Thursday, January 21, 2016

Blending Edges in photoshop to a different color of an extracted object with different background color


What are some awesome ways to blend anti aliased edges of an object that has been extracted, lets say from dark background, or any light/dark unique color. And needs to be placed on different most likely on opposite color. Like object taken from black on white.


-Removing all pixels doesnt help. It makes it look extra crispy.


-Feathering is visible.


I wish i could find a way where values of edges is extracted and then blended with the new background. Or Basically i am asking how to make edges anti-aliased pixels transparent when extracting an object in photoshop.



Answer



You can't make a transparent image adapt to all backgrounds backgrounds, at least not in the way you mention. No matter what color you have behind it, the transparent image itself will always be the same.


You might have noticed that some gif files look better on light OR dark backgrounds, they have like an added border. This border is added to the image when it's saved, and it's not dynamic (it's called Matte, and you can see it if you "Save for Web" as gif in Photoshop - an icon with dark matte will look better in dark backgrounds, but terrible in light ones).


The best way to remove the background of an image, and have a smooth effect so there are no traces of any other colors in your transparent element is probably to use Masks. Masks are easy to re-adjust, and the borders are not as 'edgy'. Unfortunately, not all colors looks the same in light/dark backgrounds. Sometimes the colors will just look terrible together, like red on top of blue...


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