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Jennifer M. Combs
 

Seperating flying hair from background?


Anybody know if you can do that in Photoshop Elements3 and if yes how? Thanks!


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December 06, 2005

 

Kerry L. Walker
  I can't help you there but I have perfected the ability to separate my hair from my head! (not that I wanted to though)


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December 06, 2005

 

Jennifer M. Combs
  lol, in real life or photoshop? :)


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December 06, 2005

 

Kerry L. Walker
  Unfortunately, I don't Photoshop.


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December 06, 2005

 

Diane Dupuis
  I've tried many times - it is painstaking work and doesn't always work. Basically you have to choose everything in the background around the hair. If you're really going to do it this way you have to blow up your pic big time and give yourself a whole bunch of time and a bucket of patience...
Jim Zuckerman swears the only way to do it is with a program called Corel Knockout - which I bought (for $30 - not $100) and have had some success with.


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December 06, 2005

 

robert G. Fately
  Jennifer, I don't think there's any way to do this in basic Elements (or Photoshop, for that matter). Ther's a whole category of image editing software for what's called "knocking out", which is separating the subject (head with flying hair) from the background so you can impose said subject on a different background.


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It's not impossible in Elements - just a lot of work... Here are a few examples of what I've done


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