Apr 25, 2005 | Knockout Tricks, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s a few simple steps to achieve a background knockout on an image in which the background is a solid color. Photoshop offers plenty of ways to achieve this same affect through various Toolbar tools and Layer Masking techniques. Each technique is most...
Apr 24, 2005 | Knockout Tricks, Photoshop Tutorials
Another powerful selection tool is the Quick Mask. It’s on the main ‘Toolbar’ as I have captured below. Set the ‘Foreground/Background’ color to ‘Black/White’ (D key) and then hit the ‘Quick Mask’ button to enable...
Apr 24, 2005 | Knockout Tricks, Photoshop Tutorials
This method is a straight forward method and involves the ‘Background Eraser Tool (E)’ . This tool finds the edges of an object but instead of selecting the object, they remove pixels outside of it. This tool works best when theres more than one color in...
Apr 24, 2005 | Knockout Tricks, Photoshop Tutorials
First select the ‘Pen Tool (P)’ from the ‘Toolbar’. Then up on the ‘Options Bar’ choose the ‘Paths’ option. Then with the ‘Pen Tool’ still selected trace the area that you want to mask (ie. protect), in this...
Apr 24, 2005 | Knockout Tricks, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s a few simple steps to achieve another method of eliminating the background of an image when exporting the image to a page layout, vector-editing application, or printing purposes. We will create a ‘Clipping Path’ to isolate the nontransparent...
Apr 23, 2005 | Knockout Tricks, Photoshop Tutorials
[message type=”info”]Note: The Extract Tool is not available for Photoshop CS5[/message] Select the target layer in the Layers Palette and choose’ Alt+Ctrl+X’ (Mac: Option+Command+X)(‘Filter/Extract’) to open the ‘Extract...
