Mar 16, 2007, 17:23
I'll be the first to admit that I don't know everything about photoshop... 
Today I discovered that there's a tool called clipping path, which allows you to select and "knock-out" areas of your image so you can easily extract a region and use it in another composition. An example is given in this article:
http://www.sketchpad.net/paths3.htm
In the past, I always used the selection (lasso) tool and painstakingly outlined stuff that I wanted to knock out... I guess there's more than one way to do things, but now I'm better educated, I guess!
(I've always wondered what that "paths" tab was there for...!)
Did you know that there are even professional clipping path services where you upload your image to them and they create clipping paths for you? They're not cheap either, ranging from around $2 per path to $17.50 per hour...
Clipping Path Service
Today I discovered that there's a tool called clipping path, which allows you to select and "knock-out" areas of your image so you can easily extract a region and use it in another composition. An example is given in this article:http://www.sketchpad.net/paths3.htm
In the past, I always used the selection (lasso) tool and painstakingly outlined stuff that I wanted to knock out... I guess there's more than one way to do things, but now I'm better educated, I guess!
(I've always wondered what that "paths" tab was there for...!) Did you know that there are even professional clipping path services where you upload your image to them and they create clipping paths for you? They're not cheap either, ranging from around $2 per path to $17.50 per hour...
Clipping Path Service