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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
Average: 3.5 (23 votes)
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Categories: Graphics, Graphics Image Editing, Photo Image Editing, Features

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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.

To get started, open the PDF file.

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1

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?

Submitted by dave666 on Tue, 02/05/2002 - 10:53.
2

Great information

The article was very informative, however I am not able to print it to keep a copy for easy reference.

Submitted by brendaleak on Sun, 07/07/2002 - 11:32.
3

Great information

The article was very informative, however I am not able to print it to keep a copy for easy reference.

Submitted by brendaleak on Sun, 07/07/2002 - 11:33.
4

The page does not load

I would love to read the article but it does not load.
Thanks

Submitted by nashvillephoto on Wed, 01/30/2002 - 05:12.
5

Extracting Hair in Photoshop with Russell Brown

Russell Brown did a great job introducing this feature... I wish he included more details.

Submitted by Rod Karmenzind on Wed, 01/30/2002 - 06:10.
6

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

Submitted by PamelaPfiffner99 on Wed, 01/30/2002 - 06:42.
7

Hair extraction

Thank you, this was a lifesaver.

Submitted by Guest on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 15:11.
8

Bust

The very first instruction says go into Image and select Extract. There is no Extract under Image in Photoshop. This tutorial was a failure from the get-go.

Submitted by Guest on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 07:35.
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Re "Bust"

Check the publication date on this article: 2002. The instructions were correct for the version of Photoshop that was current in 2002.

For a Photoshop CS5 tutorial on masking hair, see http://www.creativepro.com/article/mask-flyaway-hair-moments-using-photoshop

Terri Stone
Editor in Chief, CreativePro.com

Submitted by Editor in Chief on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 09:00.

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