Photoshop Advanced Hair Selection

This tutorial shows one of my favorite techniques for making complicated selections, like hair. This can be used to remove the subject from the background and replace it with a different background.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• photoshop
• selection
• hair
• composite
• channels
• background
• remove
• masking
• tutorial
• photo retouching
• photography tutorials
• photoshop tutorial

[kenthephotoman]

I'm taking requests for videos. Just post here.

[mikeymyer]

Thank you so much! This is the video I'v been looking for months. And your voice work is amazing! Fav and Subed right away sir!.

[kenthephotoman]

@mikeymyer Glad you like it, more coming very soon!

[kenthephotoman]

Thanks - more to come soon!

[jesuselamtrinidad]

Nice tut, but can you do something more challenging. I also have cs4. I would like to do a chart for my barber, but there's a lot of different colors in the background. Your video was really easy, but do something lot more challenging, because there's alot of us looking for more advance tut.... Thanks in advance

[k1eee]

Idk why i never though of overlay, now im doing this farely well but theres some points that are still messy, could i like focus on one spot maybe by putting a marque around a selected area and edit that one spot??

[slewis]

this is awesome, thank you!

[Fatalloo]

Hey, thanks so much!!!

[fingers714]

no one ever talks about selecting or isolating hair for touching up an existing background. It's always for changing a background. Its more difficult to select hair and touch up an existing background. Especially when the subject is shot on location with multiple colors and lights in the background and a shallow d.o.f.

How about taking out a light source running out from behind you subjects head. Blond hair, yellow light. or black hair red light.

[xxxAl0nexxx]

Awesome



[menelikesisay]

REALY SO COOL

[Novica89]

Wow man !! i have been looking for HOURS,went over like,at least 20 videos,websites,tutorials etc about advanced cuttouts when the image has that kind of hair and all i found was rookies doing tuts :// Subbed to your channel,you deserve it !