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: Having problems removing background from hair between two people(samples included) I am using Adobe Photoshop CS6 I am having challenges trying to remove a background from an image. I followed

@Kimberly620

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I am using Adobe Photoshop CS6

I am having challenges trying to remove a background from an image. I followed the generally used method of using selections, masks, refine edge, edge detection and so on.

The best tutorial I found on the topic was on YouTube. It is a for Photoshop CC but works well for CS6. Followed it to the book and was impressed by the removal of the background from the hair.

I do have a challenge though on a particular portion of hair, that lies between two subjects. I was able to remove the background around them and to get back the "missing strands" of hair that were initially cut out.

I failed to, however,remove the background between the two subjects.

See images below, from LEFT to RIGHT:


Left: original image
Middle: my final image with a white background
Right: my final image with a black adjustment/colour layer

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@Lee3735518

Another thing you can try is to go into the "channels" pallete and select the blue channel. Since the blue channel is white in the white part and dark in the skin in hair (not a lot of blue there), it can help create your mask.

There's still a lot of manual tweaking involved.

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@Radia289

Go to the rgb list by the layers tab. Play with the blue and other colors until you contrast the dark/light so your hair/girl is darker. Select her, then do the mask. Could do quick selection if you had it really fine and zoomed in, but that would be a pain in the butt and almost too much work.

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