Cutting out around hair

[Yeldarb]

what's the easiest way to cut out the background around long hair blowing in the wind? i'm trying to get a girl's picture out, and put it in with a new background.

[sintax321]

Eraser tool. IT is all i every use to crop. I have yet to find a easy way to crop out hair so u jsut have to zoom in and attack with Eraser.

[Yeldarb]

i've tried this, but the problem is that the hair always gets screwed up, it looks antialiased into the background, and so to get out the background, i have to cut out the hair

[DDD]

use the extract tool It works great for stuff lke hair....play with the settings. You can go around with a big brush then sbutract areas that over lap......Ideal tool for your purpose

[mdipi]

i never got the extract tool, it was good for grunge but that was if for me cause teh edges always turn out fuzzy. :-\ otherwise there isnt an easy way, you just got to either use the lasso or something to select it.

[DDD]

you have to play wit your setting dippy and sometimes use the erase tool within extract to remove pieces of your selection. I use it to extract fine details just takes a lil getting used to.

[mdipi]

when /if i ever get to sit at my PC (my bro plays wc3 24/7) i will fool with it. its really good for grunge still though :thumb:

[mlk]

3d-iva is right - extract tool is the one only thing for hair - because croping around hair is fastidious and won't look good (you'll either have no hair or some of the background left)

i've been doing a poster for a play (btw i'll be posting a thread in the D&D section soon) with a photograph of a girl and had to cut her hair, i used the extract tool:

http://upstage.free.fr/comicp/a.jpg



after the extraction:
http://upstage.free.fr/comicp/b.jpg

[Yeldarb]

whoa, that looks good!
i still couldnt get it right... oh well...

[DDD]

yep right on the money MLK...hey yeldarb there is a tut in the help files of ps I believe start there. It really is not that hard to do. Just gotta get used to the tool. If you wanna post your image I may be able to do it for you if you get really stuck but I would prefer you learn it....You know the whole teach a man to fish.....blah blah blah

[Yeldarb]

i tried again, not looking so good... some areas look great, but then others get all jagged and stuff so i have to start over :(
thats ok 3d-iva, i didn't need the picture for anything really, i was just messing around, and wanted to learn how to do something new :)

thanks for trying to help guys