I started with a relatively simple image (above) of my son. The original image features a simple background ![]() ![]() Instead, I’m only going to focus on the results. I recently came across Decompose from metakine software, who’s tagline for the app is “Extract objects from images with ease.” Indeed, they promise “easy and flawless extraction of elements from pictures in order to use them to make composite images.” Those are some bold statements, so I decided to give it a shot to see if things have improved in the years since I’ve used other masking applications such as OnOne’s Perfect Mask (which crashed every time I tried to use it for the purpose of comparison in this article, so I’ve left it out).įor the purpose of this article, I’m not going to go into the controls and features of Decompose. However, it has been my experience with most of these methods that they simply don’t work, or are more difficult than masking the objects manually in Photoshop. There have been numerous Photoshop plugins and stand-alone applications over the years that claim to do the job quickly and easily with stunning results. The trick is masking things like hair, glasses, and other subtle areas that can make or break the final result. ![]() The situation is common you want to remove the background from an image and the subject/foreground object is a person.
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