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Hair Extraction ! |
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Take something with hair, extract it perfectly to fit onto another background |
There are many methods for using hair extraction. Some are more perfect than others of course. The colour range tool for example can often be used, but it gives an overall amateurish effect.
For this tutorial, we will take this cropped picture of a woman, who has obviously just been sky diving.
Tasty. Ok, let's start by duplicating that layer (Layer > Duplicate Layer) Just incase we mess it up a little.
Take the colour out of that layer, by clicking Image > Adjustments > Desaturate.. and then duplicate it again.
Set the blending options (on the layers palate) to Overlay, and merge it down (Layer > Merge Down)
Nothing should have really changed yet.. she has just been rolling around in exposure. Great! Let's take our paintbrush tool. Set it to a large hard brush (75px?), with black as your foreground colour and the mode of the brush set to overlay.
Right. We are wanting to create a mask really. So, paint over her, trying to stay away from the edge of the hairs on her head. You can be quite generous on the outsides of her clothes and whatnot, as the overlay tool is quite generous here as we have a light background
To take out big chunds, just set your brush mode back to normal. If it goes wrong, more than likely it's your fault. Ah, one last point here.. when you're painting with the overlay mode, you'll notice that when you run over her clothes onto the background - the background will turn a little darker. Easy to fix, just swap your foreground colour back to white and paint back over where it's dark!
When you've finished, you might have something that looks along the lines of...
The reason i wanted you to stay away from the ends of her hair, is because you don't want to confuse the program into thinking the background is actaully the hair because you painted over it. (confused there? Just ignore it...)
Moving on, click Select > All.... then.... Edit > Copy Merged
Right moving on. Create a levels layer This is at the bottom of the layers palate, the button named "Create new fill or adjustment layer"... when the levels box opens... just click ok.
Change your foreground colour to White. Now hold ALT and click the mask thumbnail of the adjustments layer we just created, on the layers palate. Now click Edit > Paste.. phew!
Hide the layer beneath (the black and white one that you were brushing on for a while)
Now paste a nice sunset (or whatever) onto your canvas, and move it to the top! Finally, we want to link it with the previous layer.. so hold ALT and click between the layers (On the layers palate, it's the line that seperates your new horizon background and the levels layer)... or Layer > Link with previous
That's pretty much it. There WILL be some hard edges, so.. with your levels mask selected.. just add a guassian blur (maybe 2 pixels.. Filter > Blur > Guassian Blur)
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