Hair

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:08:14 -0400, "Rassie" wrote:

Once upon a time there was a tutorial online which I can’t currently find. Re-entering the PS waters. 😉

Anyway what I want is the ability to place a person with a new background. However, I want to keep the details of the hair…the fly-away strands. This tutorial I mentioned encorporated the use of the dodge tool. I can’t get the results I want.

Any suggestions or links would greatly be appreciate.

Susan

Susan,

You’ve picked a good one;-)
I tend to stick to Kojak types or Mr Brinner, but there is a tutorial for download at the folowing link,
http://www.shanzcan.com/photoshop/channelmask_tut.zip

this uses channel masks, never seen one that uses the dodge tool, seen one that used the background eraser and extract though.
HTH
Mike H

Mike,
The tutorial is wonderful! Thank you!

I always ending up biting off more than I can chew at the beginning of a project. ;-0

Susan
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:08:14 -0400, "Rassie" wrote:

Once upon a time there was a tutorial online which I can’t currently find. Re-entering the PS waters. 😉

Anyway what I want is the ability to place a person with a new background. However, I want to keep the details of the hair…the fly-away strands. This tutorial I mentioned encorporated the use of the dodge tool. I can’t get the results I want.

Any suggestions or links would greatly be appreciate.

Susan

Susan,

You’ve picked a good one;-)
I tend to stick to Kojak types or Mr Brinner, but there is a tutorial for download at the folowing link,
http://www.shanzcan.com/photoshop/channelmask_tut.zip

this uses channel masks, never seen one that uses the dodge tool, seen one that used the background eraser and extract though.
HTH
Mike H

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:07:40 -0400, "Rassie" wrote:

Mike,
The tutorial is wonderful! Thank you!

I always ending up biting off more than I can chew at the beginning of a project. ;-0

Susan,

Glad to help, but you should really be thanking Shan Canfield (Shanzcan);-)
Regards
Mike H

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:08:14 -0400, "Rassie"
wrote:

Once upon a time there was a tutorial online which I can’t currently find. Re-entering the PS waters. 😉

Anyway what I want is the ability to place a person with a new background. However, I want to keep the details of the hair…the fly-away strands. This tutorial I mentioned encorporated the use of the dodge tool. I can’t get the results I want.

Any suggestions or links would greatly be appreciate.

Susan

If the hair is differently colored than the current
background, all you need to do is use the extract tool, with the "force foreground" option checked. If not, then modify the hair with the dodge tool so it stands out enough, select the background without selecting the hair, delete the background, and paste the new background into the picture with the "paste into" command.

Rassie wrote:

Once upon a time there was a tutorial online which I can’t currently find. Re-entering the PS waters. 😉

Anyway what I want is the ability to place a person with a new background. However, I want to keep the details of the hair…the fly-away strands. This tutorial I mentioned encorporated the use of the dodge tool. I can’t get the results I want.

Any suggestions or links would greatly be appreciate.

Susan

Susan,

Try this link: http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

Scroll down to the PS 7 stuff and look for "Advanced Masking

Old stuff that’s NEW!"

"Dr" Brown uses the dodge tool in this for masking.

There is a bunch of useful stuff at that link.

Hope this helps,
Dave

Thanks, this is a great site!

Susan
"Dave" wrote in message

Rassie wrote:

Once upon a time there was a tutorial online which I can’t currently find. Re-entering the PS waters. 😉

Anyway what I want is the ability to place a person with a new background. However, I want to keep the details of the hair…the fly-away strands. This tutorial I mentioned encorporated the use of the dodge tool. I can’t get the results I want.

Any suggestions or links would greatly be appreciate.

Susan

Susan,

Try this link: http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html
Scroll down to the PS 7 stuff and look for "Advanced Masking
Old stuff that’s NEW!"

"Dr" Brown uses the dodge tool in this for masking.
There is a bunch of useful stuff at that link.

Hope this helps,
Dave