Thursday, March 19, 2009
Photoshop Workbench 169: Selecting Difficult Subjects Like Fur and Hair
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One of the requests that I receive more often than any other is how to extract difficult subjects, such as animals with fur and people with wispy hair, from their background. In today’s Workbench, I’m going to give you a preview of a soon-to-be-released topic from my upcoming Photoshop CS4 Companion eBook. It’s called “Sophisticated Selections Using an Existing Channel.”
In that topic and in today’s Workbench, we’ll explore a channel-based strategy for dealing with these more challenging scenarios. Our goal is to make a clean selection of the cat’s fur, then use this selection to place the cat on a different background. Despite the complexity of this technique, it represents the most powerful way to make difficult selections.
Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 2:40 am
What a great workbench. This is so informative. Thank you very much.
Monday, March 23, 2009 at 12:37 am
That was great but not new as you already have recorded a tutorial on the topic in the past. I would like you to record a tutorial on the most difficult and very common problem that I encounter. – making a mask when there is very little color and value difference between the subject and background for example a person (with loose hair) against a brown background (eg a mountain).
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Mark, you should explore the LAB colour space to do intricate selections as described in this book: http://www.amazon.ca/Photoshop-LAB-Color-Adventures-Colorspace/dp/0321356780
it is easy and truly powerful