Removing background is never easy whether you use Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Graphic Converter or whatever. Whatever you have and no matter how you do it, you will lose some important pixels in the course of removing background colors.

We have produced the following 3 videos to see the effectiveness of Mask Pro 4. It’s an Adobe Photoshop plug-in from onOne Software. As the name suggests, Mask Pro’s main function is masking. Masking is a technique to remove unnecessary pixels, keeping a group of objects intact. Hopefully, we can release a review on this Photoshop plug-in in a few days.

In the first video, we use Adobe Photoshop CS3’s Color Range and QuickMask to remove background colors in the sky. In the second video, we use onOne Software’s Mask Pro 4 to do the same job. The brush mode is used to remove background colors. And we only adjust the brush size. Finally, we adjust the brush size and also transition in the third video to compare masking results. Continue reading →