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MARCH 31, 2003 Extensis Mask Pro 3
New to version 3.0, when using keep and drop colors, you can now also select an option called "Use color decontamination" when the Magic Brush tool is active. This feature is useful for masking semi-opaque portions of an image, such as glass or the edges of hair, which can often produce a halo effect in a mask. For example, let's look at an extreme closeup of our tiger masked use the automated masking tool. The light-blue background helps to show off the halo.  [an error occurred while processing this directive]Then I select two colors to keep and two to drop from the furry fringes of the animal, activate color decontamination, and voila. Before decontamination  After decontamination No more halo. Yet the detail of the fur edges remains. Well, most of it, anyway; the color decontamination feature does require some experience before you'll start getting it just right, but it can be used to great effect. Added to this is another new feature that can also be used in conjunction with color decontamination--keep and drop highlighters. These new tools allow you to define areas of an image to keep and drop, as well as to use the colors underneath the highlight region. In the image below, I've loosely defined the keep and drop areas of my image. In all of the green areas, all of the pixels will be kept; in the red (or in this case gray, with the light blue background showing through) areas, the pixels will then be dropped. And using the color decontamination option, Mask Pro 3 interpolates the colors to be eliminated and kept in the undefined area. And note that with color decontamination, there's virtually no halo whatsoever.  Other "Magic" tools in Mask Pro 3 include the Magic Wand, which quickly masks an entire image as if you were dragging the Magic Brush tool across the entire canvas; the Magic Bucket, which is used to eliminate "leftovers" in the mask and restore portions of the subject that may have been inadvertently dropped; and the Magic Pen tool, which creates paths that snap to edges between the subject and background. With this Magic Pen tool, you can eliminate pixels within the close path region or outside the closed path region with a single mouse click. Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Related sites: • Creative Mac • Digital Media Designer • Digital Producer • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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