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03/07/2007 03:05:49 AM · #1 |
How do I go about selecting around this boys hair so I can make adjustments to the background without making it look artificial. The problem as I see it is that you can see the background through parts of the hair. How do I make this selection?
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03/07/2007 03:10:19 AM · #2 |
Forget it, no chance because it's OOF, I'd say
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03/07/2007 03:18:44 AM · #3 |
| Take a look at each channel. Often there will be one where the part you want to select is more defined than the others. |
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03/07/2007 04:30:46 AM · #4 |
Very difficult - even if it was in focus. What I do in these situations is first use the extract tool with smart highlighting - that gets a crude extraction. Then use the eraser with the Dune Grass brush:
You need to adjust the size of the eraser brush frequently and also need to rotate the image (Free Transform) to get the brush at a good angle (wish I could rotate the friggin brush). Once you get it cropped in a bit, create a new layer, then use the clone stamp tool with the same Dune Grass brush, uncheck the "aligned" option and turn on All Layers option, ALT+Click a section of good hair and clone from that around the edges - again adjusting size and rotating image.
Essentially what you are doing is re-creating hair. When you create a decent patch of new hair, you can dupe that layer (CTRL+J) and move that piece to another area and use Free Transform (CTRL+T) to size, skew and rotate it to match up. Also adjust HSB, BC, etc to blend it. Keep patches of hair on different layers so you can move, clone and work with them individually.
It's a tedious process and would be more rewarding if starting with a better source image in the first place ;-) but here's a fairly quick go at it (about 20 minutes).
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03/07/2007 04:33:15 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
It's a tedious process and would be more rewarding if starting with a better source image in the first place ;-) but here's a fairly quick go at it (about 20 minutes).
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ever consider quitting carpentry and taking up hair-dressing instead?
that hair work is remarkable! |
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03/07/2007 12:53:51 PM · #6 |
| Thanks Art, that's good stuff. Maybe the image isn't good enough to work on but I'll give it a go I think. |
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03/07/2007 01:21:28 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
It's a tedious process and would be more rewarding if starting with a better source image in the first place ;-) but here's a fairly quick go at it (about 20 minutes).
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and here, all this time, i always thought the only thing you knew how to use in photoshop was the godzilla brush.
who knew?
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03/08/2007 03:13:16 AM · #8 |
Thanks again for your advice Art, here's where I got to with the image after your help. I know it's not the best image as the focus was on the shirt but it's hard getting animals and children to work together :)
I'll keep working on it as there are still a few things I want to tweak. Any suggestions would be welcomed of course.
Message edited by author 2007-03-08 03:14:39.
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03/08/2007 04:58:24 AM · #9 |
| Coolness. It's looking pretty good actually. I left a comment on it. ...and a couple more on some of your other photos mainly because you were 2 comments shy of 666. :) |
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