Selecting & Extracting Hair Tutorial

Selecting & Extracting Hair Tutorial by Mike Galer

Mike wrote:

One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick. Get it wrong and, just like a bad wig, it shows. Extract filters, Magic Erasers and Tragic Extractors don’t even get us close.

I posted this Adobe Photoshop tutorial because sometimes removing the background from hair can be extremely difficult to do. This tutorial explains a simply masking method to cut out hair.

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