Removing backgrounds from digital images and placing people and things into new environments, is the bread and butter of Photoshop experts. But it's not always easy. In Photoshop alone, there are half a dozen ways to extract objects from busy backgrounds - all requiring a level of technical expertise beyond casual users. And Photoshop itself is expensive. Enter Decompose, a budget application that tries to simplify the process of selecting objects in photographs. It works, in fact, very much like the Extract feature found in versions of Photoshop from 5.5 onwards. That tool has since been superseded by the Refine Edge and Refine Mask dialogs, features that improve manual selections.
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