preserving fine hairlines when masking

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helene_lehrer
Jan 16, 2007
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I’m using photoshop 7 and the operating system is windows XP on a PC. My questions is, Does anyone have a good technique to mask out around hair and preserve those fine hairs without getting a blockhead look?
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Bob Levine
Jan 16, 2007
Depends on the picture. Why not post a link to it at www.pixentral.com so we can have a look.

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Ed_Hannigan
Jan 16, 2007
Look at your channels. If there is one with good contrast, duplicate it and enhance the contrast as mush as you can. You can use the new channel to make a mask.

This is a difficult problem and can take a lot of work. You might check out the Knockout 2 plugin, which has some tools for this kind of selecting/mnasking.
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Bernie
Jan 16, 2007
Phos…., "Advanced masking and isolation" #1, 27 Jan 2005 8:06 am </cgi-bin/webx?14/0>
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helene_lehrer
Jan 16, 2007
Thanks for all your help. I’m going to try some of these methods but I also posted the photo to www.pixentral.com. It’s at this link: < http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1aPcCsPZKh6hOOssPY WudPE2wLdRi>

Would love to hear if you think I can succeed in masking this head.
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ImageSkill
Jan 16, 2007
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I’m using photoshop 7 and the operating system is windows XP on a PC. My questions is, Does anyone have a good technique to mask out around hair and preserve those fine hairs without getting a blockhead look?

Try to use third-part masking pug-ins

MaskPro: http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=4 ImageSkill Background Remover:
http://www.imageskill.com/backgroundremover/backgroundremove r.html Corel KnockOut:
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CorelCom/Lay out&c=Product_C1&cid=1152105061771&lc=en
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ImageSkill
Jan 16, 2007
wrote:
I’m using photoshop 7 and the operating system is windows XP on a PC. My questions is, Does anyone have a good technique to mask out around hair and preserve those fine hairs without getting a blockhead look?

Try to use third-part masking pug-ins

MaskPro: http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=4 ImageSkill Background Remover:
http://www.imageskill.com/backgroundremover/backgroundremove r.html Corel KnockOut:
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CorelCom/Lay out&c=Product_C1&cid=1152105061771&lc=en
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Jan 16, 2007
Use the most contrasty channel, duplicate it to use as a layer mask, then use dodge and burn tools to enhance it.
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chrisjbirchall
Jan 17, 2007
Explore the Extract filter. I assume you have a much higher resolution file than the one posted. Extract does need good sharp detail to work efficiently.

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