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Re: Masking Wispy Hair

Re: Masking Wispy Hair
Fri, 18 May 2007 16:19:05 -050

"Chris Nicola" <chrisnicola@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> I would appreciate some advice on the best way to apply a mask to wispy 
> hair where the background shows through the hair. I have tried using the 
> magic wand color selection tool but it still seems to be a difficult 
> challenge. Is there a better way?

have you tried taking one of the files channels and using it as a mask? Like 
see which one has better contrast R, G, or B... or L - you can take one of 
those, tweak the contrast a bit and then copy it into a clipmask, etc. 


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Masking Wispy Hair
Fri, 18 May 2007 21:47:30 +030
I would appreciate some advice on the best way to apply a mask to wispy hair 
where the background shows through the hair. I have tried using the magic 
wand color selection tool but it still seems to be a difficult challenge. Is 
there a better way?

Kind Regards

Chris 


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Re: Masking Wispy Hair
Sat, 19 May 2007 16:57:38 +030
Thanks for this advice. As I still have a lot to learn  please could you 
briefly advise me how to do this. How would I select a channel and then 
after masking how would I apply the mask of that channel of the hair to the 
whole RGB selcetion of the image?

Kind Regards
Chris


"Hunter Elliott" <nospam@gatewaycity.com> wrote in message 
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> "Chris Nicola" <chrisnicola@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:464ca305_1@cnews...
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>> I would appreciate some advice on the best way to apply a mask to wispy

>> hair where the background shows through the hair. I have tried using
the 
>> magic wand color selection tool but it still seems to be a difficult 
>> challenge. Is there a better way?
>
> have you tried taking one of the files channels and using it as a mask? 
> Like see which one has better contrast R, G, or B... or L - you can take 
> one of those, tweak the contrast a bit and then copy it into a clipmask, 
> etc.


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Re: Masking Wispy Hair
Mon, 21 May 2007 08:53:06 -050

"Chris Nicola" <chrisnicola@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Thanks for this advice. As I still have a lot to learn  please could you 
> briefly advise me how to do this. How would I select a channel and then 
> after masking how would I apply the mask of that channel of the hair to 
> the whole RGB selcetion of the image?
>

you might want to go over to Foster's site (www.unleash.com) - he's got a 
lot of tutorials there. For instance, this one: 
http://www.unleash.com/mikeb/graymask/ 


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Re: Masking Wispy Hair
Thu, 24 May 2007 15:24:24 +040
On Fri, 18 May 2007 22:47:30 +0400, Chris Nicola <chrisnicola@hotmail.com>
 
wrote:

> I would appreciate some advice on the best way to apply a mask to wispy  
> hair
> where the background shows through the hair. I have tried using the magic
> wand color selection tool but it still seems to be a difficult  
> challenge. Is
> there a better way?

Haven't tried its compatibility with PP11, but probably it will work:

http://research.graphicon.ru/image-processing/gml-matting-6.html

It's freeware, so checking it out wouldn't make any harm to you :-)

-- 
Ilya Razmanov
http://photoshop.msk.ru - Photoshop plug-in filters
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