Clipping path service: outsourcing photo editing

Quality levels

Pro

$3 per photo

Examples

Included Services:

brightness & contrast

object alignment

background replacement

Alexander Lozitsky CEO and co-Founder RetouchMe, Ukraine

• Clipping Path Service: A Simple and Effective Way to Remove Backgrounds
• Clipping path in Photoshop

Clipping Path Service: A Simple and Effective Way to Remove Backgrounds

Professional photography often requires additional retouch not only to conceal and correct imperfections but also to achieve the right lighting and color rendition. Sometimes, the goal of retouching in Photoshop can be to transform an image to meet the requirements of product shots, advertising photography, or any other commercial purpose.

One of the most common requests in commercial photography retouching is background replacement. Frequently, product and subject photography requires a white or transparent background to allow the product to be placed on e-commerce platforms and online stores. Presenting products in advertising photos doesn't always necessitate a white background, but it certainly requires a clean background without unnecessary details or clutter.

Sometimes, working with the background can serve various purposes. For example, you may want to isolate an object in the photo to edit it without affecting the background. Enhancing the prominence and visibility of the object in the photo, highlighting it, or making editings to the background for aesthetic reasons to alter the mood or context of the photo are all common goals. Removing unwanted details from a photo without altering its integrity (such as debris, lighting objects, or bystanders in the frame) is also important. Additionally, adding objects to the current photo, and creating collages and new compositions are all creative possibilities.

Even when shooting in a studio, on a chroma key, or a cyclorama, unwanted details may still be present in the photo. Indeed, for all these purposes, the universal tool of a clipping path service is used. With the help of the Clipping Path Service Provider RetouchMe PRO, specialists can transform your photo to meet your specific expectations.

Clipping path in Photoshop

Clipping path in Photoshop is indeed a professional tool used to create a mask around an object, allowing it to be separated from the surrounding background. Through the selected area, the top layer of the photograph is clipped, and it can be replaced with a layer below. Subsequently, various adjustments can be made either to the object itself or to the background in the photo to achieve the desired effect.

When choosing from a variety of photo clipping path services, it is worth paying attention to key aspects of working with them. Are you ready to invest a significant amount of your time in learning and working with graphic editors? Manual photo editing is the most reliable and high-quality approach, but undoubtedly the most labor-intensive one. The possibility of automatic fixing in some applications or with the help of artificial intelligence might tempt you. However, you should be prepared for the fact that the result of such retouching may not be of high quality. Why? Working with a photograph requires more than just mechanically cutting out details and replacing the background. Sometimes the mask may not be created perfectly, capturing unnecessary details, or, conversely, missing something. The background may not be cleaned thoroughly enough. All of this affects the final result of the photograph and detracts from its integrity and aesthetics.

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