If I get time I will try to follow your design. You’re background remove system /style is very much conducive for me. This is the first time I have seen the different things in your design. You are very handsome, you have completed this design smarty. It all depends on what type of background I’m dealing with and how much detail I need to get from the subject’s hair. I tend to use a number of techniques along side of PS’s tools like channel duplication and manipulation, pen selection, edge refinement.

You could try using the quick mask tool and making a rough outline for a mask, then refining the mask. Richard, with complex backgrounds, you probably will need to spend some time zooming and using the regular eraser tool.

…I’ll give it a go but it seems as though most tutorials out there have plain backgrounds! Do you have any tutorials with complex backgrounds? white) to the new layer underneath the photo layer, allowing this to work as a background behind the newly cut out photo. Once you have cut out the hair/photo on to a transparent background, you can also add a New Layer underneath this layer in the Layers Palette. Using the Fill Tool, you can add the selected Foreground Colour (eg. Take care when cutting out the photo manually, and zoom in/out where necessary using the Zoom Tool.ĩ. If the Background Eraser Tool cannot effectively remove the background in certain parts of the photo, simply switch to the normal Eraser Tool, set a suitable Brush Size and Hardness (between 50-100%), and remove the background manually. Any other parts of the photo that may have been accidentally removed, can be reversed by going to Edit > Undo. If the settings are correct, only the background will be removed, leaving the hair cut out on a transparent background.Ĩ. Once your settings are correct, Left-click on the background and continue to Drag over the image. This step increases the likelihood that the Background Eraser Tool will only cut out the hair, and not remove other parts of the photo accidentally.ħ. This will protect any hair (and similar shades) that matches the foreground colour. Next, with the Background Eraser Tool selected, select Protect Foreground Colour in the box at the top of the screen. Using the Eyedropper Tool, you can also Left-click on part of the hair to sample this colour. For this tutorial, the Tolerance was set to 30.Ħ. If the Tolerance is set too low, not enough of the background will be removed, and if set too high, the Background Eraser Tool will remove other parts of the photo as well as the hair. Setting the Tolerance level will require a bit of trial and error, depending on the complexity of the hair in your photo. Set the Sampling method to Sample Once, and set the Limits to Discontiguous.ĥ. Along the top of the screen there are several other options for the Background Eraser Tool.

Select the Background Eraser Tool, and select a circular shaped brush at 100px in size.

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