Cool Photoshop - Hair selection

[mazharkhan1]

I am using CS2 while copying blue layer new layer appaire as Alpha1 and it is a totally balack layer why? this option is only in CS3??

[champjaved]

how to cut hair without white background?

[SfViola157]

@richest4u Since college , I'd been extremely self conscious as well as embarrassed regarding my own dark, rough hair on my face on my upper lip along withchin. Waxing certainly not worked well and Iswear bleaching made more hair grow. That is precisely why I tried this device bit.ly\vC23Ux and it is truly changed my life. you ought to certainly give it a try.

[themasterpiece95]

thx so much, dude !!! been searching for this kind of tut for a quite long time :D

[DigidesignScrap]

thanks for the great tutorial

[tolits357]

wo0Ww.!

[OhFishyFish]

Man, brilliant kiwi accent!

[abirehmani]

can please try it with sum sort of another background i mean not white

[abirehmani]

2:06 she hate you first than photoshop lolzzz

[theelectricartist]

Because if you listened to the commentary you would know that the purpose of the video wasn't to ' s e l e c t ' hair, but to demonstrate a form of selection - namely using channels. It was also a QUICK job, not a 'take all fucking day and do it right for the perfectionists' job.

[karanbmw100]

@theelectricartist : from where u open the level tab in photoshop cs

[Vayton]

@karanbmw100 : control/command + L

[osasp]

why didnt you burn the edges then?

[richest4u]

You should use a very mild "refine edge" to remove the halo effect, just take the edges in a bit and add a very small amount of feathering, so you don't take too much away from the hair itself. Also try a bit of colour balance to make your subject look more natural against the background. Thumbs up if this was helpful to you so that others may see! Or if its not... sorry dude/dudettes :(

[theelectricartist]

Great idea. Except that this video was made before 'Refine Edge' was invented.

[LaymensLament]

@theelectricartist Well, I see the option refine at @ 4:03 LOL. No offense I really appreciate the video.

[thecottonwolf]

@theelectricartist actually, cs3 has a defringe option.... would have fixed this. And in really early photoshop versions you could always make a selection, feather it by 1px, remove fringe that way...

[hal7ter]

After decreasing the resolution, all the imperfections of 'haloing ' would also disappear, no? Thanks for the tutorial - I really appreciate it.

[Shilag]

I agree with what some people have said. You will hardly EVER need to select hair from a totally solid background, it's completely useless, and really easy to do. What I'm sure everyone, including me, would actually want to know is how to select it from a more complex background, something more natural for photos.

[sepro8919]

dud!you gave me a new knowledge about photoshop!thanks!

[maartenroellekens]

where can i find the level ?

[TheRogueMonk]

what is that tool bar called? i dont have it on default

[ellie032005]

Fantastic tutorial. Thank you

[rroobboo999]

Very bad selection. There was plenty of white edges so it is not professional work. I wouldn`t pay even a dollar for that picture

[jaysonpana]

what if the background is a forest or what if the background has design? Its very easy to extract something with a plain background.

[Parinazshahrzad]

1- I did the same thing for my picture but even after resizing it, I see gray shadow around hair and when I put my picture on different backgrounds, those tiny gray shadow between the hairs are very obvious.

2- At the end, for using brush tools to touch up the border edge, I did it but it left black line on. The flow and opacity were 100% as I noticed and the foreground color is black so I don't know how to prevent it. Thanks

[doremifasolatidomati]

i think u too fast~haizz~

[barokbadsmile]

pls add the video how to make those channels 

[dittyrajan]

very very very thanks to you....it was a great tutorial......my all wishes to you .....thank you very much........

[immortaltechpt]

using Select -» color range, picking the background color and then deleting it gives a better result..

[billytalentrocks345]

I have a very stupid question, but I'm new to CS so be nice :P. How do I rotate a layer for example 90 degrees CW? I can only flip it, or rotate every layer 90 degrees.

Thanks :D

[theelectricartist]

@billytalentrocks345 Under EDIT/TRANSFORM you will find the various rotate buttons that apply only to the selected layer.

cheers

[800988]

@billytalentrocks345 Select the layer. Then stand up from your chair. Turn and face away from the computer monitor. Now you have rotated 90 degrees.

Thank you very much.

[klaudiqaaa]

awesome <3

[bezieblogg]

how do i gert a higher resulotion picture?

[hazel7797]

Pitched beautifully, thanks for a great video!

Hazel x

[MrKaramjbara]

i can't find LEVELS

[90siddharth]

@MrKaramjbara  Image < adjustments <level...or ctrl L

[MrKaramjbara]

@90siddharth thanks a lot

[oposoum]

Terrible job! 10 minutes video for the same bad results you can have with magic wand! The hair in the final composition must fade from blonde to blue background and not have white edges all around. Its too fake!

[AppleCoalition]

@oposoum fuuuck you

[Triple9Nickel]

wait so the way you remove those specs and imperfections is by making the image smaller? It was a great tutorial up until that!

[theelectricartist]

There are other ways to do this. But if you had paid attention, you'd know that the finished size of the image was to be much smaller than the resolution of the operating image. The 'advice' was to perform all functions at a higher resolution than finished specifically for web graphics so that the final reduction would lose all the imperfections. If this was a high res operation, the technique would be different right throughout.

[ezzenjeh]

but what if you dont have a white background in the photo then yuo wont get the right selection?

[theelectricartist]

To ezzenjeh and all the others who have asked, and as I have explained several times, the purpose of this video was to demonstrate A TYPE OF SELECTION TECHNIQUE not to specifically select hair. I chose hair because it's difficult. I have other videos that show how to extract hair from a multi-coloured background.

[iyavor]

Question for theelectricartist- this technique works great if you have a solid background. But what if we want to extract a person's head from a photo where the background isn't solid? How do we get all of the hair right in that case?

[5032sac]

Nice work!

[ha1cu]

good trick on WHITE background.

[ankit866]

hey can we cut our hairs and change to other hair style

[MrKhan65]

thanks for a great tuturial

[prerakvyas]

Thanx Mate...that was very very helpful

[acanthopleura]

Are you from new zealand?

[theelectricartist]

Yeah bro...!

[crazybellanz]

Me too! :)

[HingridYuan]

pow , meu filho . To entendendo td ! Traduz aew pow !

[melodyl52]

Great tutorial...thank you

[rockmeslowly79]

0was this image already cut out before?

[rockmeslowly79]

this is genius....5/5

[triggertheoriegroupy]

New Zealander ?

[pejoy2k]

Great job, you are fluent at this.

[frogmarch100]

Excellent tutorial. I always wanted to know how to accurately pick out wispy hair thanks so much

[buddy4784]

very good..

[JimboUK71]

Great tutorial!

[pandaraz]

great

[mihaelasco]

I make the black copy and after I click levels, it turns to colored image (not black and white), why so?

thanks a lot

[LastOne47]

This is amazing I could never get hair right. Helps a lot thanks.

[luisitox807]

wow,this is powerful sh*t, awesome!!!

[ADPhotoshop]

does any1 know if there is a way to get rid of the white-grey that sourrounds her hair?

[peaceinworldforever]

it is a very tough thing to do man:(

[andrewwk6]

you can use the burn tool very carefully, with a small size and hardness. just keep trying. it depends also of the hair color and size of the image. you can also use the blur tool (the one that looks like a drop) and fix that out. I hope it helps if you haven't find a solution ;)

[justtypegladson]

@ADPhotoshop

feather selection / contract

[floxxflow]

nice tutorial, thx!

[peaceinworldforever]

Great tutoriial but I have a question,what if the backround is not completely white?Can we also apply this technique?Thank you.

[ADPhotoshop]

i cant do its, way too hard. wish there was a way though

[luisitox807]

believe, as a experience photoshop user, this is by far the easiest way to choose the hair. what part u got lost?

[ADPhotoshop]

dont worry, i got it al, just the end result has a wite fuzzy line around it

[ThePilsneris]

if the background is not completly white, as i had in my case your totaly screwed ;) and also the image resolution has to be very high if you want to use this technique.

[pacorocha]

Best one I've seen yet!

[tkoauto]

Thank you so much !! you are the best one on youtube !! good job !!

[Snovii]

THANK YOU! You've reaally helped me alot :D

[bishopdutta]

it's relay cool .

[Drmikekuna]

nicely done

[rGhOsTr]

Thank you

[Humance]

amazing :O

[incognito611]

Great stuff. Keep it up.

[ryovan]

One question. If the image is only black and white colour, how do we use the channels instead? Any other way?

[rushnp774]

Thanks for this video! I linked to it in a post on my blog:

Metavo Photo

[chocomocha]

great tutorial!!! thanks alot!

[roseven1]

if you think you're smarter then why dont you show your own (better?) video and show (us) this man you're saying should go for a better teaching classes. otherwise, eat your words, tsk tsk

[roseven1]

Thanks a lot... very informative and helpful..

[juju6018]

Dude thank you so much you helped us remember some of the techniques that we used in class for our photoshop homework, my class friend says he would rather watch youtube videos than to go to class for four hours

[paulprescott72]

You have not isolated the hair, it might be ok for a web header, but not for a magazine. There is a white halo around the hair. This is not the correct/professional way to do it.

Try harder

[SuperDudeNotMan]

there is no (correct) way

everyone has their own way to do anything it photshop, aka makeovers.

[fazzadielle]

It works perfectly fine and yes, this is the correct way.

To remove these white halo, you only need to add one more step:

On Layer Box, select hair layer with Control Button pressed (to select only the hair), go to Selection - Modify - Contract - 1px. Apply.

Press CTRL+I to invert and press delete button. CTRL+A to unselect.

Just it.

[UgneAndCb]

Tahnk u! But have other problem HOW DO LONG HAIR> ? pleaze help me ;D

[kiwianto]

Really awesome tutorial. I ve had trouble extracting the hair, but ur tutorial had made it easier.....Thanks heaps

[ilifter]

selecting the hair off of an image which has a white background is not really very helpful? Nice tutorial but would be so much better to see how to take the hair out of an original image.

[StarWarNerd]

you should Defringe it so the hair will lok more real ??

[vmogui]

Excellent and very useful!

[alannova]

very good and useful

[imi2k]

u r simply brilliant and very frindly i like the way u have teach this tutorial. thanks alot once again

[COHneger]

?? stupid vid... white backgrounded picture

-_-

[trini19140]

yea but how can i cut out the hair when the background isnt white? for example a normal regular vacation pic.

[BuddhaMaster84]

thanks usefull. But you know you can even make the hair better/blend smoother with the bg when creating a alpha mask - make the edges of the hair strains slighly transparent. I dont know how to exactly do it right off but i know its possible. I can try it but i guess you are aware of it with your knowledge.

Uhm i just wannet say that because you can still clearly see the "white lighing" on the hair-strain-edges at the end

[theelectricartist]

Yes I know. I do it all the time. But when making tutorial videos, I like to show the 'long' way. Guess it's the old 'teacher' in me. Cheers.

[funkymonkey494]

very good, ya know, you can use the left and right braquet tools to resise your brush.

[theelectricartist]

Yes. but if you were doing it for a very large image, you'd take a little more care and do it slightly differently.

[jin2283]

if ok for small image, but if for large.. the picture look very dirty rite?

[theelectricartist]

Sorry I don't quite understand about the yellow highlight. Can you give me the time in the video that this occurs? Such as 4 mins 34 seconds in?

[ArcticWolf72]

You have written back to me about i question i have asked,but i still can't get the selection you get... plus i noticed you have more setting then i do, such as how did you get the yellow highlight in the circle?

[twinstahss]

Great tutorial. I have now learned a better way to select. Can't wait to see the multi-colored background tutorial coming soon!

[alwaysinout]

This is very useful ..

Thanks ..

Keep the videos coming ....

[theelectricartist]

Keep watching. There's a hair selection on a multi-colored background coming.......

[drswaran]

good job..and clean work with masking

[theelectricartist]

The information I have is that Mask Pro 3 (which came out in 2003 and was developed for Photoshop 7) causes Photoshop CS3 to crash on both PCs and Macs. While this video was designed to show the use of channels for selections, much comment has been raised over selecting hair, and I will be producing a new video soon. (It's my experience that one-click masking programs are never accurate enough for true production requirements, and it's always best to learn the skill yourself.)

[metabog]

What if you don't have a white background?

[theelectricartist]

New video coming for a non-white background.

[3Deity]

In production you don't have time to muck about in PhotoShop, just get Extensis Mask Pro!!!

[theelectricartist]

Can you still buy that? Last version was 5 years ago.

[3Deity]

God only knows - I'm still on version 1 because it works! I still run Windows 2000 and to be honest there is virtually nothing in CS3 you can't do in version 7 of 'Shop.

Its that thing of getting things done rather than talking about how much better this or that is.

Mask Pro 3 works perfectly on XP with CS3.

[ArcticWolf72]

Is cool photoshop different then CS2? cause when i do your tutorial the image doesn't turn red but the whole image including the selection.... what i mean is when you copy channel blue copy and view it, all that is red is the woman, when i do it... the whole picture turns red.

[theelectricartist]

This was done in CS3, which in this area is no different to CS2. It sounds like you alreadyhave a selection loaded when you load a new one (or a Quick Mask). Make sure nothing is selected and QM is switched off when you load a selection.

[abraham136]

what if you have a dark background?

[evildonkey]

It's the same really inverted. The person would then be the lighter element which you have to force into being white. This is just a forum of lumakey really.

[wjwallis]

you're obviously a kuwee from your accent!

[digidave]

Impossible... Its on a white background! Thats as easy as you will ever get

[theelectricartist]

Hey there Digidave, the purpose of the video was more about showing a selection technique using channels. It's possible to select hair out of a really convoluted background, but that can't be done in a 10 minute video. Maybe soon...

[digidave]

I appreciate the time constraints... Have you considdered the magic wand... Just kiddin

Do you ever invert the channels after the levels adjustment? Sometimes that helps, Depending on the image of course but it may help with the thin milky coating thats left.

[arpanbhagat]

Great Tutorial ! Thanks so much, lots of help this to me