Selecting Hair in Photoshop - 6 Video Tutorials

I just wrote a post entitled Selecting Hair in Photoshop that shows many different ways to select someone's hair, jacket fur, or an animal's fur so that you can move them to another image, change hair color etc. Some of the concepts demonstrated are:

• Creating masks from the channels in your image
  
• Employing levels adjustments to help create contrast between the hair and background
  
• Working with the Refine Edge tool to reduce artifacts in your selection
  
• Use LAB color to assist in selecting hair against complex backgrounds
  
• Selecting hair & people with the Extract tool

Bookmarked them for future viewing: thanks!

ive been wondering how to get thin lines of hair off a green screen and onto a background, thanks!

Hmm, the first video reminds me of a video I saw on RadiantVista.com. The guy even sounds the same. I went to RadiantVista, but saw that the site has closed down. I wonder if it's possible that its the same guy. I believe his name was Mark Johnson.

Glad you found them useful!

@BigBlueDodge: I've never been to RadiantVista before, but it's quite possible it might be the same guy. It wasn't the site he mentioned, but ya never know.

Thanks for your hard work. I have not viewed them yet, but tutorials about one of the most frustrating and hardest things to do in PS are always welcome.

Do you offer the videos for download? Not for distribution, but for personal reference.

Saved for future use.. Thank you!

wow these are great thanks!

CannedHeat wrote in post #7719616
Thanks for your hard work. I have not viewed them yet, but tutorials about one of the most frustrating and hardest things to do in PS are always welcome.

Do you offer the videos for download? Not for distribution, but for personal reference.

Glad you liked them! The videos are embedded in my site from YouTube, and I did not make them. I simply spend way too many hours browsing YouTube watching Photoshop tutorials, and enjoy sharing the better ones I find. If you'd like a copy of them, you'd have to take that up with the original authors.

squashed wrote in post #7720674
Saved for future use.. Thank you!

Anytime

Woodja wrote in post #7720861
wow these are great thanks!

Sure!


If anyone wants me to write a post about an aspect of Photoshop, let me know and I'll try to whip one up. There's an upcoming post outlining a professional post processing workflow containing 16 videos. Stay tuned.

Just a thank you note..

ARMEE wrote in post #7726274
Just a thank you note..

You're very welcome ARMEE!

I'm glad so many people found the tutorials helpful. Definitely wasn't expecting so many responses.