HOW CAN I SELECT FURS?

[mr.glassy]

I want to make a poster with this image and I tried few select tools for selecting the lion But I'm still unsatisfied with the results. as you can see in the other image left side of lion's head is bad and annoying . what do you suggest me to do?
thank you in Advance for any kind of help!

 

[mr.glassy]

here's the poster sorry I forgot to upload it in the post

 

[polarwoc]

This result is obtained by using Select & Mask (also called as Refine Edge in previous versions of PS). I tried Object Selection Tool and Select Subject Tool, but the results were less better and too sharp.

 

[mr.glassy]

This result is obtained by using Select & Mask (also called as Refine Edge in previous versions of PS). I tried Object Selection Tool and Select Subject Tool, but the results were less better and too sharp.
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yeah it is much better than mine. Did you use any modify stuff like feather or smooth or sth?
I used feather for this but it made no difrence to me !

 

[polarwoc]

Did you use any modify stuff like feather or smooth or sth?

For this selection, I set Smooth, Feather and Contrast settings to 0. Most of the fur bit selection was handled by the Refine Edge Brush Tool.

It is indeed a difficult selection owing to the fur and the relatively low contrast where the fur interacts with the background.

One other option is to use hair/fur brushes and create artificial hair while repeatedly sampling colour from the pic at frequent points and try to make it look as realistic as possible.

 

[mr.glassy]

For this selection, I set Smooth, Feather and Contrast settings to 0. Most of the fur bit selection was handled by the Refine Edge Brush Tool.

It is indeed a difficult selection owing to the fur and the relatively low contrast where the fur interacts with the background.

One other option is to use hair/fur brushes and create artificial hair while repeatedly sampling colour from the pic at frequent points and try to make it look as realistic as possible.

thanks a world!

 

[Babine]

Here's another alternative. I used Select/ Subject then, with the selection active, entered Quick Mask Mode. There and using black/white brushes in various opacities (white to remove and black to add) refined the selection for accuracy and saved this selection to an alpha channel. With this channel active, copied the subject to a new layer and placed a white filled BG below. Now additions can be made (missing hairs, etc) with a hair brush or the smudge tool on a new layer to allow for opacity adjustments, separate adjustments i.e. blur, etc.
I then added selective shadows/highlights adjustments and sharpening.