Photoshop Challenge Week #10

[Stric9]

Hey everybody give a round of applause to Paul for week 9 challenge.

Thanks Paul for asking me to do challenge number 10.

This week may seem like kind of a drag to some but I enjoy working with channels and channel based selections. So this week we have HAIR SELECTIONS.

For Hair Selections you can see this thread from earlier this week where I did a tut to select hair. http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum...background-these-two-images-2.html#post113532

Its post number 12 in that thread.

There are also various tutorials to follow on youtube for hair selection.

Here is a compilation picture I have done recently.



Good Luck and Have Fun!!!!

 

[Sierraccr]

Cutting hair....

You really do like to torture us, don't you!! :lol::lol::lol:

 

[Vafann]

This might seem like kind of a drag, but it´s something really really useful to learn.

 

[Paul]

Hair is probably the hardest of all photoshop 'asks', this will be a hard but well worth while challenge.

 

[Zeealex]

does fur count as hair?

 

[Paul]

Yes it does mate.

 

[Stric9]

Cutting hair....

You really do like to torture us, don't you!! :lol::lol::lol:

Well, it is supposed to be a challenge. and Paul did mention a little something about waterboarding. (sorry bad joke)

 

[SeniorS]

It is a good challange.

I'm in but as usually for me it'll take several days before my inspiration and imagination wakes up

 

[Zeealex]

listen to some really inspiring music senior, that always works

 

[Zeealex]

i had a quick go with a tiger.
Original:

cut:

this was my first try cutting out hairy beasts in such a way, so do excuse me if i have missed parts or it doesn't look right.

 

[Sierraccr]

I think it's an excellent challenge. It's something we've all seen done badly many times - and most of us have mucked it up ourselves.

*off to find inspiration*

 

[Stric9]

Nicely done Zeealex

 

[Zeealex]

merci beaucoup

 

[Stric9]

Here is one more that I have done recently just for fun. Needs a drop shadow but hey who is perfect.



This literly took just a couple of minutes.

 

[ibclare]

Very nice examples Stric9. Like I said in another thread, you're my hero! Don't get too big a head though, you're not my only her, LOL. I like this challenge. I'm glad I recently tried the channels method I found. Now I'll look for some others, including yours. Thanks a bunch. It is useful and makes a big difference in this kind of extraction looking awful and amateurish vs. pretty cool and guru-ish!

 

[Stric9]

Like I said in another thread, you're my hero! Don't get too big a head though, you're not my only her, LOL.

:redface:Careful Clare, your fiance' may be watchin.:redface:

 

[ibclare]

:redface:Careful Clare, your fiance' may be watchin.:redface:

Exactly! Well, he just left for work. Another one of those 12 hour+ shifts he's been doing. So ... while the cat's away ...

 

[Stric9]

This what you had in mind?

 

[Sierraccr]

I seem to be in a watery stage lately, so mermaids came to mind.

Original:





And what I did with it:

 

[colleague]

wow sierraccr that's a beautifull mermaid

this is extracted from a wallpaper but channels is difficult sometimes
I tried to copy parts of the hair on a new layer with modus darker