This allows to view the results and where touch-ups are needed. At this stage you’ll have a mask, which will probably still need some retouching, but which is a good starting point for further work.Īfter the computing is done, Topaz ReMask 5 gives five different previews - Original, Trimap, Mask, Keep, Cut -, which can be seen individually, two side-by-side or four at once. Once done, you can select Compute and the program will do its magic. The next step is simple: draw some lines over the Blue area using the Red brush, creating a rough outline close to your subject and strokes over the area to remove.
Look at the image published to get an idea of what you need to do when following this method. Remember that on the regular mode, you would define the edges with Blue and fill the area to keep with Green. Once Blue is applied, select the Green brush and paint some strokes over the area you want to keep, so the program knows the colours and tones it should protect.
The first step is to change the mask to Blue, using the fill bucket on the left side panel. When the photo opens in Topaz ReMask 5 it has a Green mask over the whole image. In my case, the image has a grey background which I want to remove so I can place the person photographed (my older son, Miguel) in any other background I chose. You can do it directly, as the program works standalone, or through your photo editor, as an app. Start by opening the image you want to use in Topaz Mask 5. The other process, shown here and already documented multiple times since someone discovered it, is slightly different, but offers similar results and, with some images may well give you an extra level of control from the moment you start, besides a faster workflow. The official process – let’s call it that – is documented above and relates to what was shown in the previous article. After the computing is done, you have five different previews available - Original, Trimap, Mask, Keep, Cut -, which can be seen individually, two side-by-side or four at once. You can just use the cutout as a layer in your photo editor – if you’re using one, that is, as ReMask 5 works independently. Topaz Remask 5 will make its calculations and will give you a final cutout and a mask for it, depending on how you set your preferences. You use the blue brush to outline the area you want to protect, then fill with red the area to cut and with green the area to keep (in normal mode the green is already active, so you just use blue and red). The interface is simple and the logic too. The program uses simple 3-colour tri-map technology - green, red and blue - to enable users to quickly and easily extract even the toughest elements - hair, foliage, and transparent materials - in their photos. The final image, created through a change in the background of the portrait It should be noted, though, that the technique shown here works best with images presenting a solid background that makes for an easy separation.
I used the same image from the previous article, so you can compare them, but the effect applies to any other image you might need to work. When I recently wrote about the program I showed the official way to work with masks, but there are more ways to remove the background of one image and that’s what this article aims to explain.
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Topaz ReMask 5 does help to make the workflow easier, and there are even tricks not documented in the manual that help to get results faster. Using masks in images with hair, feathers or fur is always a cumbersome process.
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