Selecting Hair in Photoshop - 6 Video Tutorials

[RushNP774]

I just wrote a post entitled Selecting Hair in Photoshop that shows many different ways to select someone's hair, jacket fur, or an animal's fur so that you can move them to another image, change hair color etc. Some of the concepts demonstrated are:

• Creating masks from the channels in your image
• Employing levels adjustments to help create contrast between the hair and background
• Working with the Refine Edge tool to reduce artifacts in your selection
• Use LAB color to assist in selecting hair against complex backgrounds
• Selecting hair & people with the Extract tool

There are six videos with over an hour's worth of content. They should get you started on the many different methods Photoshop offers to help with this complex task. Hopefully you find them useful!

If there are any other tutorials you'd like to see, please reply here, make a post on my blog, or send me a PM and I'll do what I can to get something written up. Thanks!

[felix.reichardt]

will have a look at the tutorials later today. Thanks for posting.

[RushNP774]

No problem for posting! I'm glad you liked it. If there is anything else you'd like to learn about, please let me know and I'll write a post about it.

[12stones]

I'll be coming back to take a look at this so this post is to mark my place. I can't see the videos at work so I'll check these out tonight. Thanks for sharing.

[RushNP774]

Not a problem Ricky, glad you found them helpful! I wasn't expecting to get much interest with these tutorials, but I was wrong If there is anything else you'd like to know about (especially glamour/portrait photography related), please let me know and I'll write a post about it.

Is your nickname based on the band by chance?

[Rain Lily]

I bookmarked it for watching later (when kids aren't around, lol) - Thanks for posting this!

[12stones]

Originally Posted by RushNP774

Is your nickname based on the band by chance?

Yes, it is. I'm a big fan.

[RushNP774]

Originally Posted by Rain Lily

I bookmarked it for watching later (when kids aren't around, lol) - Thanks for posting this!

Sounds good. Hopefully you'll find them quite helpful. I had no idea there were so many ways in Photoshop to do the same thing.

By the way, congrats on getting Picture of the Week! I absolutely love the two versions of the shot. The black & white definitely deserves the award, but the light blue shirt looks fantastic against the pink wall as well. The slightly dreamy, desaturated look just enhances the overall look too IMO.

Originally Posted by 12stones

Yes, it is. I'm a big fan.

They definitely rate pretty high on my list too. I don't know if I've ever met anyone else who has even heard of them, let alone liked em, so I had to ask

[12stones]

Originally Posted by RushNP774

They definitely rate pretty high on my list too. I don't know if I've ever met anyone else who has even heard of them, let alone liked em, so I had to ask

Yeah, I don't think they get the credit they deserve, but at least they're still hanging on...

[RushNP774]

Originally Posted by 12stones

Yeah, I don't think they get the credit they deserve, but at least they're still hanging on...

I agree with you 100%. It's funny how we've highjacked this thread into a discussion about Photoshop to a great rock band

Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions for things they'd like a new tutorial about, please let me know and I'll try to get one written soon. Thanks again!