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Hi folks,
I have had this problem for months and always tried various work arounds but never get the "professional" look i am after.
When cutting anything out of a picture I always use the path tool and then re-tweak it as necessary. Now this is fine when working with people with short hair or hair thats cut outable but falls flat on it’s face when it comes to people with frizzy hair or close up shots where you can see individual strands that because of the way hair is gives a semi transparent look.
In the past I have drawn a path around most of the head and hair and copied it to a new layer. I then drew another path around the troubled area including some background and the rest of the head and then copy that to another layer. I then switch off the original picture layer so all I am seeing is the head and hair on separate layers.
I then try various methods to get the rest of the background cut away. Usually using select colour range and deleting it away, or painting it out one bit at a time. Now this is a time consuming task, doesn’t give the best results, or at least not to the level I want. Also it doesn’t work on a lot of the pictures I want to edit.
So I was wondering how the professionals do it, how do they get superb results?
Regards
Paul
I have had this problem for months and always tried various work arounds but never get the "professional" look i am after.
When cutting anything out of a picture I always use the path tool and then re-tweak it as necessary. Now this is fine when working with people with short hair or hair thats cut outable but falls flat on it’s face when it comes to people with frizzy hair or close up shots where you can see individual strands that because of the way hair is gives a semi transparent look.
In the past I have drawn a path around most of the head and hair and copied it to a new layer. I then drew another path around the troubled area including some background and the rest of the head and then copy that to another layer. I then switch off the original picture layer so all I am seeing is the head and hair on separate layers.
I then try various methods to get the rest of the background cut away. Usually using select colour range and deleting it away, or painting it out one bit at a time. Now this is a time consuming task, doesn’t give the best results, or at least not to the level I want. Also it doesn’t work on a lot of the pictures I want to edit.
So I was wondering how the professionals do it, how do they get superb results?
Regards
Paul
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