Remove background or mask parts of your images. Create icons or images with irregular shapes. Pick several colors or an entire area in an image to get all the colors within it. Specify areas in your photo as non-transparent to preserve them or specify the rest of the area as transparent.
ChromaKeys is a program which is used to quickly remove or mask portions of an image.
Chroma keys may be used for a variety of purposes including:
- Background removal for photographs
- General purpose image masking
- Icon generation
- Cutting out portions of an image
- Creating irregular shaped images People often spend hours trying to remove a background from a photo, meticulously creating intricate shapes only to end with dissapointing results.
Using ChromaKeys, instead of just selecting a single color to act as the chroma key, we can choose several colors (each with a tolerance). In fact, we can just select a region of the image, and obtain all the colors within that region to act as chroma keys.
We can also mark areas of the image as opaque, to ensure that the main image will remain intact in those areas. Conversely, we may also mark other areas as transparent.
Chroma keys makes image masking easy.
v1.0 [May 5, 2010]
- New ways to import an image
- Dragging and dropping the image into the ChromaKeys window
- Dragging and dropping an image file into the ChromaKeys window
- Copying the image and pasting it into the ChromaKeys window
- New toolbar button allows you to export the masked image to the clipboard
- Export file type now automatically adds TIFF extension (previously, users had to add TIFF extension manually to the filename) Notes: Importing Images Which Have Already Been Masked or Contain Transparent Areas
- These original transparent areas may not be made opaque in ChromaKeys (as there is no original information).
- When viewing the original image or original image + mask, these transparent areas will be marked as black
- When viewing the masked image, these transparent areas will be marked with the background color (default is bright green)
