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Clipping Path: A Useful Technique Employed By Image Editing Companies

By: James J Johnson Home | Arts-and-Entertainment | Photography


An Image Editing Company must arm itself with various methods for a complete makeover of photographs †digital or analog †or for providing services related to graphic designing such as Clipping Path Service. Clipping Path Service is one of the main weapons in the arsenal of an Image Editing Company for its advantages in image manipulation, editing or creating an altogether new graphic design. Such companies serve a plethora of clients from different fields †publishing houses, advertising or marketing agencies, retail outlets and government organizations in addition to individuals. Meeting their varied demands in a deadline driven environment thoroughly tests the capacity and expertise of each individual company. Utilizing the available image manipulation services help the companies deliver what is required by the clients.

Know About Clipping Path

Clipping Path is a very useful tool in the armoury of a graphic designer. It is a technique of isolating an object from its original background and creating a new one. This technique is mainly used in image manipulation softwares including Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw, Fireworks, Illustrator, Paint Shop Pro, etc. It is a vector based masking method to create a virtual outline around the target image that needs be detached or isolated from the rest of the undesired pixels or bitmaps in the image. In Adobe Photoshop, the â€Pen Tool’ helps in â€clipping-out’ the unwanted pixels around the image. This can be done by clicking the pen tool and carefully drawing an outline around the image. The outlined object, then, can be removed and placed another image with the desirable background.

Advantages of Clipping Path

Although, there are several options in Photoshop and similar Image Manipulation software to work with image background encompassing tools such as Extract Filter, Lasso Tool, Quick Mask, Magic Wand, etc. However, these alternatives fail to provide the exact appearance of cutout images other than Clipping Path. This option, moreover, saves time in comparison to others while dealing with complex images. It is extremely useful when an image has to be exported to other application for printing purpose.

Types of Clipping Path Services

Depending on the nature of clipping path requirements, an Image Editing Company can segment the service into various categories that includes:

Basic Level Clipping Path: This type of clipping path is done on images having straight edge and takes little time to accomplish the desired job.

Medium Level Clipping Path: Images classified as Medium Clipping Path usually are characterized by many straight edges such as a flower. This requires a good amount of time.

Complex Clipping Path: It consumes a lot of time and requires highly skilled professionals to complete the job. Intricate images, such as human is an example of Complex Clipping Path.



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Author is senior photographer and an expert photoshop user. Author occaissionally writes about image editing, Clipping Path and photo retouching and how it influences common people's lives.

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