How To Create Clipping Path Easy

1. What is Clipping Path

2. Where to utilize Clipping Path

3. Step by step instructions to do Clipping Path

What is Clipping Path?

A Path is a shut vector way or shape, used to remove a picture in current picture altering programming like Adobe Photoshop. Once the way is made, cutting way is then connected on it so that anything outside the way will be precluded when you put the document into Illustrator, InDesign or any web creating programming and inside the way will stay same as some time recently.

Where to utilize Clipping Path?

Cutting Path is important when we utilize any photograph/photo/picture to set up a configuration, for example, handout plan, magazine outline, web outline, pamphlet and some more. For instance, I have a photo with foundation shading dim and should be utilized as a part of the front page of my list. I should expel the foundation of that specific picture subsequent to my Catalog shading is green and have some other outline. To do as such, I should make way around the picture and after that change over it into section way. And after that, when I utilize it in Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver or some other system, the picture foundation will vanish, mean no foundation (straightforward). It will indicate just the picture which was inside the way. Take a gander at the pictures beneath to get a live

Before Clipping Path

After Clipping Path

How To Clipping Path ?

1. Open an image in Photoshop you want to use for your clipping path tutorial (go to the file menu in Photoshop and select open, from the open dialogue box choose the file you want to use and then click open.

   Photoshop Pen Tool


2. Once you have got the file open in Photoshop, select the “Pen Tool” from the tool box (if you can’t see the tool box, go to window menu and select “Tools”). Now, make sure that you have selected “Paths” from the pen tool menu bar which is located underneath of the main Menu bar.

3. Now click on the image edge and drag the mouse pointer towards the next step and release the mouse. After an appropriate distance, again click on the image edge and continue in the same manner until you have completed moving around the image and finally see this “o” symbol. This “O” symbol means you are going to close the path. Click on it (starting point) in order to close the path.

Before Clipping Path

After Clipping Path

4. Once the path is completed around the image and its closed properly, go to path pallete (window menu/ select “Paths”). Double click on the “work path” and press enter to save the path and the path name will be changed to “Path-1” instead of “work path”.


Photoshop Work Path

Path Palette Popup

5. Go to “pop up” menu from the Paths palette and select “Clipping Path…”. A dialogue box will appeare asking to choose your desired path and Flatness. Select the path you want to Clipped and Put the flatness you desire and click “OK”. You are now almost done. Flatness is the desired amount of pixel you want to make blur the image edge. The more amount you use in Flatness the more image edge will be blurish. In general, leave the Flatness box blank (0) and the image edge will be 100% sharp which is most of the time appropriate.


Path Palette Popup


Applying Clipping path

6. You can now save the file in PSD or TIFF format and ready to place into the program you are working with for your design. This time you will get the image without the background. Thats all about clipping path.