Images are the only thing that shows that any incident, any invention, any discovery has happened for real. The first image ever taken by a camera was the camera itself after placing two large sized mirrors at certain angles. Whether it is a portrait, a landscape, wildlife, sport a documentary underwater photography, architecture or advertising, every object in this world is photogenic. Every creation of god is worth taking a picture and be viewed by many people in the world, yet some of us are not able to find out why our pictures do not look appropriate as much we look for real.

The images which do not hit the bull's eye or the photographer might be a novice to capture the unwanted objects in the frame. It becomes imperative to change that image and make sure they just give a finish for what they were taken the picture for. Sometimes a simple background remove or change can work wonders to a picture. In the early years of analogue photography, it was too difficult to change the background yet the people tried to improvise photos by use of paints, cutting, etc. In the era of digital photography it is much economical and less cumbersome. The clipping path tool or vector masking in various software have made it possible to rearrange the photographs and transform them completely.

In most of the pictures taken by the common people like us the location and lightening do not match the theme or the concept of the photography. It is only a few times that everything around us becomes picture perfect. The notion of image masking and manipulation just arises out of curiosity of man to visualize a place and time for anything that is happening around you. There are many experts that can actually work out your imagination and edit the images to suit the mood, concept and theme of the photography. Most of the images used for public display require a lot of alterations to give the best results.

There are many things that could be done to an image such as creating a virtual outline and isolating the object from rest of the reference points or objects in a frame. A blur or a defocused lens photograph could also be filled with colors, softened, or detached for unwanted items. The idea of clipping path is very different from a simple copy and paste, it also involves layering, removal and insertion of objects, color correction etc. Since every image is a specimen and requires a lot of imagination and patience to edit any image. So next time you take a photograph and tend to forget anything, then just don’t worry, you could just do the image enhancement and change it drastically and put the same to impress others.