I am finding this too hard, I googled and found some companies that do this sort of thing, has anyone tried them? Is clipping path the same as deepetching. http://www.deepetch.com seems to be one good one, I also saw http://www.rapidclipping.com/Photoshop_clipping/home.htm and http://www.ezyclipping.com. Has anyone had any experience with this sort of thing. My catalog has over 300 images of jewelery and jackets with fur fitted on manequins due in two weeks, all shot on a blue studio background. Do I require alpha channel masking? Can anyone help please?

I have no experience with any of those, I'd do it myself. If the images have the same background, maybe the Background eraser (See Russell Brown) can do a good job in this case. You might create an action in Photoshop based on that and then use the Batch automation to apply the action to all images.

Have you taken a look in the links I gave you in your other post of the same subject?
http://forums.htmlhelp.com/index.php?showt...amp;#entry31223

All depends of course also on how comfortable you are in Photoshop.

Or indeed whether you assume Photoshop (whose proprietors arranged the kidnap of Dmitri Sklyarov, so I don't do business with them) is the only image processing software there is.

Photoshop is what the OP talked about himself in his other thread I linked to above.

I'd use a mask. But then I don't use PhotoShop. Come to think of it, I'm not that prolific with images either.