: How to blend in a portrait with lots of loose hair on a dark background? I have an image of a child I isolated. When I choose a dark or non-bright background for her picture, her hair is

@Nimeshi706

Here are four methods which I use when using photoshop.


Defringe


Layer > Matting > Defringe

Set the pixel to 1 to start, you may need to increase this.


Feather


Select > modify > contract

try to contract the selection by 1 or 2 pixels to begin with


Eraser tool


use a very soft brush for the eraser tool and lower the opacity. Lightly brush the edges of the image with the brush, this will lower the opacity of the white pixels and the edges will start to blend.


Refine Edges


Select > refine edge

Play around with this will tool to find what works for you.

I hope these help, I am sure there are plenty of other ways to do this, these are some I have used.

Regards,

Neil

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@Nimeshi706

Create a copy of your 'cut out' layer and set the blending mode of that copy layer to DARKEN rather than NORMAL (sometimes MULTIPLY, COLOUR BURN or a different blending mode will work better than darken, depends on the background). This should sit behind the original cut out which should still be set to NORMAL.

You then need to mask the two layers so that the DARKEN layer is only used for the wispy bits of hair and the layer that is set to NORMAL does everything else. You could just erase the wispy bits from the NORMAL layer, but I would recommend using layer masks as it is reversible / non destructive.

Hope that helps.

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