A clipping path is a vector path used to separate objects from their background or layer. This allows the objects to be placed on a new background or color. This path is equal to an alpha channel or layer mask, but since these selections are vectors, the outline will be smooth and crisp at any zoom level.
The path doesn’t change the image at all, only when activated as a clipping path it will hide whatever isn’t in the selection. Within our clipping path service, you have multiple options to choose from. Free of charge are a white or transparent background, the file format and the use of an activated clipping path.
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Send your free trial image here to see our high level of quality and turnaround time at a reasonable price for our hand made clipping path and softclipping services.
- 10 highly skilled Premedia Experts from Germany, USA and India
- High end German quality, low Asian prices
- High Volume work with short turnarounds
Get your quote from one of the biggest Outsource and Premedia manpowers worldwide!
What Comes With Our Clipping Path Service
Our cutouts are made a few pixels within the objects so that no lines will become visible with the change of the background color. If photos are taken on a white background, the outlines of the products might be too bright for this to work.
However, if you tell us the background color you want to use, we will optimize the path for it. Many enterprises already use our clipping path service.
Background Removal Service
Especially for background removal, our clipping path service is well known. As removing the backgrounds is oftentimes very necessary, we will make sure your products shine on any platform.
These clippings can be done in several ways, but to make them in high quality is usually a very time-consuming task. Any kind of product can be released from its background with the right tools. As a clipping path service provider, we specialize in cutouts with different techniques, to guarantee best results.
If you need already white backgrounds to be spotless, please have a look at our ecommerce photo editing services.
Softclipping Service & Alpha Channel Cutout
Our clipping path service gives you perfect cutouts of most product images. Though, cutting out people or animals requires less smooth and crisp outlines. Therefore, we offer you our softclipping Service.
For hard edges, we usually use a helper path. To get a detailed and realistic cutout, soft, unsharp or half transparent areas will be done with the help of channels and brushes. As our standard, we will provide the alpha channel for this.
The selection can also be saved as a layer mask, which creates a transparent background, or it can be added to adjustment layers. Just let us know with your order how we should export your project. These different saving options are of course free of charge.
Why You Need Softclipping & Alpha Channel Cutout
As a clipping path service provider, we also offer softclipping. Softclipping, layer masking or alpha channel creation is used to combine an image with a background to create the appearance of partial transparency. It is very helpful to cut out people, animals and other things with hair, fur or transparent areas.
In most cases, we use a clipping path for the hard outlines and a color channel or a combination of several channels to create a rough mask first. Then the alpha channel gets optimized and if needed, hair is brushed one by one to get a natural appearance of the outline.
Photoshop allows us to save multiple alpha channels, creating the appearance of partial transparency in one image. The darkest sectors of an alpha channel are transparent, while white ones are lightproof and gray ones bring out different levels of transparency.
Due to this possibility of different transparency levels, fine details like hair and fine edges are best cut out with channels. If one path or alpha channel is not enough for the way you want to use your image, then have a look at the following masking service information.
Masking Service or Multipath Clipping
If you want to adjust or change the colors of your products or images the way you want, our masking service will save you all the tedious preparation needed. Color correction allows for simple but effective changes to your images to take place, so you have a professional looking photo. This is oftentimes vital in showcasing different variants of your products.
Our clipping path service will allow for any color corrections and changes to take place within your images at a fast and affordable rate. All our clipping experts are highly trained and eager to solve your image masking needs.
If you have images that you need all the clothes separated on but the hair more detailed, you can combine our masking service with softclipping.
Combine Our Clipping Path Service With Color Correction For Best Results
Combine our clipping path service and color correction services and directly get the finished result. We mask your products and give them all the colors you want, if you order both services together.
Multi-path clipping is done as a preparation for color correction. For the outline, we mainly use the pen tool in Photoshop, which is the same as for clipping paths. But additionally, we separate each object and/or all main colors with whatever technique is most suitable.
Your images are instantly ready for color adjustments, which is a great benefit if you have to adjust multiple images or many areas/colors per image. Inaccurate color, color casts, overexposure, underexposure, and more can be corrected much quicker by using our masking service.
How Does Our Clipping Path Service Work?
As standard, we will save all the selections as paths, since that keeps the image size small. It also ensures short download times. However, we would recommend multi-path if the image amounts are rather large. Please note in your briefing if you want to have the masks saved as channels or layer masks.
Sometimes selections with paths result in hard outlines. If this is the case, you can order softmasking and tell us you want all masks matched to the sharpness of your image. We will mask the image with paths where useful, but all unsharp or too detailed parts will get alpha channel masking.