The Best Tutorial to Do Clipping Path

Want to get rid of the background of an image? Want a new good-looking background apart from the original one? Or just want mere whitening your aspired image? Clipping path is the smartest tool of this type of image manipulation artwork.

Clipping path or Silhouette/silo is the process of cutting out the original background of an image and inserting it infallibly into a new image or background. All the contents inside the path will be present after the clipping path is applied and others outside the path will be absent from the output. Pen tool is the best way to perform photoshop clipping path. It’s a manual task and quick and easy way to achieve a good cui out.

In this tutorial I will discuss the simplest but artistic ways to do a clipping path. Come and enjoy it!

Step 1

Open up an image in Photoshop that you want to do clipping path.

Take the pen tool from the tool box or simply press ‘p’.

Step 2

With pen tool start drawing the path area on your image you want to apply clipping path.

Step 3

After drawing the path on the border of your image it’s time to select to cut it out in anew background. Click the Paths tab on the Layers palette. A grayscale path will pop up name work path. Just click on it with mouse and pressing Ctrl key simultaneously. The image path will be selected.

Step 4

You can clip the image and remove the background in two ways now. Go in the select option at the top middle and then hit inverse. Now delete the background by pressing the ctrl key + select the path layer and press delete.

Or, you can simply copy the selection area of the image and create a new document and then click paste. It will give you a brand new background of your image.

Step 5

Fill the background color or anything you like as your background in the white background.

Great! You finished playing around clipping path.

Learn Where to Apply this Tutorial:

• Products and service can be best highlighted and presented through the clipping path where needs correction or altering the color.
• The charisma of clipping path is touching  very single visual promotional or communicative media in  magazines, books, catalogs, brochures, calendars, poster product-packages, advertisements,  e-commerce site,  online shops and many other where, not!

Quick Tip: How to Create a Geometric Background Effect in Photoshop

Like Illustrator, Photoshop also includes some very powerful vector editing tools. In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a geometric background effect for a poster design in Photoshop using a few simple shapes, blending modes, and transparencies. Let’s get started!

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1. Create a Color Scheme

My favorite way to create a color scheme for this effect is to start off in Illustrator. Illustrator’s Blend Tool is a great way to create mathematically correct, gradual color schemes that smoothly transition into each other. If you don’t have Illustrator, try drawing a gradient in Photoshop, using the color codes below. Then, use your color picker at regular intervals to produce a similar color scheme.

Step 1

The first step is to create a new document in Illustrator. The document that I created was 45.72 cm x 60.96 cm.

Step 2

Draw a rectangular shape and apply a color. I used #553895.

Step 3

Now duplicate that square shape by holding down Alt and dragging it across the canvas.

Change its color to something lighter. I used #CFC4E0. Keep in mind that we will be adding quite a few steps between these colors, so choose one that is fairly distant from your original color.

Step 4

Now go to Object > Blend > Blend Options. Select Specified Steps. Use as many steps as you need but remember, you may need to set quite a few steps to produce enough colors to fill your Photoshop canvas in later steps. This could require some trial and error on your part. For this tutorial, I used 28 steps.

Select both Objects and go to Object > Blend > Make. You should now see something like the image below. Keep in mind that this is only to help create your color scheme. So your blended object doesn’t have to look the same as the one below.

Quick Tip: How to Draw Realistic Eyes in Photoshop

The eyes are one of the most important elements in any character or portrait illustration. In this tutorial, we will show you how to quickly draw realistic eyes in Photoshop using digital painting techniques. Let’s get started!

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Step 1

Start with a 50% grey background and a sketch that will define the general shape of your eye. First, draw a shape of eyeball (it doesn’t really need to be perfect circle), and the iris looking in your chosen direction. Then draw the edges of the eyelids, according to the green lines. When you’re done, sketch whole eyelids – they should cover the eyeball.

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Step 2

Now you need to define the light source. Let’s say it’s on the right. Choose a hard brush with 17% Flow and Airbrushing mode on, then paint some lights with white and shadows with black

Tip: click "D" to set your colors to default black & white, then click "X" to switch between them). Don’t forget to stress the edges of eyelids with thick lines – without those they would seem flat.

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Step 3

Draw the rim of the iris with black – start with thick circle and then sketch some lines heading to the pupil. Don’t make them too long though, you’ll need this space later. When it’s done, choose some lighter shade and draw a rim close to the pupil, but not touching it (it should make the middle ring). Sketch it like a circle with ragged edges.

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Step 4

Before you fill the iris with lines heading to the pupil, you need to learn something about structure of the iris. It looks like a crater – it’s convex from the rim to the middle, then there’s a funnel with pupil at the bottom. Use this image to place your lights and shades correctly.

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Step 5

Now you can smoothen your painting, but don’t use Smudge Tool for this – it’s too hard to control. Choose a soft brush (or lower the hardness of your current one to 0%), then pick a shade between the colors you’ve painted, and paint this area with the picked shade. It may sound complicated, but just try it – it gives much better effect than Smudge tool. Use this brush to lighten the rest of the eyeball (click in the middle of grey area just once, so that white doesn’t touch the edges). Another nice trick: when stressing the bending of the upper eyelid with black, paint some soft shade going up in the bright part, and down in the dark part.

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Step 6

Now put some shadow under the upper eyelid, covering part if the eyeball. Use a soft brush to blend the rim of the iris and the pupil too. They’re built into the eyeball, in the end.

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Step 7

Select a hard brush and change its mode to Linear Light, then choose white. Use it to add some shininess to your eye, just be careful – you can easily overdo it. Paint some spots wherever the eye should look wet, and – it’s another trick – draw a shadow of the eyelashes with it. Yes, white shadow. The effect will be astounding, just remember about proper waving.

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Step 8

It’s time for eyelashes. Important thing is they don’t start on the part of the eyelid that touches the eyeball (that’s a common mistake). Remember the edges you’ve drawn in step 2? This is where the eyelashes grow from – from this brink of the edge that doesn’t touch the eyeball. Another thing you need to remember of is eyelashes are bent. To stress it easily, just draw some short lines going down, then add the bent part (draw the eyelashes in tufts, not individually – it’s more natural).

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Step 9

The lower row of the eyelashes should be less dense and not so visible. They’re shorter too. Besides, notice that when light comes into the eye, it reflects on the eyelashes – use your brush with Linear Light to add some shiny lines there.

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Step 10

You can stop now, but I’d like to show you some trick with coloring. Create a new layer and change it’s mode to Color. Now you can use soft brush to put colors, and the eye will still be visible (in the picture below the first row shows the colors I used, the other – the final effect).

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Final Image