MisterClipping.com introduces hand-made clipping paths online

Press Release:
Making clipping paths is labour-intensive and tiresome. But also inevitable. Please take any campaign flyer, catalogue or web shop and consider the amount of time and effort it took to isolate all those images. Starting June 1, it will be possible to order hand-made Photoshop clipping paths online. On www.misterclipping.com you will be able to upload your images without a path; and download them again with a path within 1-48 hours.

MisterClipping.com is an online supplier of hand-made Photoshop clipping paths. The company was founded in November 2005 and is entirely dedicated to making clipping paths for third parties. The online application, which has been active since June 1, was developed by a renowned Internet company. In September, the campaign “Let Mister Clipping do the clipping” will be the starting shot for a worldwide roll-out of the service.

Clipping paths are used for various creative editing procedures. Hence, the graphic industry cannot escape from making clipping paths. It does, however, remain a tedious job.

Easy, fast and cheaper than doing it yourself
MisterClipping revolves around simplicity and user-friendliness. The application distinguishes itself by the fact that the entire process of image selection, uploading, clipping and checking up to the process of paying and downloading the clipped images is fully integrated in the system and computerized as much as possible.

In order to be able to use the application, one must first register for a (free) account. After this, the user himself determines the way in which he gets his images to and from Mister Clipping. By default, takes place by means of the Mister Clipping browser: the user selects the images that he wishes to have clipped and, by pressing ‘upload’, the images are copied to the Mister Clipping servers automatically. It is also possible to use FTP. If the user selects this option, Mister Clipping will automatically create a target folder, which can be accessed by entering a username and password. It is even possible to enter a location where the images can be found. Mister Clipping will collect the images on its own (FTP fetch). In all cases a thumbnail survey of the images ‘coming in’ is generated in realtime. The system offers the same options for downloading the isolated images.

Prices
The starting rate for the isolation of images is €3.95 (approx £2.70) apiece. The price per image depends on the complexity of the object to be isolated. A representation of a bicycle is obviously more difficult to process than that of a packet of butter. In order to calculate the total price of a job, the images are classed into four categories. Users will receive a final estimate before commissioning us to add a clipping path to an image. Payment options are by credit card and Paypal.