No, I mean a third color that would cover the transition area between foreground and background, where there is semi-transparent area.Martin Huber hat geschrieben:You mean a third color (aside from the yellow for the foreground and the red for the background) for the currently transparent areas? The transparent areas (instead of a color) have the advantage, that they don't hide the fine details in the picture.OldRadioGuy hat geschrieben:2. Should the Border Matting operation have a separate color?
Maybe not in the general case where an image is high quality with no or little compression, but in cases where there has been stronger compression. The exclusion of strong JPEG compression images means the tool cannot be used on a lot of pics that might be used in reduced size mode on the web or in desktop layout.Martin Huber hat geschrieben:A simple smoothing isn't useful in the general case. I can't say, why there are those jaggies your image without seeing the original, but all the masking and matting algorithms are affected by strong JPEG compression.OldRadioGuy hat geschrieben:4. Should the Quick Selection tool have an adjustable "Smooth" function to lessen the sharp turns in the selection line? I'm attaching a screen cap of an enlarged section of the top of a shaved head in an image. The edge width was set for 5, providing for a smoother transition to the layer to be placed behind the selection, but note the rough and jagged sections caused by color variations. Application of the Border Matting did not seem to improve the edge. Perhaps, a way to smooth the selection a big might make this look better.
This example I submitted was a section from a JPEG with significant compression. There are other bitmap picture editing applications that have "smooth" as one of the adjustment options for their selection tools, and it is of value in situations like this
Thanks.
Bob