The background mask hides all unnecessary areas of the loaded photo. This helps you keeping only the areas you are interested in, such as the character's head or body.
Original actor image | Masked actor image |
There are two methods to generate a background mask for your image.
There are two modes in the Mask Editor which facilitates you to quickly add mask to the image:
Before zoom in | Zoom in for more easily modifying the details |
Drag a rectangle to surround the desired area | Zoom in for more easily modifying the details |
If you wish to perfect your image mask, then you may pre-save your image with a pre-defined alpha channel. This can be done by means of an external image editor. Once you create your mask outside, simply load the image into CrazyTalk. The alpha channel information will automatically be applied as the background mask in the Background Mask Editing panel.
Adding and editing alpha channels in an external image editor (e.g. Photoshop)