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Extracting Hair in Photoshop with Russell Brown
Adobe's resident digital artist Russell Brown takes you inside Photoshop to learn his favorite techniques. In this session, he explains how to use Photoshop's Extract command to mask hair.
Written by Russell Brown on January 29, 2002
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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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Photoshop 5???
You'd think RB could have updated this ancient PDF. Didn't we bury Photohop 5 almost 2 years ago? Maybe he was too busy thinking up stupid jokes?
Great information
The article was very informative, however I am not able to print it to keep a copy for easy reference.
Great information
The article was very informative, however I am not able to print it to keep a copy for easy reference.
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I would love to read the article but it does not load.
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Extracting Hair in Photoshop with Russell Brown
Russell Brown did a great job introducing this feature... I wish he included more details.
Please try again
If the PDF file didn't load, please download the Acrobat Viewer and try agin. We did test this article on both PCs and Macs with both browsers (and several versions of those browsers) so it does work.
Thanks,
Pamela Pfiffner, editor in chief