: Technical name for the removal of an image background Can someone remind me what the technical name is for the removal of a background from a still image? Our photographer told me years ago,

@Kristi927

Another term could be "Isolated Image"

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@Odierno310

The phrase I was looking for is 'deep-etching'.

Thanks for all the answers, guys.

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@Cofer715

While I think Alan probably has it, silhouetting is an old school printer's term, opaquing (using a red clay-like paint to mask off portions of B&W film negatives), and vignetting all might fit the bill.

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@Ogunnowo857

You could say "Cut out" or "Image cut out"

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@BetL875

Depending on the context and who you're talking to, this is referred to as "keying" (also referred to as Chroma Key), "matting" (mostly video), "masking" (you'll come across "clipping mask" as a term which is interchangeable with "mask" in most cases) or extraction. These are all names for the same general technique, which is the basis of Compositing.

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@Jessie844

You might mean "background extraction".

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