work & fun -- extracting hair

[ibclare]

I'm trying channels for hair extraction. This is one of those tutorials where I find I'm missing something, because even though I follow the steps, my results are not quite . . . Other tutorials to try next. Anyway, I had fun overall. Just not the result I want. Learning . . . frustrating, rewarding, whatever

[Paul]

Nice concept Clare, this is a good tut for what your doing Select Hair by Using Channels | Tools Tutorials | Planet Photoshop

[$1r_M4x1mu$]

Nice job clare

You just have achieved one of the most difficult tasks on Photoshop, which is selecting or isolating hair.

Congrats.

Please keep it up

[fenix]

Really nice job there Clare! As previously said, that probably is one of the most tricky things to get right.

[ibclare]

Thank you fenix, SirM, Belial. I appreciate your comments. I still have a ways to go to get it better. If her hair were black in this image, the not-so-good parts would show up better. But I will get it down!

[Stric9]

would you post the original image?

[ibclare]

I imagine you mean of the model. Now I'm not sure if my ego can stand you doing this way better and posting it . . . on "my" thread (as if I had any claim to it).

[ibclare]

OK then:

[Stric9]

No I think you did good....on hair you never know unless you see the original ya know. And selecting hair is no easy task by any strech of the imagination even on a white background it is still challenging.

[Vafann]

I think you have done a really good job with the hair, I don´t see how you could have made it much better. I can see that there are some very thin strands that you didn´t get into it, but who cares? lol! Really, I think you did a really good job at that, I haven´t tried using channels to extract things yet, you have inspired me to try.