What do you think is the best way to select part of a photo for pasting into another shot or so that you can add in an background without getting the obvious sharply cut edge or the halo effect. I am having trouble doing this and it still looking natural. Example is my 'Hair" submission.
There's probably an easy way, but I always end up cloning as small as a single pixel to fix haloing.
I find that running the blur tool on a small, fairly weak setting around the "seam" seems to help it look more natural.
Thankyou. I am not necessarily looking for an easy way as I am happy to spend time doing it but if I do I want it to look good. So I am looking for the best way/s.
OK. Still getting used to the fact that 1/2 the world is probably asleep, and this 1/2 is still working. I have a week or so at home and am checking in every now and then as normally I wouldn't be able to look until 6pm tonight which is another 1 1/2 hours away
There are plenty of books on masking and compositing (one with that very name, by Katrin Eismann), and I would strongly suggest picking one up. The information you'll learn not just about making selections, but about colours and channels, is well worth the $30-$40 price tag.
For something like that you could probably create a quick mask using the magic lasso set at a Tolerance of around 32. For more tricky hair masking switch over the your channel's palette and choose one of the channels that offers the strongest contrast between the hair and the background and then use the magic lasso. Photoshop's extract filter also provides good results but I typically have to fix ithe mask up a little afterwards using a soft brush.
There are plenty of books on masking and compositing (one with that very name, by Katrin Eismann), and I would strongly suggest picking one up. The information you'll learn not just about making selections, but about colours and channels, is well worth the $30-$40 price tag.
For something like that you could probably create a quick mask using the magic lasso set at a Tolerance of around 32. For more tricky hair masking switch over the your channel's palette and choose one of the channels that offers the strongest contrast between the hair and the background and then use the magic lasso. Photoshop's extract filter also provides good results but I typically have to fix ithe mask up a little afterwards using a soft brush.
Thankyou this is the sort of advice I have been hoping to get. I will play later with this info.
Thanks to everyone. And feel free to keep it coming.
There are plenty of books on masking and compositing (one with that very name, by Katrin Eismann), and I would strongly suggest picking one up. The information you'll learn not just about making selections, but about colours and channels, is well worth the $30-$40 price tag.
