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Thanks Alan,

I wish there was some magical technique to make masking easier. In my mind there are two steps to masking. One is creating the mask, and the other is blending your subject into the new background. The first one is done with practice, the second can be accomplished in a variety of ways.

If you want to come to grips with making masks there are two resources I would recommend. The first is Katrin Eismann's book on masking:

http://www.amazon.com/Photoshop-Masking-Compositing-VOICES-Eismann/dp/0735712794/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228431574&sr=8-2

The second is Lynda.com. Specifically, the Channels & Masks courses by Deke McClelland.

Here is the mask I created for her. If you download it and use it you will see there is a fair amount of white fringing. To take care of this I use a match color technique. You can download the PDF I made here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ywtpjzjjxbo


Alani said:
Hay Sam, you do fantastic and not so easy masks, how about a
tutorial! Will send you beer ;)

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Once you make a selection of the background, use it to make a mask for the background layer. You will notice that the hair strands are too light in the transition areas. One of several ways to improve this is to change the layer mode to Multiply for the new background layer. Then paint white on the mask over the hair. This will turn the hair too dark. When you are satisfied with your mask, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N to merge all visible layers to a new layer. Then you can use curves to selectively brighten the hair to it's original luminosity.

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I cannot compete with the D3, nor with all you experts.
But I can try something different, hoping someone, somewhere will like it... :)



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Here's an interpertation:



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I've started out doing elaborate color corrections but ended up doing a BW high key conversion. Does it make sense though, to do colorcorrections before converting to bw?


vitalsax said:
That's a d3x iso 100 sample from photography blog by mark



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Simple contrast adjustments and a bit of "enhancement" to make her more appealing to me. Added a biy of lippy and so on too. Reet tasty.

 
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