cutting out womans hair?
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- attentionspan
Sitting here with a few images that needs to be cut out, basicly womans hair against grey background, anyone got a tutorial / technique on how to patch the hair up so it doesnt look "cut out"
- rascuache0
Channels method.
- forcetwelve0
i usually take a wide bearth around the very detailed areas, then go back in zoomed in close and use the magic wand to delete the areas. then give it a run over with the blur tool.
- Jordy0
mask the thing, don't cut it .. so you can always go back. Then do a rough cut around the hair to get most of it out there ..
Take a soft brush and put opacity on something between 15-20% and flow on about 10-15%(if you use a wacom, which I strongly recommend for this kind of work). Now mask the hair and wipe outwards and inwards with the brush .. so the end of the hair become a bit transparent .. If there's complicated parts where this doesn't cut it use the blur / sharpen / smudge tool to correct some areas .. Some hairs can be stretched out with smudge .. Then go back after that and sharpen it with a brush .. It's hard to explain but for me this usually works really well ..
The whole thing can be done in about 15mins.
- attentionspan0
alright thanks guys, there was no communication with the photographer so he did his own underlit thing
smudge blur just might cut it
- jaylarson0
Mask Pro if you got the cash:
- Orbit0
Don't feel you need to faithfully mask every hair. You only need to create a mask that looks similar, and then paint the hair colour into the fine strands afterwards. I place the image into Illustrator, draw lots of fine hairs over where her hair is, then copy and paste that into photoshop, make a selection from it and use that to create a mask. Then, where the mask doesn't quite fit the hair exactly I blow a sample of the hair colour with my brush set to darken.
Ends up looking like perfectly masked out hair but is in fact re-drawn.
- keithrondinelli0
I personally vouch for the channels method. It takes some trial and error, but once you master it, it produces flawless results.
- +1,000,000
Can't believe how time consuming some of the methods people are posting are :(rascuache
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- svenreed0
channels are the way to go..maybe you can teach our re-touching studio how its done?
- Orbit0
The channels method works well if you have a good quality image on a noiseless background and the differentiation is already relatively crisp, but when you are working with a less than great image, where the background has noise and where the resolution has created indistinct transitions, I can tell you for free that just dodging on the best possible channel will look like shit.
I do a fair amount of work trying to rebuild head shots from offline video footage and you wont get away with the channel method on that for example.
It takes about ten minutes maximum to draw the hair as a super crisp mask in illustrator, and you then separate it into three different layers (about the 3 seconds work). This means you can individually blur different bits to create depth of field, rather than just bodging about with the blur tool across all of your mask and creating blur gussets between strands.
- Gucci0
Just searching the filter for others' methods for cutting out bastard fucking hairs...
Orbit, I like the cut of your jib.
- M_C_P0
if you really wanna get tricky with the channels bit, try playing with calculations.
>image>calculations
it'll take the exisiting rgb channels and extrapolate new & different ones based on the different math operations of two combined channels. if that makes any sense.
- monNom0
there's no single way. extract tool can work, channels (or channel mixer) then dodge/burn mask may work, blend-if ....magic wand may even give acceptable results.
if the bg is solid grey, try 'select colour range' then dodge/burn the mask
- jonturi0
↑ re: link above. noble... go to photoshop fashion retouching section.
good tutorial with live examples
- fooler20
Man arrested after cutting women's hair on buses
PORTLAND, OR (KGO) -- Taking public transit has its advantages and disadvantages. You save money, but sometimes you have to put up with noisy or smelly passengers.Well, things are a bit worse in Portland, Oregon - where the problem is with a man being called the "bus barber."
He gets on the bus, takes a seat behind female passengers, and then cuts out a chunk of their hair.
It has happened at least four times in the past few weeks. Police now think they've caught the guy -- a 22-year old who was arrested once in Seattle for gluing a woman's hair.