Masking out hair
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- bruised_blood
Anyone know any good plugins for Photoshop for helping with cutting out hair for a transparent background?
I'm working on a project with lots of pictures of women's hair blowing in the wind. The thought of cutting it all out is giving me nightmares.
Or any good tips otherwise? Many thanks!
- 23kon0
Or any good tips otherwise? Many thanks!
bruised_blood
(Jun 29 07, 02:21)
-----you shouldve shaved their heads :P
oof no luck mate, i don tknow if there are any filters for photoshop that do this. its just gonna be trial and error with you, the eraser tool and hours and hours. have fun.
- Dancer0
One word: Channels.
Google it there are loads out tuts out there.Say hi To Nev for me
- bruised_blood0
yeah, channels seem to be the way forward... gonna figure through that one.
Nev says hi, when we figured out who you were... ;-)
- Dancer0
The name kinda gives it away ;)
When doing the hair, take your time, people who rush make it look shite. Good luck
- Pinionist0
What's the background of these photos? Cuz' if it's fairly filled with one color (no patterns and such), it might be possible to select it with Color Range. Might be just that you would have to do it several times for differrent parts of the background, and then have it merged from several layers.
Let me know if this helps!
- bruised_blood0
yeah, everything helps, thank you!
The problem i've got is that the background is near white, but the hair i'm dealing with has been really blown out into lots of tiny strands, and the hair is unfortunately light blonde, so i'm having a lot of problems getting things like extract, channels colour range to recognise the them.
But thanks for the help everyone, I can see this is going to be a painful one...
- neue75_bold0
I tend to crop [make a clipping path around the whole figure] as close as I can, cut it out [separate from the background so the model is on her own layer] and set the layer to 'multiply' then duplicate that layer and put it below [the cut-out] then fill it with white and then go in close and clean up the lose strands [fly-aways as we say] on the layer of white and then you end up with the models hair sitting more naturally on the coloured background...
it takes a bit longer but it produces more natural results, if you follow this method of madness...
- wckd0
Vertus Fluid Mask (y)
OnOne Mask Pro
- Raniator0
Enough of the plug-ins... what about these birds?! Where are these pics then, eh?
- bruised_blood0
NDA protected ;-)
- jaylarson0
easy,
OnOne Mask Pro
http://www.ononesoftware.com/det…srsly, this plugin is friggin awesome!
- barbtastic0
Extract, under Filters, is free...