Masking with Corel Photo-Paint

Corel Photo-Paint is a high-quality image enhancer and image manipulation
program. It is a companion application of CorelDraw X3 graphics suite, designed
specifically for image editing. It includes new Image Adjustment Lab that
enables you to evaluate different color tonal correction settings for enhancing
your photos.

In Photo-Paint there are four mask modes available for selection. 'Normal' mode
selects an area in an image, 'Additive' expands the editable regions by

selecting multiple areas, 'Subtractive' removes areas from a selection, and
'XOR' selects multiple areas.

Here we used Magic wand mask tool as the background color is uniform. When you
click anywhere on the image the tool takes the value of the first pixel and
expands the selected area to include all surrounding pixels of similar value.

Open a new file and choose a desired background. Paste the image you want to mask and select Magic Wand Tool. Set tolerance value as 5 and select anti-alias and Additive mode	Click on background and a red overlay appears on the object and some parts of the background. For deselecting unnecessary overlay on the background just click on the areas
For removing the unmasked area go to Edit >Cut and now you can see the selected background. With this we get the complete picture	For fine tuning, like removing the blur as highlighted, go to Object >Defringe and set value of Defringe in the range of 1--5. Your mask is now ready for use