Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Deleting background from woman with curly hair

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Deleting background from woman with curly hair

audreyen

2005-06-19, 11:15 pm

Hi all, I'm really counting on some help here as I'm almost pulling my
hair out! (What little I have!)

I have an image of a woman with curly hair on a white background. I
need to delete the white background as best as I can. I'd like to keep
the background transparent.

What I did first was to follow steps to create a mask using the
tutorial on the following webpage
http://mouseprints.net/old/dpr/ReplaceBG.html

But now I can't seem to delete the white background from the original
image...

HELP! :(

Thanks for anyone's kind response... audreyen

Øyvind Ødegård

2005-06-20, 4:14 am

"audreyen" <audreyen@XXXXXXXXXX> skrev i melding
news:1119234820.101823.291340@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all, I'm really counting on some help here as I'm almost pulling my
> hair out! (What little I have!)
>
> I have an image of a woman with curly hair on a white background. I
> need to delete the white background as best as I can. I'd like to keep
> the background transparent.
>
> What I did first was to follow steps to create a mask using the
> tutorial on the following webpage
> http://mouseprints.net/old/dpr/ReplaceBG.html
>
> But now I can't seem to delete the white background from the original
> image...
>
> HELP! :(
>
> Thanks for anyone's kind response... audreyen
>

Try this: http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutori...tout/cutout.htm

O.Odegaard - Norway

Peter Wollenberg

2005-06-20, 4:14 am

"audreyen" <audreyen@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:

>Hi all, I'm really counting on some help here as I'm almost pulling my
>hair out! (What little I have)
>
>I have an image of a woman with curly hair on a white background. I
>need to delete the white background as best as I can. I'd like to keep
>the background transparent.
>
>What I did first was to follow steps to create a mask using the
>tutorial on the following webpage
>http://mouseprints.net/old/dpr/ReplaceBG.html
>
>But now I can't seem to delete the white background from the original
>image...
>
I assume that you try to make the background layer transparent. that
doesn't work. Double click on the background layer and accept the new
name (Layer 0). Now you can delete the white bg.

Peter

John McWilliams

2005-06-20, 7:16 pm

audreyen wrote:
> Hi all, I'm really counting on some help here as I'm almost pulling my
> hair out! (What little I have!)
>
> I have an image of a woman with curly hair on a white background. I
> need to delete the white background as best as I can. I'd like to keep
> the background transparent.
>
> What I did first was to follow steps to create a mask using the
> tutorial on the following webpage
> http://mouseprints.net/old/dpr/ReplaceBG.html
>
> But now I can't seem to delete the white background from the original
> image...
>
> HELP! :(
>
> Thanks for anyone's kind response... audreyen
>
The link above is absurdly difficult, when it's very simple to use
Select-> Color Range. The background is easily selectable with the 6 meg
file at top of his page. Then hit Q to bring up quickmask, and paint in
the teeth and eyes. Exit quickmask, and hit Command-J. Now you have that
selection on its own layer, transparent background.....

Actually, maybe your version doesn't have that selection method. It's in
PS Cs, not sure when it was introduced....

--
John McWilliams

Craig Flory

2005-06-21, 7:15 pm

One way I do it is to first make a duplicate image. Then I click the white
background with the magic wand tool. I then click the delete key on my
keyboard. Now if I have any areas on the subject missing any white I drag
the dupe on top and add a Layer Mask in hide all. I then paint back in the
white that was missing. This works well if all the white is originally
selected.
Craig Flory

audreyen

2005-06-24, 4:14 am

Hmmm... thanks.

What i ended up doing because this lady's curly hair was not responding
well to everything I found online and mentioned here was to usher in a
white background for my client's artwork!

Thanks for everyone's input!! -audreyen

KatWoman

2005-06-24, 7:15 pm

"audreyen" <audreyen@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message
news:1119589462.877098.22790@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hmmm... thanks.
>
> What i ended up doing because this lady's curly hair was not responding
> well to everything I found online and mentioned here was to usher in a
> white background for my client's artwork!
>
> Thanks for everyone's input!! -audreyen
>
what?
do you mean you decided it does not need to be cut out now?
solution:if you can go through it go around it?
When my clients want things that are difficult I say I can do it but it's
going to cost a lot more. That discourages most weird/difficult/tacky
requests.