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Use it if you want to remove the entire background and only need a transparent background. You can either go for the transparent background look, which is suitable for icons and design objects, Blur background option, colored background, and adding another image in the background. You have four options for Background selection. Use the Defringe slider to remove any color fringes at the edges. Make use of the Foreground recovery slider for altering the details in the edges. Play with Edge Softness and Edge Shift Sliders to refine the edge selection. You can see four sliders here, “ Edge Softness”, “ Edge Shift”, “ Foreground Recovery”, and “ Defringe.” Now, we need to fine-tune the Mask selection. You can also see the four views at a time by selecting the quad window split on the top toolbar. Click on this to select different views for each image on the left and right sides.ĭifferent views include Original, Mask, Keep, and Cut. Next to this option, you can see two square icons with the apple icon. You can uncheck it to see the original image on the left side image without the color masks. You can also see the “Show Trimap” option visible at the top. The left side image will preview the colored mask, and the right-side one will show the actual mask effect on the picture after the cut with a transparent background.
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Once you “ Update Mask”, you can see split preview windows on the main window. So, if you have multiple changes, then I recommend you going for the second option. The Auto-update process will take some time to process and preview the change. Otherwise, untick this option and click on “ Update Mask” every time you want to see the change. You can either select the “ Auto-update Mask” option to see the change previews.
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The software will not allow you to Compute the mask unless you fill all the three color masks: Red, Green, and Blue on the image. I found the AI option to do a better job. Once you complete the Masking process, use “ AI” or “ Contrast” mask modes and click “ Compute Mask” to generate the Mask. Otherwise, use the “ Brush Size” slider on the right side to do the same. You can increase or decrease the brush size by pressing the “ ” respectively. You can roughly mark it with a bigger brush so that the Blue color overlaps both the subject and the boundary. Make sure that there is no Red between the Green and Blue.Ī precise marking is not needed here. Now, I will do the subject to background intersection masking using the Blue Colour brush.

If the area is more, then you can do an outline with a Green brush and use the Green Fill brush to fill Green inside. So, first, I will use the Green brush to mask the subject interior. So, I need to do the Compute, Keep and Cut on the other areas to finalize the mask selection. Masking Process-Continuedīut, here, I also have the trunk along with the bird subject to mask. It does a good job of choosing the main subject. Right-click on it to select the “ Detect Objects” option to automatically detect the subject and mask accordingly. The Green colored Brush and Fill option is to mark the interior of the subject to be masked. It is the Cut mask.īlue color mask is to mark the intersection of the actual subject and its boundary, which will be overlapping. Each of these tools will have three colored icons in Blue, Green, and Red.īy Default, the Red Mask will be there on top of the image. You can see two options, “ Brush” and “ Fill” for masking. On the right side edit panel, you can see the “ Mask” module. I will use one of my pictures of Fire-tailed Myzornis bird photographed from Mishmi Hills, Arunachal Pradesh, India. You can either drag and drop an image into it or use the “ Open Image” option from the “ File” dropdown menu.

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So, make sure to keep sufficient free space in your computer hard drive. It takes around 2.2 GB of hard drive space for installation.
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I will download the 30-day free Topaz Mask AI trial version. I will review Topaz Mask AI on my MacBook Air with the following specifications. You can use it as a stand-alone application as well as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop or Topaz Studio 2.
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Mask AI is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS.
