Press Release Summary = The Background Remover extracts objects
from images with complex background.
Press Release Body = S-Petersburg, RUSSIA, April 13, 2006.
ImageSkill have released new tool for masking
and object extraction. Background Remover is a Photoshop-compatible
plug-in for Windows designed by ImageSkill Sofware(www.imageskill.com)
that can work with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel
Paint Shop Pro, Ulead PhotoImpact, Macromedia Fireworks etc.
The main purpose of the Background Remover is to extract some part
of an image i.e. “the object” and remove part that which is unwanted,
i.e. “the background”. It is capable of determining areas of pixels
to be modified, areas of pixels to be partly modified and areas
of pixels to remain unmodified. The partly modification means the
restoration of the non-distinct
edges of objects. It is done by reinstating their partly transparent
nature and also by subtracting the background color so that only
the object color is left in these partly transparent regions. This
ensures that the cut-out object will blend or composite correctly
with a different background. The cutting objects may be used for
collage, scrap-book and greeting card creation.
Unlike the knowing masking tools Background Remover is not implemented
as a brush. Background Remover is capable of cutting objects out
from images having complex
background content with the minimum efforts from a user’s hand.
In contrast to majority masking program such as: Adobe Magic Extractor,
Corel Knock-Out, Microsoft Expression and so on, Background Remover
allows to receive perfect result without exact marking of an objects
colors. It permits the sloppiest possible definition of the desired
object by simple marking its colors and background colors in some
arbitrary way. You do not need accurately draw out an object. You
can simply mark colors inside and outside object and press Apply.
In addition you can adjust
erasing degree. The efficiency of background removing is adjusted
by moving one slider only. Unlike Adobe Extractor and Corel Background
Eraser our product does not leave high-frequency noise on texture
background (for example: grass, leaves, small stones etc). It gives
excellent result on simple monotonous or gradient background (sky,
water etc) also. You can receive attractive results and it takes
less time and efforts.
You can cut object step-by-step adding (or removing) object’s and
background’s marks at any moment in order to achieve desirable effect.
Both the source image and the result image getting at the previous
step may serve as the source image for the next iteration.
There are many additional possibilities - you can feather object
mask in order to receive soft transition zone. You can contract
mask in order to avoid undesirable border around objects and you
can smooth boundary contour of the object. For the manual correction
of the resulting image you can use erase/restore brush of Background
Remover. Restoration here is the process of increasing transparency
in regions where it has less than the maximum possible value of
unity. In erase mode brash has hard and soft profile. The first
one is used for the full
background removing. The second one is intended for the softening
of the object boundary in the place of interest. In restore mode
the brush restores transparency to the initial value.
You can switch between original image and result one and preview
the extracted object against a colored matte background.
Just now Background Remover works on image layer in 8-bit RGB mode
only. Our product has simple install and uninstall procedures, help
and small tutorial. More information about our products you can
find on ImageSkill site (www.imageskill.com).
Web Site = http://www.imageskill.com/backgroundremover/backgroundremover.html
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