Through a special arrangement with Adobe, creativepro.com is posting nifty Photoshop tips and techniques by Russell Brown, Adobe's digital imaging guru and Photoshop maestro. As one of the original contributors to Photoshop, Russell knows the program inside and out. Don't know who Russell is? Find out!

Anyone who's ever done masking in Photoshop knows how frustrating it is to work on image with hair. In this PDF tutorial, "Extracting Hair," Russell shows you how to isolate wispy tendrils of hair with ease, using Photoshop's Extract command. It's better than giving your image subjects a buzz cut.

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