer. Photoshop has very powerful tools to mask, here we will see only a couple that will be used with Remask. The first part of using Remask is to understand what a mask is in Photoshop. The advantages are that we do not need several techniques nor much effort for the first part of the extraction. ![]() In a future release Remask will include a User Interface (UI) to help create the mask but for now, you need basic knowledge about masks in Photoshop.Īs all “extractor/mask” plug ins, Remask is NOT perfect but it does a great and quick job which may require further cleaning. It contains an action which can be used or not depending on how good you are creating basic masks. I can make the new sky appear or not appear by clicking background or foreground, but it is not appearing as the sky, but as the ground and there is no sky.First of all, Topaz Remask is a plug in. I then add a new sky but instead of replacing the missing sky in the returned image I get the sky replacing the ground and no sky. When I return this image back to Studio it looks right - the sky is missing and the ground is visible. If, instead, I call ReMask and mark the sky as Cut and mark the rest of the image as Keep I end up with an image that is black for the sky and white for the ground and that is the exact opposite of what I would have expected, given the color scheme used in Studio. White refers to those parts of the image which will have any adjustments applied and black for those that will not. If I create a mask in Studio I get white and black. ![]() ![]() I tried to replace a sky, just to test the functionality, so I selected an image, loaded a second layer using the Image Layer functionality, called ReMask, created the mask, returned back to Studio and the sky was completely gone in the newly created image. If I call ReMask with a second layer it is missing when I return back to Studio. Yet there is no such requirement in Studio. Why am I able to call ReMask (5) from Studio without a second layer? I can not do this from photoFXLab or from any editor, all of which require that I have a second layer. I have been trying to use ReMask with Topaz Studio and all of my testing just generates more questions. ![]()
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