OMNiON’ highly experienced imaging artists understand the importance of showing your photos in the best possible way to the consumer – it could make the difference between success and failure of the presentation. As part of our imaging services, we provide clipping paths – which is a hard-edged vector masking technique that encircles some desired areas and hides unwanted image elements – when appropriate or directed by the customer.

Clipping Path is a form of masking or stencilling where you can draw an outline around your image where you want it to be visible, the remaining areas become transparent. The only drawback to this is that the ‘stencil’ or ‘mask’ has hard edges, you cannot have a ‘fading’ or gradual mask as you can with a Photoshop layer. It behaves in the same way as if you had physically cut up a photograph and removed a foreground image from its background. As with scissors, images masked with clipping paths have hard edges, there’s no feathering available. 

Each masking job is unique and requires a different method of creation and refinement. Clipping Paths are a lot like Vector Masks except that they apply to an entire document rather than a layer or layer group. Clipping paths are used to isolate uniquely shaped objects. Clipping paths are typically used to hide the background of an image or may be used to transform an image into any shapes, making the masked portions transparent or to any color background. Clipping paths can be created in graphics programs then exported with an image as an embedded path or alpha channel or they can be drawn directly in some page layout applications.

All our clipping paths are hand-made by highly-trained imaging experts in Adobe Photoshop.