Press the yellow icon to swap out the chosen background image. Click the orange icon and you get options to Move, Scale (keeps aspect ratio so you cannot stretch the texture) or Rotate the background. Have Background choices of Transparency (the default setting), Solid Color or Image where you can select an image or texture from your computer. The best use for the Background section would probably be for adding a new sky in a landscape (see below) or as a background to a portrait. Two things have been improved: Topaz has included a new Background icon at bottom of column where you can open any image to add into the shot as a background, and it is now a stand-alone program that interfaces smoothly with Lightroom. One of my Corel Painter textures was added to the image a couple times for the final result. Below is how the Cut View of the mask appeared for cattle egret image. The Fog Filter in Topaz Lens Effects was used on the left side of the image to soften the body effect. The Oil Paint Filter in CS6 was applied to just the bird quickly, then I hand painted more on the bird. In this bird’s case, it took a little more clean up in Photoshop to get it exactly the way I liked it. Just wanted to emphasize that the same Topaz ReMask 5 was used to select him. This Cattle Egret took lots of steps so I will not go over all of them.
This is the basic trick to getting a really clean mask. Zoom in close and tap away with the different brushes. To switch between the brushes use keyboard shortcuts “q” for to add back image, “w” to remove areas, and “e” to recompute the area. The brushes in the plug-in are very sensitive so that you can really select the extra little spots needed just by tapping with the brushes – no real painting. I usually flip between the Mask view and the Keep View. ReMask 5 really selected the bird and feather edges very easily and without too much touch up in the resulting layer mask. The biggest problem with this image was to get the focal point well defined on the face since the colors are so vivid and compete with the face.
#Topaz remask 5 full how to
The basic workflow was the same one used in my How To Get a Painterly Effect for Wildlife and Birds blog. The final image used three different effects in Topaz Lens Effects: Fisheye to increase the head size a little (this work really good on bird images), Toy Camera Awesomeness I preset tweaking the sliders to get the rich color tones, and as a final step in this image using the Fog 1 preset which gives the final slightly faded feel around the bottom of the image to drive the eye upward. You need to go to Menu -> Preferences and check Enable Use-Layer-Mask to get a layer mask on image layer back in Photoshop. Below is a screenshot of the ReMask 5 interface.
#Topaz remask 5 full manual
Check out the Manual for how all the slider work. After computing the mask, I usually adjust the Recovery slider (revives color of foreground in weaker transparent areas) and the Layer Mask strength (determines the brightness of the mask) to get better results in my masks. Check out this short basic tutorial for version 4, that works the same with version 5, on how to create a mask fast – ReMask 4 Masking Hair. In fact, in most cases you do not have to fill in the areas. (See my And the Best Complicated Selection Tool Is?) It took practically no time to separate this image with a distracting green colored background and place it on my Corel Painter texture. Otherwise I found the program to be just like Version 4 and it still works very well. The major improvement for me is the Background section as shown at end of blog.
#Topaz remask 5 full upgrade
Remember, if you own this plug-in, it is a free upgrade for you. Topaz recently updated their selection plug-in to ReMask 5 and the results are really great. I call this guy “King of the Alligator Farm” as he was so noticeable and seems to enjoy everybody checking him out. The colors in these Scarlet Macaws are incredible and perfect for painting. Along the way, a couple other tips popped up! This image took me several hours to complete, but was worth it. Had not planned on writing on this topic this week, but since I own Topaz (see sidebar at my Tidbits Blog for website link) ReMask, thought I would put it through its paces.
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