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Hi Lee
Hope you don't mind, but I see you have the edit tick checked so I had a go for you. Shout if you want me to remove it... I made a few errors but if you like it I can have a better go for you.
Enjoy!
Hope you don't mind, but I see you have the edit tick checked so I had a go for you. Shout if you want me to remove it... I made a few errors but if you like it I can have a better go for you.
Enjoy!
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Or try B&W - from musicmans edit
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Lee what you're trying to do here is one of the most difficult editing jobs you can undertake. It's made difficult by all those stray hairs and the fact that the bg colour is constantly changing just where you want to preserve them.
It's definitely do-able, but the editing needs to be done on the full size image preferably in 16 bit and it will still be an extremely tedious job to do it properly. When the image is reduced to web size as here, and is down to 8 bit it's already too pixelated to retain those hairs convincingly.
To make it as easy as possible and to retain at least some of the stray hairs, and to avoid that 'cut out' look, pick a background colour that is already there around where you want to preserve some hair, which is basically what I've done here.
There's no real substitute for taking the shot against a white bg if that's the effect you want and preferably making sure it's evenly lit. Saves a lot of time and frustration in editing.
It's definitely do-able, but the editing needs to be done on the full size image preferably in 16 bit and it will still be an extremely tedious job to do it properly. When the image is reduced to web size as here, and is down to 8 bit it's already too pixelated to retain those hairs convincingly.
To make it as easy as possible and to retain at least some of the stray hairs, and to avoid that 'cut out' look, pick a background colour that is already there around where you want to preserve some hair, which is basically what I've done here.
There's no real substitute for taking the shot against a white bg if that's the effect you want and preferably making sure it's evenly lit. Saves a lot of time and frustration in editing.
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classic ps work there CT, excellent edit. Puts mine to shame:bonk:
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Thanks for taking the time to look at and edit my photo guys much appreciated...CT your right of course about using a white background to start with, was kinda playing about at the time but liked this shot and wondered if I could sort the background out in PS. As you say do able but better and and easier if you can set it up correctly before hand.