Lightning-Fast Masking and Extraction

Hover over the left menu to view different parts of the Topaz ReMask workflow.

Topaz ReMask is specifically engineered to supercharge the masking and extraction workflow for photographers and designers within Photoshop. Other masking tools - both within Photoshop and other third party filters - require intricate brushing, sampling, and refining for a detailed mask. Topaz ReMask, on the other hand, does all the heavy lifting while requiring a minimum of user input.

Please see the Topaz ReMask video tutorials for more information about how it works!

Topaz ReMask can also take advantage of the built-in Photoshop layer mask feature. If it detects that the layer in Photoshop contains a layer mask, ReMask will automatically save the mask directly to the layer mask instead of removing any pixels. You can even re-import the layer mask back into ReMask, which will detect and re-use the layer mask's contents. This full layer mask compatibility very effectively streamlines the Photoshop workflow.

This composition took less than 2 minutes to create from start to finish.

Easily Extract Intricate Image Elements

Topaz ReMask's newer-generation extraction technology retains higher levels of masking detail.

Images with intricate details are traditionally hard to create effective masks for. Topaz ReMask quickly and painlessly extracts these details in the subject without requiring much user input.

It does this by using the areas specified by the user in the tri-map to keep and extrapolates that information to the blue areas. It uses a variety of kinds of image information including color, intensity, and pattern-based processing. It also finishes processing in mere seconds for most images.

The tri-map is the only thing the user needs to create. Topaz ReMask takes care of the rest.

Recent Technology = High Speed + Great Quality

Topaz ReMask only exists because of very recent developments in image extraction techniques.

Like many Topaz products, Topaz ReMask's capabilities are only made possible through the very latest developments in image enhancement technology. A masking tool like Topaz ReMask would be literally impossible back in 2007, for instance.

ReMask works by analyzing the information in the user-created tri-map and comparing it to the original image to accurately determine what to keep and what to remove in the image. The tri-map serves three purposes to Topaz ReMask:

1. Green tells Topaz ReMask what to keep in the image for sure. ReMask then compares these areas with the original image and can accurately determine the nature of the "desired" areas based on many image characteristics.
2. Red tells Topaz ReMask what to remove in the image for sure. ReMask then determines the nature of the "undesired" areas using this information.
3. Blue tells Topaz ReMask which parts of the image to process. ReMask extrapolates the data from the green and red parts of the image to figure out the blue parts with a high degree of accuracy.

The resulting mask can then be easily adjusted or refined using native Photoshop tools or inside ReMask itself.

Note the pristine preservation of the edges of the fur.