deleting an area of photo

John Rinehart

• December 14, 2022 15:31

I used super AI to select a portion of the image.   How do I delete this area so I am left with a transparent background and only the desired portion of the image

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  Rick Sammartino Community moderator

  • December 14, 2022 16:10
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  The purpose of Super select is to apply a Filter to the selected area, it doesn't have an option to apply the selection to a Layer.

  If it's the super select area that you want applied to the Layer, then you'll have to copy it from a Filter. Normally you wouldn't use super select for that, you would use Mask AI instead since you can do that directly in the Layer mask area.

  This won't work...

  

   

  Instead use Mask AI...

  

   

  To end up with this...

  

   

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  Brian Lawson Community moderator

  • December 14, 2022 21:23

  You can use SSAI to create masks for Layers but it has to be done in that Layer's Masking options.

  

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  Rick Sammartino Community moderator

  • December 14, 2022 21:47
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  That option in not considered Super Select, according to the user guide it's Mask AI. I was trying to explain the difference between the two. While they are functionally equivalent, they are used differently.

  With Super Select, you select the mask first, then assign a function to it. Whereas with Mask AI you select the function first, then assign the mask to it.

  

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  Brian Lawson Community moderator

  • December 14, 2022 21:45

  They use the same AI and achieve the same results. The rest is semantics. 😁

  Thanks for the clarification.

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  David Tillett

  • December 14, 2022 23:32

  

  The new Quick Mask AI gives the same functionality as SuperSelect but masks get created for currently selected Adjustment/Filter/Layer mask. The main reason why one would want to create mask this way rather than Mask AI as Rick showed is that for certain elements in an image, e.g. people, animals you can select one or more of these but not necessarily all. Mask AI is all or nothing selection.

  Also at times SuperSelect/Quick Mask may correctly identify the subject that you want to mask but Mask AI doesn't offer an option to mask that. I have an image of a monkey where SuperSelect offers to mask it and Keyword AI says there is a primate in the image, but Mask AI doesn't offer Animal as a masking option. Submitted to On1 for investigation.

  I think that things might have been less confusing, and led to fewer initial complaints, if SuperSelect AI had options for applying masks to current adjustment/filter/layer removing the need for the new Quick Mask AI and allowing the old one to have remained unchanged from start.

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  Sam Migliori

  • December 29, 2022 01:01
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  Is it possible to save the moth with the transparent background to use in a composite?  Mask AI works like a charm but when I add the "cutout" pic to my composite it contains a white background which I then need to remove.  What am I doing wrong?

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  Brian Lawson Community moderator

  • December 29, 2022 01:08
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  Export it as a PNG. PNG files support transparency. You can then import that to get just the moth.

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  Sam Migliori

  • December 29, 2022 01:16

  Excellent! 

  Thank you Brian. 

  Happy New year!

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