


Just pop in the disc, and Ulead does the rest. Overall, Ulead's jack-of-all-trades is top-notch. And although it is not intended to compete with full-featured drawing programs such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, PhotoImpact also includes enough vector-drawing tools to qualify as an all-in-one graphics program. PhotoImpact 8.0 offers more useful new tools for digital photography and Web graphics than either of its chief competitors, Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop Elements. Sign up for my newsletter and stay up to date with all the tutvid.Ulead PhotoImpact has long been known as a fun, powerful, value-packed image-editing program, and the latest version maintains that reputation. Watch the Video Above for Much More!īe sure to watch the video at the top of this article tutorial for even more detail and info on how I used this technique and really finished this effect and got great results! Select a layer where you’ve got one of those graphics with a little matte edge and go Layer>Matting>Remove Black Matte (or Remove White Matte if you’re cutting something off of a white background.) 4. a social media logo or similar graphic.) When you cut the graphics off of the background there is always a little bit of that background color matte left over on the edges and it can greatly reduce the look of those graphics. This feature I think is particularly useful for web and graphic designers who make have to take graphics and bits of artwork from Google images and can only find a graphics over a solid white or black background (i.e. NOTE: This feature will only be available for layers that have a mask which is what is cutting away the background around your photo subject.

Go Layer>Matting>Color Decontaminate and use the slider to find the sweet spot for the edge of your selected object. We’re going to use Color Decontaminate to either kill off, or blend back in the color fringe(matte) that is on that masked object/model. Check out my image above and see just how complex that masked edge around her hair is. If you have an object that has been cut out with a mask, you can use the Color Decontamination feature. Hit OK and let Photoshop do its thing! 2. Simply select the layer with the fringe on it and go Layer>Matting>Defringe and typically I defringe between 1-3 pixels depending on how much fringe it there. we’ve deleted those pixels around our object) we can use the Defringe command in Photoshop to help clean up little residual bits of color that have been left behind by the other image. When we have cut out an object from one image and we haven’t used a mask (i.e.
