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Cutting Out Complex Shape in Photoshop

Ted
Posted Dec 25, 2009 2:50 PM
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OK, so let's say I take a portrait of someone and want to effectively cut them out and place them on a different background using layers. How do you accomplish that when it comes to hair?

Ted
www.bozarthphotographic.com
Scott
Posted Dec 25, 2009 8:22 PM
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Charlotte, NC
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depending on the version of photoshop you have your options are going to be the magic wand tool, the quick select tool, the pen tool, or one of the several variants of the lasso tool.
Lindsay
Posted Dec 26, 2009 4:00 AM
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Monroe, NC
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Cutting out hair is one of the more complicated things to do in Photoshop. There's many different ways to do it and how you do it depends on the background. There are plug-ins like Mask Pro that are supposed to do the cutting out for you but might not always work as well as doing it by hand. Without a plug-in, here's a link to a tutorial that shows two different ways. Professional photoshopers will take it even further and literally zoom in to the pixel level to get the hair selection perfect.
Ted
Posted Dec 26, 2009 12:13 PM
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Charlotte, NC
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Good info - thank you!
Justin Bonaparte
Posted Dec 26, 2009 4:07 PM
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Charlotte, NC
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depending on the version of photoshop you have your options are going to be the magic wand tool, the quick select tool, the pen tool, or one of the several variants of the lasso tool.

I like to select by color.
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