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Photoshop Challenge Week #10


SeniorS said:
Don't be afraid of it. It takes time, inspiration and some knownledge. But you got all of it.
Elements and tools that been using in extrcting is mostly elementar. Of course they been used with some trick. But it's learnable.
Actually i'm afraid of hairs too (luckily don't have to select them often) but theoreticly it's just making proper greyscale mask.

So to enhance mine technic searched for some tutorial and finded best one (for now).
It's puse magic. One step is mystical and it works so good.
Selecting & Extracting Hair - Masking Tutorial - Extraction Tips | PhotoshopSupport.com
You have to try it. It's simple. Just find for start easy hair. Hair itself can be complicated but background must be lighter that hair. Then it's very easy.

That was achieved by 5minutes (plus reading and undersranding) without extra painting in mask, just doing first 7 step and adding one mine. I'm amazed myself or i just lucky with original.
Anyway:
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Used material:
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Done by first 7 step in linked tutorial.
My coments.
First i dublicated image and set background to 0 by curves and white point.
That i start to use for tutorial.
Step 1. Didn't know where is "Enhance > Adjust Color > Remove Color". I just used dublicated new image again and merging it with Black&White adjustment layer.
Didn't use "Perfomance tip" after Step 4.
Step 5. You have to CTRL+click on RGB in Channel panel. Then make Layers.
Step 7 (and final for me). I don't have thinked out why it works but IT WORKS!

I hope it'll help someone.
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Wow Senior S! That´s great! I just read through the tutorial and I am going to try, it doesn´t really seem too hard. if I just follow the steps exactly! cool! :)
 
Good job ibclare.

I think we all cheat that way :)


Yesterday i found this tutorial and was amazed for result. It best work on light bakcround but works perfectly (for my eye). And no extra cheating is needed.


P.S. I can't stop playing with that method :)
 
We are all cheats in shop, it's how the program is made - others call it cheating i call it using whatever to achieve the desired out come.
 
Vafann said:
Wow Senior S! That´s great! I just read through the tutorial and I am going to try, it doesn´t really seem too hard. if I just follow the steps exactly! cool! :)
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Yep, it works. I tried it on several images,- magic. Except i think that trick will work only on dark hair (object) on light background (meaning by setting background to white object not loose much).
Still i love it. Now i'm trying to understand how to turn it to stand-alone cut with transparent background (tutorial don't gives that).
 
SeniorS said:
Yep, it works. I tried it on several images,- magic. Except i think that trick will work only on dark hair (object) on light background (meaning by setting background to white object not loose much).
Still i love it. Now i'm trying to understand how to turn it to stand-alone cut with transparent background (tutorial don't gives that).
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Magic wand? :)
 
I see...not so easy as it seems at first sight (but i've got feeling that we are talking about diferent things :) ).
 
What can i say? Excelent.


I'm still suprized how it works (step 7). And didn't find yet easy way to get rid of cliping mask and make it just transparent but with same quality.
 
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