Silhouette Clip Art Services

The new vogue of outsourcing has definitely smack the graphic design industry. Now this style is also touched the silhouette clip art services / graphics / images / image clipping path, which has become a cost saver for several businesses.

The potential of a silhouette image are endless! You can now directly put edited images on different backgrounds or use them for building product catalogs, editorial designs web sites etc.

Famous Prepress Services Provider In India

Prepress services / photography and post production services are image background removal / image clipping path /Silhouette clip art / graphics, photoshop / image / knockout / layer masking services, image touch up services / digital image restoration / retouching service, professional album design, Photoshop digital image manipulation etc adding special effects to your photographs—such as frames, grafting, trimming, padding, and just about anything you desire. All this applies to black and white and full color photographs.

SBL Graphics, an ISO 9001 quality certified IT services provider specialized in Image editing / Prepress Services, Graphics design, Video production and Manipulation, 2d 3d animation and Panorama Creation.

SBL Graphics offers quality Image / Photo editing services/ Prepress Services at affordable cost. SBL's Graphics Prepress services include:

* Image clipping path | Image background removal services
* Image / photoshop / layer / knockout masking services
* Digital image restoration / retouching service
* Custom wedding album designing
* Image coloring service
* Photoshop image manipulation and enhancement

Image Clipping Path / Outline and Photo / Knockout Masking Services

Adobe Photoshop is a highly flexible prepress services editing tool which offers a number of techniques in removing background from photos/images. Two very significant techniques in this realm are image clipping path / image cropping services and photoshop / transparency / knockout masking services. Though both image clipping path / background removal and image / alpha masking are used for photo / image editing purposes, they have specific features and differences associated with them. Some of the differences between clipping path / outline services and photo / layer masking services are listed below.


Image Clipping path / Cropping / Outline

1.In clipping path / image cropping, the images are saved including their path. Easy to select the path.

2.E-commerce applications are more.

3.Illustrator or In-design wont support clipping path / image outline.

4.Image output size is less.

5.More commonly used.

6.Less natural appearance compared to masking when defining hairstyles.

7.Supports all formats.

8.Clipped image can be saved as a masked image using layer masking or Alpha channel masking.

9.As clipping path / image outline is saved, any modification or further use is possible.

10.Pen tool is used. The output obtained will have hard edges.

11.Clipping path / image cropping is faster.


Photo / Image / Transparency Masking


1.The images are saved without a path associated with them.

2.Less e-commerce applications.

3.Alpha channel masking supports other software or commercial applications.

4.Image output size is more.

5.Not used much, compared to image clipping path / image outline.

6.Even intricate hair structures can be masked with natural effects.

7.Supports only .tiff and .psd.

8.Not possible to be saved as a clipped image.

9.Not as flexible as clipping path / image cropping.

10.Mask tool or techniques such as Layer mask can be used. Output will have smooth edges.

11.Not as fast as clipping path / image cropping , but fixes complex hair styles faster.

Image Clipping Path

Image clipping path is a vector line description embedded into your image file that tells software where to "clip" the photograph. Image clipping path / Image background removal services are classified into eight types according to the complexity of the images. They are the following:


• Basic image background removal / Image clipping path service
• Simple image background removal / Image clipping path service
• Compound image background removal / Image clipping path service
• Super Complex image background removal / Image clipping path service
• Multi image background removal / Image clipping path service
• image background removal / Image clipping path service with Shadow
• Extra image background removal / Image clipping path service
• Complex image background removal / Image clipping path service

Just a look to an Image clipping path / Image background removal sample: