Color Masking in PhotoPaint

[sallybode]

I was doing some tutorials on color masking, didn't really know what it was. It is like masking on steroids. Very good for dropping out the background of pictures with a mulitple hue background.

Sometimes a picture may have some interest to it, but the remainder is either garbage or is poorly exposed and you lose the fun of it.

Substituting a background that more suits your purpose isn't all that hard. It becomes an artistic composition, adding lens flares and special effects typography. For a long time I did all my image editing in Photoshop but as I have tried to increase my efficiency, I decided to grit my teeth and learn PhotoPaint so that I could actually produce something that I could be proud of. It has many similar features to Photoshop but it has some different approaches but also some tools Photoshop doesn't have. There is a ton more lens flare effects and the selection tools, I actually like better.

The retouch brush is really fast and gets the jobs out quickly.

If you haven't learned color masking yet, give it a try.