![]() ![]() Ģ- Duplicate your layer by pressing the Duplicate icon down on the layer palette.ģ- Go to the top bar and slide the Colors options, and select Curves.Ĥ- Make sure your Channel is on Value, your Curve type is Smooth, and your Preview box is checked.ĥ- Now, start moving the curve line to contrast the main subject color to the background color.Ħ- Now, go to Colors on the top bar again and select Desaturate to turn your image into black & white.ħ- From the three options you have (Brightness, Luminosity, and Average) choose the one that provides you with the best separation in whiteness between the main subject and the background (the background must be whiter than the main subject).Ĩ- Go to Color again and select Invert to select your background.ĩ- Select the Paint Brush tool, make sure your foreground color is black, and start painting on the remained white areas of the background until you cover it all in black to include it into the mask. Right-click it and select Add Alpha Channel. If it drives out of the road in a low contrast zone one can undo the last segment and click manually the right route.1- Open your Image and go to the main image layer. The Scissors can be substantially faster than drawing a path if there's a visible edge that can be followed. ![]() Actually it makes directly the selection. The easiest idea is to extend the hairs with the smudge tool.Īutomatic edge tracing would be fine when one draws a path only approximately right. Making it look plausible needs plenty of practicing. But getting it right indoors doesn't happen without perfectly set lights and background.įurry, fluffy or bushy edge clipped with far too simple path can be often fixed by redrawing it. Numerous photos for successful background removal have been shot on the beach. High cost studio gear (except a good camera) is not a must. But 99,9% of the job was done in the photo shooting session. You can find easily tens of examples where one removes the background of hair with easy looking few clicks. The lights and background must be specially selected to make on color and contrast based background removal possible. Those cases need preparations before taking the photo. In difficult cases (fluffy, furry, bushy) drawing path will not give good results, because nobody has enough time and patience for the job. The hair and beard have easy edges, but the path may still need 100 nodes or even more: Keep the original image layer until you are sure it's not needed. Copy and paste the object to a new layer. It hangs around if you save the file as XCF.Ĭonvert the path to selection (=add to selection). When the path is ready it should be saved - one can find a way to use it or something can be noticed later. In addition the path can be edited afterwards. Fortunately an error during the drawing can be undone by pressing Ctrl+Z. Drawing them fast needs plenty of practicing. A waterproof 100% manual method for images with edges this simple is to draw a path around the object:Īs you see the path has also curved segments. The edge can be seen by humans and also by advanced semiautomatic selection methods. But it doesn't have fuzzy edges such as big bushy hair or beard where the background can partially be seen through. I guess you selected intentionally a photo where the magic wand and other on color and contrast based selection methods fail.
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