[f22a6]

Hi, everyone. Does anyone know how to delete or any tutorial for editing those grey area without touching the hair in photoshop. Here is link -- > http://endlesscreative.com/how.jpg.
Please help, many thanks

Gary

[Westbo]

Originally Posted by f22a6

Hi, everyone. Does anyone know how to delete or any tutorial for editing those grey area without touching the hair in photoshop. Here is link -- > http://endlesscreative.com/how.jpg.
Please help, many thanks

Gary

Hi Gary,

Here's what I did:

1. Create a duplicate layer (layer1)
2. Select hair area on layer 1, invert selection and delete.
3. Turn off original layer.
4. Select layer 1. Go to Select>Color Range
5. Select gray tone behind hair, adjust "fuzziness" as needed.
6. Go to Select>Feather and enter 1 or 2 pixels. Delete.
7. Go to Select>Color Range and select background color. Delete
8. Turn on original and create a new background layer (layer2) and reposition above layer 1.
9. Turn off original background layer.
10. Create new layer 3, fill with white.
11. Arrange layers in order: layer 2, layer 1, layer 3.
12. Select erase tool, choose brush size and softness and remove hair area on layer 2,
which will reveal layer 1.
13. Flatten or merge as needed.

Note: You will need to finess via trial and error as you go.

Hope this helps.

W2

[macanon]

Gary
I don't know if you have budget to buy a plugin. The one I've been using called Fluid Mask is letting me do this easily.

Westbo has some good advice there though. You probably have the greatest tweak-ability with going manual.

[f22a6]

Thanks all, the tutorial is helpful.

Gary

[loki74]

I know its massively tedious, but for this one I would just cut it out w/ polygonal lasso. It doesnt look like any parts of the hair have a blurry edge.

Otherwise, a very good matte plugin I know of is Photron Primatte. Apple's Shake comes with it and it uses it to do greenscreen etc for video/film, but AFAIK it also has a Photoshop version of the plugin. Expect to pay a fair amount for it though...

[Photo678]

In all honesty, i have jobs like this before where i just cut that whole tuft of hair out in the back and gave a "bun" look to her hair...most of my clients dont understand the ridiculous amount of time it takes to do something like cutting out the background from hair, and it is extremely difficult to get it to look right....so as i said, i would just cut that whole tuft out....not sure if thats possible for you, but go for it

[vtgts500kw]

use the extract filter, very easy and very fast to use.