Clipping Path Service Vs. Photo Masking Service!

14/03/2020/16 Comments/in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials /by Arian Rahman

What is Clipping Path Service?

Clipping path is a technique, used in the field of image processing industry to cut out the required object from its background. The uses of pen tool in Adobe Photoshop allows us to cut out a picture from its background by drawing paths around it. After carefully outlining the image, everything within the path is retained while the elements outside are deleted and replace with white background or any other background.

The best example is cutting photos out of a magazine—removing the background so only the subject is left in the picture. This technique also allows to save the image file as PNG Transparent Background which may allow you to use your photo in different platforms. Removing background can be done by some automation softwares available online but this will not help you to get a perfect eye catching image. So our adobe photoshop experts use pen tool in photoshop to remove photo background to get a fine detailed output.

Clipping Path Sample Image

What is Image Masking Service?

Image masking is an image processing technique that allows us to remove the non required object from a photo, which photographs have blurred/fuzzy edges, transparent or hair portions. Add masks in photo editing allows us to preserve portions of an image that we are satisfied with whilst simultaneously altering aspects of the rest of the image. Photo Masking Service simply adds a mask or a shield to the unique photo. This technique is applied when clipping path technique doesn’t provide the desired accuracy. Human hair, feather, and smoke are few examples where image masking tactic is applied. It is a non-destructive process of image editing.

Photo Masking Sample Image

Tools for Clipping Path & Photo Masking

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You can do photo masking for hair/blurry edges using many different kinds of techniques in Adobe Photoshop. We typically use Quick Selection tool to select the major portions of the object and then we use Background Eraser Tool to get the best result.

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To make a hand-drawn clipping path we must use the pen tool in Adobe Photoshop.

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All About Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

13/03/2020/20 Comments/in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials /by Arian Rahman

This is an Adobe Photoshop Tutorial where you will find the latest news and updates about Adobe Photoshop CC 2020. I will first list down the new features that has been add to the new photoshop software. Then I will explain each feature briefly. Hopefully, this guide will help you to get some new knowledge about Adobe Photoshop CC 2020.

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor which is very popular among the people who works with multimedia. This software has developed and published by Adobe Inc. for Windows and macOS. This software is the most photo editing software because of raster graphics editing. Photoshop can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers. It can also supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models. Photoshop uses its own PSD and PSB file formats to support these features.

Photoshop 2020 was released on November 4, 2019. With the February 2020 update (Version 21.1.0) Photoshop now can iteratively fill multiple areas of an image without having to leave content-aware fill workspace, GPU based improved lens blur quality and including performance improvements.

Adobe has updated their photoshop in many ways such as, new properties panel, enhanced transform warp, new keyboard shortcuts and background image removal option. It also added several improvements to the new content, one-click zoom to a layer’s contents, animated GIF support and much more.

List of NEW FEATURES OF ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC 2020

Object Selection Tool
Transform Behavior
Rotating Brush Tool
Photoshop Cloud Document
Photoshop Smart Object

New Features of Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

Object Selection Tool:

This is my one of the favorite features in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020. You can find it in toolbar. The quick selection tool is no longer the default tool. The object selection tool works a lot like the select subject feature. The way it works is, you can simply click on select subject. Photoshop’s artificial intelligence uses machine learning technology to make a selection out of the main subject of the image. What the object selection tool allows you to do is, apply that same command, but you can define the area. If you select a particular area then you will notice that the selection works better than before. That is the new feature here in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020.

If you are not getting the appropriate results, you can always come back and continue fine tuning the selection using any of the other selection tools like the Lasso Tool. So, ‘Object Selection Tool’ is the first featutre in new Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 that I have just described.

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Transformed Behavior:

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 now has a consistent transformed behavior. If you remember in a couple of releases ago, Photoshop changed the way it constrained when you transformed. So, when you click and direct a transformer selection, you still have to hold shift to keep it constrained.

Some people like that, and it’s understandable. Muscle memory makes you always hit that shift key, and now when you hit that shift key and constraint it proportionately. In the previous list of photoshop, adobe added feature of enabling the old way of doing this. Now, with Adobe Photoshop CC 2020, when you press Ctrl+ T to transform, you will see a chain list icon in the menu bar. Now that chain link icon is tied to that behavior. So this chain-link icon determines the behavior for the shift key when transforming layers and they will affect all layers equally pixels and vectors.

Rotating Brush Tool:

The nest feature is great new addition for those people who paint and illustrate in Photoshop. In the previous version of Adobe Photoshop CC, we could not able to rotate the head of the brush tool while painting. In the new Adobe Photoshop CC 2020, you can rotate the head of the brush tool. How? Let’s see_

Firstly, we select the brush tool. Then we will adjust the setting of the brush tool. We will go to the brush tool setting and increase the hardness to 100% and reduce the spacing. Now, we have a flat brush tip and we will reduce the size of the brush. The reason I did this was so that I can show the new feature. Now, we have a keyboard shortcut that allows to rotate the brush. While painting, if we tap on the right arrow key, the brush rotates! This is rotating to the right. If we tap on the left arrow key, the brush will rotate to the left.

That was the third new features of Adobe Photoshop CC 2020.

Photoshop Cloud Document:

There is a new file type in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020. The type name is ‘Cloud Document’. The file extension is PSDC. You can find you could document from the left menu bar of your home screen. A cloud document is simply a Photoshop file that is saved to Adobe’s Cloud. If saves as you work and you can access your files from your desktop. In the tab, you will see that there is a little cloud icon to indicate the cloud document. If I work with a cloud document file and close, photoshop will not ask to save the file. Because cloud files automatically save your work.

When you create a new document, and you save, Photoshop will ask you if you want to save it as a cloud document or on your computer. You can obviously select ‘don’t show this message again’ button not to see this message again.

Photoshop Smart Object:

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 gives you brand new feature with smart object. You can actually unpack them. In other words, you can convert smart objects into layers. All you have to do is with your smart object selected. You can just click on it and select convert to layers. Photoshop will let you know that smart filters applied to the smart object will not be retained. You can press ok; the smart object will now get converted into a group.

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 has a brand-new addition in the Content-Aware. It deals with the fill mask. To use this feature, select edit option in the menu bar and select ‘Content-Aware Fill’. By default, Photoshop will select the Auto-sampling area option. If you simply hover the button on the image, photoshop will understand. Basically, photoshop is deciding what pixels to analyze to generate that fill.

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How to Resize an Image in Photoshop without loosing Image Quality!

05/03/2020/22 Comments/in Photography Tips! /by Arian Rahman

In this tutorial, I will explain how to scale and resize images without losing quality by using smart objects in Photoshop. We will learn the difference between resizing and normal pixel-based image and resizing a smart object. We will also learn, why objects always look better. I’ll also include a tip at the end of this tutorial to make sure you are always getting the best results.

I’ll be using Adobe Photoshop CC. Any other recent versions of Photoshop will also work well. Let’s get started to see the advantage of resizing an image as a smart object. Once quickly set up everything so we can view a side-by-side comparison between resizing a normal image and resizing a smart object.

We have taken a smaple image to continue with this tutorial

If we look in the layers panel, we see the image on the background layer we need to make two copies of the images, one for the normal pixel version and one for the smart object. To make the first copy, go up to the layer menu in the menu bar, choose new and then choose layer via copy. In the layers panel a copy of the image appears above the original. To make the second copy, use the keyboard shortcut. This time use ctrl J on a Windows PC or command J on a Mac. A second copy appears above the others. Let’s rename our copies so we know which is which. Double click on the top layers name layer 1 copy and rename it smart object. Press Enter or return on a Mac to accept it. Then double click on the name layer one below it and rename it pixels and again press enter. We don’t need the image on the background layer anymore. So let’s fill the background with white. Click on the background layer to select it. Then go up to the Edit menu and choose fill. In the fill dialog box set the contents option to white and then click ok.

To fit both versions of image side-by-side, we need more canvas space. Go up to the image menu and choose canvas size. In the canvas size dialog box, set the width to 200 percent and the height to 100 percent. Leave the relative option unchecked and in the anchor grid, choose the square in the middle left. This will place all of the extra space to right of the image. Click ok to close the dialog box.

To move one of the images into the new space, select the move tool from the toolbar. In the layer panel, click on the smart object layer at the top to select it. Then click on the image and drag it into the new space on the right. We now have the image that will remain a pixel-based image on the left and the image that will convert to a smart object on the right. Finally, to convert the image on the right into a smart object, make sure the smart object layer is selected in the layers panel. Click the menu icon in the top right corner of the layers panel and then choose convert to smart object from the list. Photoshop converts the layer to a smart object and the smart object icon appears in the layers thumbnail. Now that we have our document set up.

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When we resize a smart object, the object pixels become bad. To fix this issue, we will scale both versions down, to make them smaller and then we will enlarge them and compare the results. We will start with the pixel version on the Left. I will click on the pixels layer to select it to scale the image and make it smaller. I’ll select Photoshop’s free transform command by going up to the Edit menu and choosing free transform.

Let’s scale the width and height of the image down to just 10% of the original size. It is easier to just enter it in the options bar. Change the width value to 10%. Since the width and height are linked together, the height value changes to 10% automatically. Here we see that the pixel version on the left is now much smaller.

Let’s do the same thing with the smart object on the right. I’ll click on the smart object in the layers panel to select it. Then I’ll go back up to the Edit menu and I’ll choose free transform. This time the free transform handles appear around the smart object on the right. In the option bar I’ll link the width and height fields together and then I’ll change the width value 10%. The height value will change along with it. I’ll press Enter. Both versions of the image are now scaled down to the same size and at this size they both look exactly the same.

Now we have made images smaller. What happens, if we try making them bigger? We will start by scaling the width and height from 10% up to 50% of the original size. To do that, I need to increase both the width height from 100% to 500%. But before I close out of the free transform, we can already see what’s happening. Instead of adding new detail to the image, Photoshop is just taking the pixels from the smaller version and making them bigger. In fact, the pixels are very obvious. I will press Enter or return again to close out free transform.

At this point Photoshop tries to clean up the image and blend the pixels together. But the result looks very soft and blurry. It’s not something you would want to use.

Let’s compare when we upscale the smart object. I’ll select the smart object in the layers panel. Then I’ll go back once again to the edit menu and I’ll choose free transform. This time the free transform handles appear around the smart object on the right. If we look in the options bar, we can already see a difference between the pixel version of the image and the smart object.

With the pixel version, Photoshop reset the width and height value to 100% after we resized it. But the smart object is still showing a width and height of just 10%. Unlike the pixel version, Photoshop still remember the original size of the smart object and it knows that we are currently viewing it, at something other than its original size. I’ll upscale the width and height from 10% to 50%.

But rather than having to enter 500% like I did with the pixel version, the smart object makes it much easier. I can just set both values to 50%. To upscale the image on the Left Photoshop just took the remaining pixels from the smaller version and made them bigger, resulting in a blocky image. But the smart object on the right looks much better.

In fact it looks just as good as the original only smaller. I’ll press Enter and return again to close out of free transform. And this time Photoshop doesn’t need to do anything to clean up the image because the smart object already looks great. So why does the smart object look so much better than the Pixel version?

It’s because of how smart objects work. A smart object is just a container that holds something inside it. In this case it’s holding our image. When we scale a smart object to make it bigger or smaller, it’s the size of the container that we are changing not what’s inside it. If we make the container smaller, the image inside it looks smaller and if we make the container bigger, the image inside it looks bigger.

No matter how many times we resize a smart object. It has no effect on the image inside it which is why the smart object always looks great.

That’s how to scale and resize images without losing quality using smart objects in Photoshop.

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Clipping Path Service Vs. Photo Masking Service!

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All About Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

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