How to Extract Hair with Select and Mask in Photoshop

 

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Greetings, Welcome to GFX Mentor, Aim your  teacher Iran , From today Aim Beginning a bit of Advanced Classes. , I would not say it much advance, but , Since, I have teach ed very easy things in Beginners Classes , Now, a bit of difficult or complicated things are going to start , That's why i am saying it a bit of advance classes , So, I hope you will like this series too , And our To days topics is Select and Mask , So Let's Start , Alright Welcome Back , As you can see that here i have op end an Image of a model , And her hairs are very much detailed and messy , And my plan is to change the background of this image to new one , So first of all let me tell, where you can find select and mask option , you can take any selection tool like Marquee selection or Lasso tool or Quick Selection , When you select any one of these you will find button on the top, Select and Mask , Its not Necessary that you select it first , Yes, one more important thing , This option was named as Refine Edge in Photo shop C'S till Photo shop CC W , and i dint know it has changed from W or W , But yes, Now its Select and Mask and Its exactly the same as Refine Edge , Now Refine edge option contains all same options as Select and mask , But also some new features also has been added to it , Which aim just going to explain you , So. we used to select everything using quick selection tool , now you can directly use this option without making selection , See, I have deselected every thing by using shortcut Ctr+D , And as i go into select and mask option you will get new panel , And it may possible that by default you will get full transparent window , This is transparent because here is the transparency option, , if you lower down the value, The image will be visible , So I will suggest you to adjust this image first on your target background , So press Ctr+C to copy the image... , and press Ctr+V on the new background , So now we have background layer and for ground layer from we will extract the model , We want to remove the background, so that it will shown in the new background , Aim clicking on selection tool and Aim clicking on Select and Mask , You will get the target background image , So now if i lower the transparency to zero , As i set the transparency to zero, you can see the models Image , First of all lets see here, you have view option , here we have Onion Skin, Marching Ants, Overlay, On Black, On White and so on... , lets go for Overlay , As you go to overlay, you will find red color on whole image , This is the opacity of this red color, so let be where it was , If you look at here on tools, we have some options like , quick selection tool,refine edge tool, Brush tool, Lasso, Hand tool and zoom tool , So first aim taking quick selecting tool and keep on clicking to make selection , If you like you can make selection first and the use select and mask , or you can make selection later , well, the way of using quick selection tool is exactly the same.. , ...if you make selection while pressing Alt key, the selection will be subs tract, OK , and without Alt, selection will be add... , Now remember the red portion is inflected.. , And remaining part is Selected, right now... , After making selection you can go either on Onion Skin or on Black and White , So if i go to black and white, it is shown the selected area from white color , At this time, this is very rough selection , So if i go to edge detection option and start to increase the Radius , one more thing i want tell you that we have some check boxes here , so, if your computer supports, you can check on High quality preview , otherwise you can turn it off , for now i keep it on to high quality , sometimes it becomes a bit of heavy, also check on Smart Radius , If i zoom, and increase edge detection, it is showing even more hair details , and you will get the idea, what result we are achieving , Now if i go to onion skin, so you can see whole layer , but now if I increase the transparency, the background is getting transparent , and the selected area is still here, lets increase the value up to W% , if you look at edges, you will see some remaining background area , from tools you have to select Refine Edge Brush tool, Remember it name , and apply this brush on those area where the issue is , I am applying this tool very gently, dint apply it speedily , just apply only on those area where the problem exist , basically this tool in Adding those area into selection which was not in selection , I think this is good , If you look carefully there are some dark colors on the edges , The reason is, in the original image the dark color was present , that's why it is showing darker colors , but dint worry, we will fix this later , but right now, we will focus on the things which are not showing , After doing all these adjustments, , lets move ah ed and right now we dint need these , options like Smoothness, Feather etc... , In Output Settings, Dint Check on Decontaminated Colors , Under Output to, Select New Layer with Layer Mask, and click OK , As you click OK, We have one more new duplicate layer with layer mask , now, we will solve these issues by right clicking on masking thumbnail , Additionally if you press Shift key and click on mask, , the mask gets disable and our full image is still here , By right clicking on this mask and click select and mask one more time , and this time i will click on decontaminate colors , Decontaminate means the mixture and to make it pure called contamination , so this time we will decontaminate the background color , As i click decontaminate colors we have very nice and sharp result , still we have some issues on here, so will will fix it in Third step , I am Clicking OK button , and see we will get one more layer with layer mask , Now the fun part, this is our first layer, with Select and Mask , This is original layer , and we didn't apply decontaminate color before because, if i disable mask of this layer , so photo shop has added some colors by itself to match them with hairs , But you will get better result, if turn the mask on, and we have Nice Result here , the darker color on the hairs of this side ... , With the help of soft brush with low amount of flow , Pick the color of hairs , If you select brush tool and while pressing Alt key you can pick colors , and be careful about that you have selected Image not mask , and while pressing Alt key it will start to pick colors , so i think we should select this yellowish color and start to paint here , Remember aim painting directly on Hairs and it is removing the additional... , color of the hairs, and if i disable layer mask, I have done this , but dint worry, your result is perfect , Other thing is the background is not matched with this image , This is because of the opposite light direction of the background and foreground , so double click on the background so that it converts into layer , Press Ctr+T, right click and select Flip Horizontal , and aim shifting this model's layer on side , Also aim hiding the black portion , So, I believe you understood this topic very clearly , and some more issue is here , so for one more time we will go to select and mask and fix this , i am choosing refine edge brush again, and applying gently here , Now we have one more layer with layer mask, and our work is done perfectly , so i hope this small task, so many peoples find it difficult, is actually easy , hope you liked it, understood it, and if you liked this Video , so hit like button and please subscribe if not subscribed, THANK YOU !!  

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