: Photoshop - Knock out hair from busy background I've tried going through a variety of tutorials, and have seen a variety of techniques for knocking out people from backgrounds in Photoshop...but

@Yeniel278

Knocking out a very busy background is tricky, any of the built in tools probably can't do the job.

In these situations I usually clip as close as possible with the pen tool on a new layer. Then use a very very thin brush on a new layer behind the clipped image to draw in the tiny hairs that you can't get in the selection. A 1-2px brush with a fade control in the shape dynamics works well. I usually set it to 2 steps and a minimum diameter of about 20%.

You're essentially drawing it in one hair at a time so I recommend a Wacom/pen tablet of some sort.

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