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BarryKiddPhotography — Masking for Photoshop Part IX
Published: 2005-05-09 14:19:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 19190; Favourites: 189; Downloads: 6872
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In this ninth video in the masking series we will discuss, in the simplest terms, just one of the many different ways to achieve a near perfect and professional quality mask of human hair in Adobe Photoshop through use of the calculations command.Though the subject image is simple due to the near white background these same basic principles can work just as affectively even if there is a more complex background.
Well technology has come long way in the 3 years since I have posted this. I have been able to reduce the file size of this video from 56 MB all the way down to a mere 17MB!
I hope this will allow those of you unable to watch it before to view it now.
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Thank You for the time you spent to make these video's Lucky they are very easy for me to understand as I have alot to learn with this program.
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What are we doing in case the hair is light(blonde for instance)?I tried with the calculations,but the result was extracting the hair aswell
Thanx in advance,
Annie.
p.s Your tutorial was helpful for some of my manipulations
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Superlateresponsetimeyayayayayayayyy~~~!)
LMFAO noo don't stop rambling! O----o I really liked you talking.. I didn't feel bored watching and listening at the same time OxO Does that make sense? omg your tutorial made me so much more edumacated >.>
And I like your accent 8D
You laugh made me laugh. Very lively.. (Now I'm rambling xD)
Sorry. dude.. no I can do manipulations slightly better 8D
I'm supposing you don't have a tut. on how to easily get rid of backgrounds with like.. stuff behind the stock do you? Like.. trees and extra people and all that good stuff O---o
Thank you! I had a fun 27 minutes
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Wow, this is AMAZING! Thanks so much~ It helped a bunch and some parts were really amusing! I'll definitely put my newfound knowledge to use lol.
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this video is really good!!! I think this is actually the best tutorial on masking that I could ever understand. It's really clear and easy to follow. I always get really confused with layers, but this really helped a lot. And BTW. I really love your commentary, or what you call 'rambling'.kkkk
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this was great...and i found ur rambling very refreshing 
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Thanks for helping! 
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ty soooo muchhhh.. i learned a lot!!!!!!... great .....
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This is the most informative vid I've seen since I first started using Photoshop. I never even knew you could use shift+[ to change the hardness.... MAN, what a time saver that alone will be. And the idea to get rid of the fringe was pure genius! *smacks forehead*
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This is a great tutorial! Your voice cuts out during the match color step though
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I don't know why but there has been trouble with Flash files and DA for years. I'm sorry and I will see if I can fix the problem. Either way it most likely saved you a great day if needles yapping. The who movie from start to finish is almost an hour.
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hello and really thank you for this diamond! If you have the full version working with sound, please upload it into another service so we can check it.
it really stops when the magic begins
Again thank you , this is really rare to find
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It's been some time since you left this message but I have re-rendered the original movie and uploaded it again.
You should be able to hear all the sound now.
Sorry that the file was broken when you first tried to view it.
Barry
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yes, it now works
thank you for this technique although I still have one question. Some of the hair still end with white fringe and are not that smooth as the rest of it.
Is there a way to fix this or should I just burn them and then apply minor blur on them?
cheers.
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Perhaps contracting just a bit tighter then burning with a brush in overlay will do it.
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This is amazing! It works great! I never knew there was such a use for the calculations!
Sadly, the sound tunes out half way through the match color part, so I never got to hear beyond that...
Great job! Keep up the good work! ^_^
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you put a lot of time and dedication into this. thank you so very much! i have used the masking technique to remove an image from it's background before, but never to this level. i think this will help me a lot!!!
thanks again!
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oh yeah, and i'll send you a link when i use this technique.
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woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow prooooooooooooooooooooooooo = professional nice tutorials but i cant understand but i will try it one but is very harder to understand and the sound gone adding
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yeah i have problem with sound too :< i watch video two time and it's allways stops when you use match color :< gosh i soo want to know how to use it >_<
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Your tutorials are GREAT!
But at some point the sound stopped, and without your guiding voice i couldn't seem to understand the rest.
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For some reason, the sound went out at the point when you were doing the color match--so I couldn't quite follow how you fixed the hazing problem. I was loving the tutorial until then! Could you note me if the sound gets fixed?
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I'll look into it and re render it if need be.
Barry
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WOW! This beats all the tutorials I have tried so far! Many Thanks!
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bloody good tutorial what
thanks for making such a great tute
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Really good tutorial. Photoshop is a RAM hungry booger lol
Good job
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thanks man this is a great tutorial it helped alot, i've had many ps classes at school but
this is the best way i'v seen to take out a background and still have great detail. good job
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Use WINK to do the next video. I think you will like.
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def as close to perfect a tutorial as possible
only thing i'm missing is the fastforward button
that u can use on quicktime and the person talking
sounds like the chipmunks
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For some reason the video runs perfectly fine until 'section c' where it keeps on cutting and having to load every few seconds so I was unable to watch that part.
So far it was really good though. I love all of your video tuts. hehe.
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pastly i was doing this with aerograph+mask but now....
tx so much dude
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aerograph+mask? I'm not familiar with it. It is a program - a technique? I think I am off to search the web and see what I can find.
Thanks for the comment,
Barry
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i make a selection around the wanted part of the original picture, like you, then create a mask layer (after an inverse selection of course)
after making this hard transition i make the transparent transition by drawing the border of my picture (in mask mode) with aerograph and tablet for having a nice progressive transparent... (the same as making compact selection + feather)
then the mask has a soft variable transition between image and the mask layer
so, you could play with the "flow" option of aerograph to fit the perfect need for the different parts of the picture
anyway your technic is much more helpfull for my need as i'm not a good drawer ;D
my english sucks a bit sorry
flo
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o man! are you a magician or something?! you're so great.
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Nope not a magician. Just a dude with too much time on his hands it seems.
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Hmmmm ... Photoshop TV. I love it!!
Keep on doing this wonderful tutorials.
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*continues to wait patiently for that CD in the mail*
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really awsome tutorial! i'm duly impressed.
I usually never look at video-tuts (file size), but i watched this one with my mouth gaping open
thank you so much for taking the time to explain things so detailed and giving so much background info. this will help me tons, i'm sure!
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Yep I know. Videos can be a drain some times. Especially long drug out movies like these.
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