{"id":2065,"date":"2012-08-25T14:58:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T21:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2016-03-22T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T19:40:56","slug":"how-to-extract-an-image-with-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/archives\/2065","title":{"rendered":"How to extract an image with hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2076\" style=\"width: 108px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Screen-shot-2012-08-25-at-3.02.49-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2076\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-08-25 at 3.02.49 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Screen-shot-2012-08-25-at-3.02.49-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Screen-shot-2012-08-25-at-3.02.49-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Screen-shot-2012-08-25-at-3.02.49-PM-56x56.png 56w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 108px) 100vw, 108px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PSCS5 tip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today I gave a little 30 minutes talk at REI for our local camera club I found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Delta-Digital-Camera-Club\/\">meetup.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post is a recap of my talk for those who would like to try extracting an image with hair using photoshop CS5 and the steps written below. Please let me know if you have any questions about the process or would like me to explain anything further.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rIdXxrokDfg?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Select the <strong>Quick Selection<\/strong> Tool or press <strong>W<\/strong> on your keyboard<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Click and hold on the person that you want to extract, hold the mouse and sweep over all the areas you want. If you go outside the area you want don\u2019t worry about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Hold down the <strong>alt or option<\/strong> key on a Mac and watch your cursor turn to a minus. Then you can deselect the areas you don\u2019t want selected by touching and dragging over\u00a0 them. You are basically telling Photoshop the block range of colors you want by narrowing down the selection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is where the magic happens!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> With the\u00a0quick selection tool selected and the \u201cmarching ants\u201d on your selection you will see the <strong>refine edges<\/strong> button in one of the floating tool boxes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Once clicked you will see a list of of sliders. To see what everything does exaggerate the slide both ways to figure it out and then fine tune the adjustment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> You will also see a drop down menu to show what your selection will look like on various backgrounds such as white, black or transparent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What follows are the selections I like to use.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> Click \u201c<strong>smart radius<\/strong>\u201d and move the slider slightly. This blends the edges with transparent edge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Feather<\/strong> makes the image blur on the edges. This works if you have a shallow depth of field. Slide as you prefer. I don\u2019t touch this much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Contrast<\/strong> make a hard edge. I only touch this slightly as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.<\/strong> Before sliding \u201c<strong>shift edge<\/strong>\u201d however make sure your brush is selected and a brush size large enough to cover part of the hair and the other half of the brush the area outside the hair and brush all around the hair to extract it. Let go and see you\u2019re almost there!<\/p>\n<p><strong>11.<\/strong> Then slide the \u201c<strong>shift edge<\/strong>\u201d slider and see how much it smooths the edges!<\/p>\n<p><strong>12.<\/strong> Lastly click on \u201c<strong>decontaminate colors<\/strong>\u201d and depending on what your object was against it will get rid of the reflected colors in the hair that was in the background before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13.<\/strong> I like to select my output as \u201c<strong>new layer with layer mask<\/strong>\u201d and then when I click ok I can further fine tune my selection in the layer mask!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I gave a little 30 minutes talk at REI for our local camera club I found on meetup.com\u00a0 This post is a recap of my talk for those who would like to try extracting an image with hair using photoshop CS5 and the steps written below. 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