Photoshop CS6 Matting

[rpcrowe]

Under the LAYERS drop down menus we find a choice named MATTING (which is the last choice on the drop down menu).

Selecting this choice gives us another drop down menu with the following choices:

Color Decontaminate
Defringe
Remove Black Matte
Remove White Matte

I am not sure what these commands do or when I should use them

[Dave Humphries]

I didn't know either Richard, so I googled and found these;

YouTube by Art of Retouching Studio
Removing fringe pixels from a selection (Photoshop)

However, the most concise explanation is the first item in this 2 1/2 min YouTube by BlueLightningTV, although it doesn't cover all of the options.

[rpcrowe]

Thanks Dave, I should have done the research...

[John 2]

A useful link Dave. Thanks.

[James G]

In addition to Dave's links, I found the following after a little 'surfing'

"Matting" is a menu item in the Layer menu, used to edit pixels on the fringe of an image or new layer. For example, when a section of one image is moved to another, anti-aliasing can create pixels that do not match their new background. Matting is designed to edit these pixels so they do match. There are three methods available for matting:
• Defringe replaces fringe pixels with the color of adjacent pixels
• Remove Black Matte will eliminate dark pixels
• Remove White Matte will eliminate light pixels

I've never come across it before...
Looks like it could be useful for removing halos, I also found the links below while surfing: -

http://www.sitepoint.com/get-rid-of-...-in-photoshop/

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/defri...hop-47337.html

It looks as if Defringe (in earlier versions of PS) is the same as Color Decontaminate

[dragon76]

In addition to Dave's links, I found the following after a little 'surfing'



I've never come across it before...
Looks like it could be useful for removing halos, I also found the links below while surfing: -

http://www.sitepoint.com/get-rid-of-...-in-photoshop/

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/defri...hop-47337.html

It looks as if Defringe (in earlier versions of PS) is the same as Color Decontaminate

Matting can remove hair halos but it does not work as good as Outer Glow. With OG you can work with any hair colour. It can be converted to a separate layer and then use opacity and mask.

Cheers

Dean

[rpcrowe]

Thank you all for your kind help!