Good techniques to select hair or other hard objects in PhotoShop 7 ?

Prince2k · May 28, 2003, 08:51 AM

Guys i need good way to cut hard pictures like to cut the hair exactly as it is.
I use now the Lasso Tool + Edit in quick mask mode but still its hard work. Can some one make my work faster and easy ?
Any tip will be good

UberLord · May 28, 2003, 09:28 AM

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Originally posted by Prince2k
Can some one make my work faster and easy ?

Aside from hiring an artist, not that I know of.

Malus · May 28, 2003, 10:15 PM

I was going to suggest using the quick mask, but you seem to already have used it. If you had the money, you could use Corel Knockout or a similar program to do the dirty work for you. If you're desperate, you could try to use the magic wandm though it's not necessarily the best way.

Prince2k · May 29, 2003, 04:00 AM

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Originally posted by Malus
I was going to suggest using the quick mask, but you seem to already have used it. If you had the money, you could use Corel Knockout or a similar program to do the dirty work for you. If you're desperate, you could try to use the magic wandm though it's not necessarily the best way.

Hehe i got the "Money"

10x for the tip man

***Zardon*** · May 29, 2003, 04:57 AM

There are several ways to do this, you can use a mixture of paths/bezier curves and masking techniques, but isolating hair, depending on the image is not an easy task to achieve accurately.

Prince2k · May 29, 2003, 07:34 AM

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If you had the money, you could use Corel Knockout or a similar program to do the dirty work for you.

OK man i got the "Corel Knockout" it's great tool !!!
But when i'm exporting my work to PSD and opening the PSD in the photoshop 7 i need to select the alllll thing from the beginning because i cont move the layer, so the work in Corel Knockout good and fast but not useful at all

. Or i just exporting the PSD wrong i don't know

May 28, 2003, 08:51 AM	#1
Prince2k Pigeon Lover Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Good techniques to select hair or other hard objects in PhotoShop 7 ? Guys i need good way to cut hard pictures like to cut the hair exactly as it is. I use now the Lasso Tool + Edit in quick mask mode but still its hard work. Can some one make my work faster and easy ? Any tip will be good

May 28, 2003, 10:15 PM	#3
Malus BSD SMASH! Join Date: May 2002 Location: A rabbit hole. . . Posts: 1,170 Rep Power: 0	I was going to suggest using the quick mask, but you seem to already have used it. If you had the money, you could use Corel Knockout or a similar program to do the dirty work for you. If you're desperate, you could try to use the magic wandm though it's not necessarily the best way. __________________ quad (FreeBSD/amd64 8-CURRENT): Intel Q6600 - Asus P5E-VM HDMI - 2x2 GB Kingston PC6400 DDR2 Ram - Seagate 320GB 7200RPM HD - 2xSeagate 1TB 7200RPM HD in RAID 1 via ZFS - Lite-On 20x DVD Multi Recorder - Coolermaster Centurion 5 router (FreeBSD/amd64 8-CURRENT): Intel E4500 - Intel D945GCNL - 2 GB PC6400 Mushkin Ram - Lite-On 48x24x48x16 - Seagate 320GB 7200RPM HD - Silverstone SST-SG02-F wanderer (FreeBSD/i386 7-CURRENT): Lenovo Thinkpad T61p mini (OS X 10.5): Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.8Ghz, 4 GB Mushkin PC5400 Ram - Headroom MicroDAC Portable sound: Rockboxed iPod Video -> Westone UM2's Not-So-Portable Sound: Headroon MicroDAC -> Singlepower PPX3-SLAM -> Grado RS-1's or Beyerdynamic DT-880's Very-Not-Portable-Sound: Squeezebox v3 -> Denon AVR-1507 -> B&W 683's & Sunfire HRS-10

May 29, 2003, 04:57 AM	#5
*Zardon* enchanted Join Date: May 2002 Location: Driverheaven Posts: 32,256 Rep Power: 3150	There are several ways to do this, you can use a mixture of paths/bezier curves and masking techniques, but isolating hair, depending on the image is not an easy task to achieve accurately.