Sunday, March 16, 2025

Masking Unmanageable Hair



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Creating Photoshop masks for highly detailed objects has always been a challenge.  In the past I had a few techniques that worked pretty well, but if your goal is to add a dark background behind your subject the shortcomings of those techniques start to show.

Very quickly, here are the techniques I've used and their strengths and weaknesses: