The clipping path is the most essential tool in this era and eCommerce platform all over the world. People want to get things at their doorstep by ordering them online. Before making an order people wants to see the clear product image in detail. In this case, the product image needs to be very crisp, contrast, and in a specific background color which can make the product looks great.
In photoshop, Clipping Path is a tool used to create an outline around an image/product to remove it from its background. It is like cutting an image from a magazine using scissors. Sometimes clipping path is called “deep etching”. When the clipping path is applied to an image, the “path” palate includes the final cut, and then everything outside is left behind without the path area only. Anything you might not need on any image (it would be the background or any unwanted object/person) can be removed easily using the clipping path tool in Photoshop software.
Why Clipping Path Source?
How it works
When we usually use the clipping path tool:
- To knockout/remove the background from the image, object, person, or anything.
- To mask out or hide background without actually hiding or removing it - It needs when designing something (like a catalog or anything) using InDesign or QuarkXPress.
- To make the change to a specific region (like color change, shape change, restoring, etc.) on any product, person, or anything.
- A multi-clipping path (in a single “path” palate many individual paths) needs to change the color of the product in individual areas.
When not to use a clipping path tool:
- When we find any objects/products/person with fuzzy edges or hair and also if it is transparent (use the masking tool instead of clipping path).
Considerations:
Though there are lots of techniques and methods removing anything from an image, there are no techniques that can ensure the quality achieved by using a hand-made clipping path using photoshop software and specialists. We use the pen tool in Photoshop software to make the path around the image very precisely for our customers. According to the quality of an image, our experts zoom the image by 200% to 300% to ensure the edge is clipped correctly and this also helps experts to ensure the accurate number and distance of anchor points, which is most important to retain the correct shape of that object/product. Drawing too many anchors of an image result in an inappropriate shape.
Any skilled professionals who use a pen tool to make the accurate path are beyond precise than it is achieved by any automated functions or tools. So, we don’t use any of the automated tools (like Magic Wand to select the path quickly) to create the path around the object. We also tested all sorts of automated software and tools to have a comparison between the manual and automated tools, it is totally imprecise, some parts of the removed background are still visible in the image.
Clipping Path Source is one of the best graphic design solutions firms with highly skilled image manipulation and editing professionals. Nothing matter to us about how many images you might need editing. Simply send them through and get the result within 12 hours.
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How we draw a path?
How we can create a Clipping Path using Photoshop?
In photoshop, creating a clipping path around the edges of the required product photo is quite a simple and easy task. But this simple task is a very time-consuming, irritating, and laborious job. This laborious job is being done by our expert hands very precisely and within a very short time.
We draw a clipping path to isolate an object/product from a raw image using the pen tool in Photoshop. But we always use the tool manually to make the edges more precise and accurate. Most importantly, we never use the magic tool to draw a path of any object. Here is how we usually create a path around an object, please have a look -
Step 1
After opening Photoshop Software, in the toolbox, you will find a tool on the left named pen tool.
Open the picture from your desktop with which you want to practice making the clipping path for the first time. (shortcut on the keyboard: Ctrl or Cmd + “P”) (Picture showed on the right)
Step 2
Then click on the edge of the image with the right button of the mouse, release the button, again click on the right button at a certain distance of the edge from the first anchor. This time you have to hold and drag your mouse pointer. Once you find the outline exact on the edge you wanted to cut out, and then release the right button again. Continue doing this again and again until you reach the point from where you started your path. Then click on that anchor and complete the path. In this process, you are done with only the outline path.
Step 3
After that, you have to find out the gaps very carefully and draw a path within the image. Draw clipping path like the way you have done in the 2nd step. Find each and every gap lying on the image and draw a clipping path on the gap. Continue making clipping on every gap.
At the end of this process, you are now done a clipping path to remove the background from the required product.
Step 4
Let’s see how to apply a clipping path to an image: Once you finish drawing the clipping path all around the image, the next you need to apply the clipping path on the image to get the background removed from the wanted product/image/object. To apply the clipping path, got the “Window” option located top of the page and there you will find an option named “Paths”. Select this and you will find the path you just created at the edge of the product. There you will find the path named “Work Path”. Click on “Work Path” and give it a new name. In this step, your clipping path will be saved. The image is shown below.
Step 5 (Final)
- In this step, you are going to remove the background. To do so, bring the “Paths” and “Layer” palette from the “Window” menu.
- Select the path pressing and holding the Control key, then click on the path that lies on the palette.
- Come back to the “Layer” palette then press and hold the Command/Control key + “J” key on your keyboard. In this way, you will find a new layer bearing the object you needed.
- Turn the background layer off and find the main image with a transparent background. Like the image is shown below.
This is how we draw a path using Photoshop Pen Tool.