Thank you for the explanation of "refine hair" and pointing out the slider at the bottom. I have been waiting for a tutorial on refine hair and so far yours is the first one I have found.
Thank you for this, I needed a quick refresher and that’s just what you gave me. Sorry for all of the commenters who claim to know better but are, for whatever reason, wasting their time looking for reasons to naysay your content. Or won’t take the time to see that you have way more advanced content as well. I just can’t with them.
Hello again and thank you for this tutorial. When you say "new", I am not sure what you mean. These features have been in the S/M section for a while...a few month anyway, for the amount slider and I think slightly longer for the 'refine hair' button. They ARE very useful though, having said all that!:)
@@photoshopcafe Decontaminate sliders been there for a fairly long time. Adobe techs are trying to tweak how select and mask works. Actually I don't like select and mask but prefer to use channels to get a much cleaner selection.
Great! Another tool capable of selecting hair from a highly contrasted, solid background-the condition under which ALL tools work splendidly including ancient CHOPS
I've been using "W" to bring up Select subject & select & Mask . Does that not work as well? It gets me to the same initial starting point. I didn't know the layer mask could be refined. I'll have to look for that.
Hello Colin great tutorial on refine hair however I dont seem to be able to turn on decontaminate colors. How can I do this please help I am not sure how to is it in the Photoshop Preferences.
Thanks Colin, I believe David is correct in his comment below, but another useful tutorial, many thanks! Sorry to turn in to a parrot but any thoughts on the A1 yet? Cannot make my mind up but am concerned about the "blackout" issue with the sensor next to the eye piece. Quite a lot of money to spend for an issue like that? Thanks once again Colin.
Colin, love these extra tips to cut out hair. Thank you so much! I'm just wondering what are the brush settings that you use for the hardness and spacing in the Refine Edge Brush Tool? It's not like I can reset the tool or can I?
@@photoshopcafe Thanks for responding. I was referring to the Hardness and Spacing of the Refine Edge Brush Tool. I can't find any reference to this anywhere online so I thought I'd ask you.
I know you've done a few tutorials on blending 2 images before but is match color the perfect tool if I have a subject that I've green screened and want to put that subject in a landscape or urban scene so that the result looks real? Your tutorials, for me anyway, are so helpful and save me a lot of time. Please don't stop.
Can you explain or make a video if it is possible to create a non-destructive blur that I can change easily afterwards like adding a smartfilter that doesn't need 'OK' to press and can change any time. Only in a smart object?
You could try, but I have found it doesn’t work well with animals, because the AI only applies it to the head. Running the refine brush around the edges produces exactly the same result.
But this is with a nice white background. 😁 I was forced to work with a few LED bulbs and the background is dark blue lol. I wonder if this works better than how I cut it out. Its mixed into the subject
I have other tutorials with difficult backgrounds on this Channel, they aren’t hard, but they make for a longer tutorial. I wanted to make this one a very short simple one.
@@TarunLakhera True true :P the transceivers I bought second hand have arrived today already! They have two settings and seem to be only working on S2 for now so I hope that will work and I can make the background white.
@@photoshopcafe Hi, Colin. My photo is probably too bad for it, but I have the transceivers now and see if I can make them soft enough to work with 15Watt LED or just go all in with 2 flashguns. I just hope I can recreate that pose on my models. Right now I'm just selecting piece by piece and go with the color picker until either too much is gone or just too little, lol. And she has a tule dress with hundreds of holes!
Great job, but I can't replicate it. I never did. It only works on perfect backgrounds like the one in the example photo which is in gray color. Either way was worth this presentation. Thank you!
The thing about this technique is that it requires a fairly plain background. I am anxious, among the experts that I follow, to see a technique that works against a complex background.
I have lots of tuts with complex backgrounds (have a look here on my channel), I make both basic and advanced tut, this is one of the basic ones, so people can focus on the tools they need to use.
@@photoshopcafe Win10, I have the full Master Collection, sold to me by Adobe one week before CC was announced, so call me bitter, but not upgrading anytime soon LOL
Nice click bait there. Fooled me. Hehehe. In all seriousness, while its an improvement and can help to speed up the process, its far from foolproof. Try light hair or light background or situation where hair has light on one side of the strands and dark on the other and backdrop is complex multitude of colors and tones. Or noise image or any number of situation. Demos always work because they are designed to present ideal conditions. Still, its a step in a good direction but it will be a while before the tools can be properly trained and can actually make proper decisions on their own. Currently AI driven software is like a baby you train on particular things. And if you give it something it has not seen before, it gets confused. Its not smart, its just trained to do pattern recognition faster than manually doing it. And depending on the patterns it was train it, it can be serious hit or miss.
I also have more advanced ones ones on very difficult images on this channel. On those people complain that the vids are too long, on the short ones, they say it's too easy. Welcome to UA-cam :)
@@photoshopcafe With all do respect, you have been on UA-cam long enough to know that people don't mind lenght or difficulty of the video, they mind the grandiose , attention seeking headlines that misrepresent the content of the video itself. "Futuristic tool instantly cuts out hair in photoshop + cleans the edges" sounds like infallible magic like tool. In point of fact it is not. It works some of the time. If you named the video in a way that reflect the topic and tool more accurately, it would be hard to complain. But click baits, devalue credibility of the UA-camr. I've seen your work many many years ago, you are not new to the game, so why fall down the level of click baits? I don't get it. Don't you have higher standards?
@@KrunoslavStifter 2 words: UA-cam Algorithm. If you look at my videos, you will see I'm not in the habit of sensational headlines. Also if you see there are almost 700 likes and only 11 dislikes, not everyone is feeling the same way you are. You are under the impression that you can do a plain simple headline and because it's quality, it will be watched? Not anymore sadly. I put a lot of work into my content and I want it to be watched. I don't hype up my content or mislead people. These tools are based on Adobe Sensei which is AI. Thats not futuristic?
@@photoshopcafe UA-cam algorithm is a fair point, although many UA-cam have run with it, so I would argue its a combine effort to arrive at the present state of UA-cam. I suppose at that point it becomes a personal choice. Does one rely on UA-cam algorithm for revenue or does not produce work for believing in integrity of it. I can see case being made for both approaches and fair amount of compromise in-between. "I don't hype up my content or mislead people." If that is what you say. To me it does not seem like it. I don't know your real intentions behind the tile of the video, as far as I know you may indeed have no desire to mislead people, I cannot comment in your intentions with certainty. But what I can comment on with fair amount of certainty is that fact that title does not match the capabilities of the tool unless presented in a controlled demo example. You say you put a lot of work in your content. That may be so, but considering the hype of the title, I would argue that you could either try to live up to the claims in the tile, by putting the tool trough its paces, or choose another tile that reflects the fairly basic video that feels pretty mundane its presentation. That being said, I understand if you want to appeal to the wider audience and want your videos to be watched by large audiences. I also understand your methods of trying to achieve, it, however on the moral grounds I cannot agree with the methods. This is probably where you and I differ. I put a lot of effort in my videos as well, but I don't use titles that I think will draw attention, I use descriptive tiles that try to honor the content of the video. I get to keep my integrity at the expense of small view count. You get to play by UA-cam rules as you claims and get rewarded by higher view count. I suppose we all have to chose our priorities. Fair enough? P.S. I think UA-cam was far better in the quality of content when professional UA-camr was not a career choice but accident. Once it became a career for people, by and large quality went down because everyone is computing for view counts , subscribers, likes and to appease the almighty algorithm and whims of Susan. But it is what it is. I've been around since about the time you started on UA-cam and on the forums so I've seen your work many moons ago. If you don't mind, I feel that probably you have reached a point where you got too comfortable or not ambitious enough, but I feel your work has not improved very much for several years. If this exchange ends up doing anything I hope it makes you curious for new things and your add more your teaching and editing. Comfort zone is a comfortable place, but not much grows there. Anyway, all that being said., I wish you success with your channel and I hope you take something of the things I mentioned under consideration. Cheers!
@@KrunoslavStifter thanks for your opinions. As I said, I make different types of videos to widen my audience, I don’t make my living from UA-cam. As fir my work not progressing, that’s a snap judgment. I’ve recently had my work featured in New York Times and my drone photography awarded from Time Magazine. I didn’t even do photography back in the forum days. Lol but it’s all good.
As in the last year, to me thats new (The refine hair and slider on the decontaminate), I've been using Photoshop 25 years. These will also be new to a lot of other people.
@@photoshopcafe Ok. When it comes to getting the hair perfect, you'll always have to do things manually. They will never make that refine perfect. But it's gotten way better over the years. I always end up switching the brush to overlay and painting with black to remove the white.
Dear Colin, where are the knowledgeable people like you like Jesus, you are able professionally to manage a tutorial, we need more like you, not the HINDU, PEOPLE STEALING OTHERS TUTORIAL, they can not speak English but make nasty tutorials, everywhere I looking for a nice professional tutorial facing with those people. UTUBE NEEDS MORE AND MORE PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND JESUS. IM APPRECIATE OF YOU YOUR GRATEFUL TUTORIALS.
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Thank you for the explanation of "refine hair" and pointing out the slider at the bottom. I have been waiting for a tutorial on refine hair and so far yours is the first one I have found.
I have many more on this channel, check them out
Dear Colin Smith
Thanks for the tutorial, another noticeable improvement in separating hair from the background.
Really shortens the whole process.
Thanks, Colin. I've never used the amount slider before, didn't even know it was there, but will work with it now!
Thank you for this, I needed a quick refresher and that’s just what you gave me. Sorry for all of the commenters who claim to know better but are, for whatever reason, wasting their time looking for reasons to naysay your content. Or won’t take the time to see that you have way more advanced content as well. I just can’t with them.
No, I hadn't noticed those new options. Thank for sharing
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Thank you! This did the worked almost perfectly for my project!
I was not aware of those options. Cheers from Nova Scotia....
Man you just saved me with this video and I've levelled up with the hair thing now too. Thanks!
Always nice to see your videos!
This made my day! Welcome to 2020s hair editing. Huge thanks, Colin!
sir you'r a great teacher tanx.
I would love to see this work on a picture with a complicated background. I shoot nature and we never get clean uniform backgrounds.
Same steps, just spend a little more time with selection and cleanup brushes. I have other tuts here on difficult selections.
Thank you for the tutorial!!! I love your teaching! You make it nice and slow to where anyone can understand, but not as long. Keep it up!!
Hello Colin, you show me always new tips. Thank you very much. 😎👏👏👏👋👋
Short and sweet!
Thank you so much. That shortened my trial and error time considerably. Very goo.
yay!
Thank you Colin,,,had neglected the slider and decontaminate options on past visits to this tool. Wow! PS is getting better with Ai.
Wow. I just tried it. Mannnnnn, do you know how high my blood pressure shot up trying to figure this out. You da Man!!!!
Hello again and thank you for this tutorial. When you say "new", I am not sure what you mean. These features have been in the S/M section for a while...a few month anyway, for the amount slider and I think slightly longer for the 'refine hair' button. They ARE very useful though, having said all that!:)
Select hair option was only added in the past few months and I thought the slider was new in the last update? Maybe I just never noticed it before lol
@@photoshopcafe Decontaminate sliders been there for a fairly long time. Adobe techs are trying to tweak how select and mask works. Actually I don't like select and mask but prefer to use channels to get a much cleaner selection.
Hey Colin.. as ever, you inspire and help us lesser mortals! No I hadn't noticed the Amount slider. Nice. Thanks again.
you are a genius thank you
Amazing thank you
You are amazing, and your tutorials
Great tips man! Thank you for always making us better designers!
I try :)
Really helpful! Thank you!
Thank you for this amazing tip. Selecting hair has always been a headache for me.
Enjoy all your 3 -4 minute quick tips, right to the point.
Thanks
Thank you Colin
Nice one Colin! Thanks! 👍
Thank you!
awesome work and info thank you Sir
Great feature, thank you for the video.
Colin Smith means fantastic...the photoshop legend..
Love your presentations, Keep it up.
really awesome
nice trick, thanks :)
Nice, thank you!
Thanks for the great information! :)
Very helpful, thanks
Great, thanks so much. Trying to take family's passport photo, so this is a big help.
This feature is there for years 😊
The select subject was added 2019, refine hair late 2020 (Adobe Mac release of Ps 2021) the slider for decontaminate added this year)
So good.💚🙏
The best ever
Thank you Sir!
Great! Another tool capable of selecting hair from a highly contrasted, solid background-the condition under which ALL tools work splendidly including ancient CHOPS
thanks
Muchas gracias.
I didn’t know thank you
Very good
I've been using "W" to bring up Select subject & select & Mask . Does that not work as well? It gets me to the same initial starting point. I didn't know the layer mask could be refined. I'll have to look for that.
Hello Colin great tutorial on refine hair however I dont seem to be able to turn on decontaminate colors. How can I do this please help I am not sure how to is it in the Photoshop Preferences.
Do you have the latest version? Its a new "ish" feature
Thanks Colin, I believe David is correct in his comment below, but another useful tutorial, many thanks!
Sorry to turn in to a parrot but any thoughts on the A1 yet?
Cannot make my mind up but am concerned about the "blackout" issue with the sensor next to the eye piece.
Quite a lot of money to spend for an issue like that?
Thanks once again Colin.
All Sony cameras do that I believe, it happened on the A7S and the A7s3, but because I use the eyepiece, it doesn't bother me.
I assume that once the layer mask is refined it must be applied before continuing with a composite (?).
Colin, love these extra tips to cut out hair. Thank you so much! I'm just wondering what are the brush settings that you use for the hardness and spacing in the Refine Edge Brush Tool? It's not like I can reset the tool or can I?
I usually make the brush a little smaller than the area I’m fixing.
@@photoshopcafe Thanks for responding. I was referring to the Hardness and Spacing of the Refine Edge Brush Tool. I can't find any reference to this anywhere online so I thought I'd ask you.
@@RosaPerry I just use the default settings
I know you've done a few tutorials on blending 2 images before but is match color the perfect tool if I have a subject that I've green screened and want to put that subject in
a landscape or urban scene so that the result looks real? Your tutorials, for me anyway, are so helpful and save me a lot of time. Please don't stop.
Match color is very useful for that
Can you explain or make a video if it is possible to create a non-destructive blur that I can change easily afterwards like adding a smartfilter that doesn't need 'OK' to press and can change any time.
Only in a smart object?
A smart filter is the next for this. Also try using blur gallery
No, I did not know about the check box and sliders. Question: would this process work to cut out a tree with light branches on a background sky?
You could try, but I have found it doesn’t work well with animals, because the AI only applies it to the head. Running the refine brush around the edges produces exactly the same result.
But this is with a nice white background. 😁
I was forced to work with a few LED bulbs and the background is dark blue lol.
I wonder if this works better than how I cut it out. Its mixed into the subject
That why most of the youtubers shows it, with an easy background bro.😂
I have other tutorials with difficult backgrounds on this Channel, they aren’t hard, but they make for a longer tutorial. I wanted to make this one a very short simple one.
@@TarunLakhera True true :P the transceivers I bought second hand have arrived today already!
They have two settings and seem to be only working on S2 for now so I hope that will work and I can make the background white.
@@photoshopcafe Hi, Colin. My photo is probably too bad for it, but I have the transceivers now and see if I can make them soft enough to work with 15Watt LED or just go all in with 2 flashguns. I just hope I can recreate that pose on my models. Right now I'm just selecting piece by piece and go with the color picker until either too much is gone or just too little, lol.
And she has a tule dress with hundreds of holes!
@@sirfrancisarthur I often shoot with a gray backdrop for those types of shots.
Great job, but I can't replicate it. I never did. It only works on perfect backgrounds like the one in the example photo which is in gray color. Either way was worth this presentation. Thank you!
Decontaminate has been there for years. I have used it in the past for doing green screen clean up.
Yes it has, but the slider is new
@@photoshopcafe Thank you for the correction!!!!
The thing about this technique is that it requires a fairly plain background. I am anxious, among the experts that I follow, to see a technique that works against a complex background.
I have lots of tuts with complex backgrounds (have a look here on my channel), I make both basic and advanced tut, this is one of the basic ones, so people can focus on the tools they need to use.
Please share image download link
happy
it would be great to have an automatic tool for the remaining 5% 😉
All these AI functions were a mystery to me...UNTIL I discovered THIS channel.
Thanks made my day
I'm still on 6.5, you're killing me lol
How do you still have a working computer that can run that?
@@photoshopcafe Win10, I have the full Master Collection, sold to me by Adobe one week before CC was announced, so call me bitter, but not upgrading anytime soon LOL
Ahhh why didn’t you put it on a new background to prove how well it worked?!
not working for me, gibes my hair invisible spots....
👍🏾🙏🏾
Disappointed you didn't take this further. Going just this far leaves you with broken strands, discolorations, etc
Can they sneak you in a better microphone?
Sweet! Which one are you buying me?
It’s hard to grasp that several years from now this may look rudimentary
Its only going to get better
Don't use the refine hair. Decontamination color to 100%. The result will be best. Believe or not!
Nice click bait there. Fooled me. Hehehe. In all seriousness, while its an improvement and can help to speed up the process, its far from foolproof. Try light hair or light background or situation where hair has light on one side of the strands and dark on the other and backdrop is complex multitude of colors and tones. Or noise image or any number of situation. Demos always work because they are designed to present ideal conditions. Still, its a step in a good direction but it will be a while before the tools can be properly trained and can actually make proper decisions on their own. Currently AI driven software is like a baby you train on particular things. And if you give it something it has not seen before, it gets confused. Its not smart, its just trained to do pattern recognition faster than manually doing it. And depending on the patterns it was train it, it can be serious hit or miss.
I also have more advanced ones ones on very difficult images on this channel. On those people complain that the vids are too long, on the short ones, they say it's too easy. Welcome to UA-cam :)
@@photoshopcafe With all do respect, you have been on UA-cam long enough to know that people don't mind lenght or difficulty of the video, they mind the grandiose , attention seeking headlines that misrepresent the content of the video itself. "Futuristic tool instantly cuts out hair in photoshop + cleans the edges" sounds like infallible magic like tool. In point of fact it is not. It works some of the time. If you named the video in a way that reflect the topic and tool more accurately, it would be hard to complain. But click baits, devalue credibility of the UA-camr. I've seen your work many many years ago, you are not new to the game, so why fall down the level of click baits? I don't get it. Don't you have higher standards?
@@KrunoslavStifter 2 words: UA-cam Algorithm. If you look at my videos, you will see I'm not in the habit of sensational headlines. Also if you see there are almost 700 likes and only 11 dislikes, not everyone is feeling the same way you are.
You are under the impression that you can do a plain simple headline and because it's quality, it will be watched? Not anymore sadly. I put a lot of work into my content and I want it to be watched. I don't hype up my content or mislead people. These tools are based on Adobe Sensei which is AI. Thats not futuristic?
@@photoshopcafe UA-cam algorithm is a fair point, although many UA-cam have run with it, so I would argue its a combine effort to arrive at the present state of UA-cam. I suppose at that point it becomes a personal choice. Does one rely on UA-cam algorithm for revenue or does not produce work for believing in integrity of it. I can see case being made for both approaches and fair amount of compromise in-between.
"I don't hype up my content or mislead people." If that is what you say. To me it does not seem like it. I don't know your real intentions behind the tile of the video, as far as I know you may indeed have no desire to mislead people, I cannot comment in your intentions with certainty. But what I can comment on with fair amount of certainty is that fact that title does not match the capabilities of the tool unless presented in a controlled demo example. You say you put a lot of work in your content. That may be so, but considering the hype of the title, I would argue that you could either try to live up to the claims in the tile, by putting the tool trough its paces, or choose another tile that reflects the fairly basic video that feels pretty mundane its presentation.
That being said, I understand if you want to appeal to the wider audience and want your videos to be watched by large audiences. I also understand your methods of trying to achieve, it, however on the moral grounds I cannot agree with the methods. This is probably where you and I differ. I put a lot of effort in my videos as well, but I don't use titles that I think will draw attention, I use descriptive tiles that try to honor the content of the video. I get to keep my integrity at the expense of small view count. You get to play by UA-cam rules as you claims and get rewarded by higher view count. I suppose we all have to chose our priorities. Fair enough?
P.S.
I think UA-cam was far better in the quality of content when professional UA-camr was not a career choice but accident. Once it became a career for people, by and large quality went down because everyone is computing for view counts , subscribers, likes and to appease the almighty algorithm and whims of Susan. But it is what it is.
I've been around since about the time you started on UA-cam and on the forums so I've seen your work many moons ago. If you don't mind, I feel that probably you have reached a point where you got too comfortable or not ambitious enough, but I feel your work has not improved very much for several years. If this exchange ends up doing anything I hope it makes you curious for new things and your add more your teaching and editing. Comfort zone is a comfortable place, but not much grows there.
Anyway, all that being said., I wish you success with your channel and I hope you take something of the things I mentioned under consideration.
Cheers!
@@KrunoslavStifter thanks for your opinions. As I said, I make different types of videos to widen my audience, I don’t make my living from UA-cam.
As fir my work not progressing, that’s a snap judgment. I’ve recently had my work featured in New York Times and my drone photography awarded from Time Magazine. I didn’t even do photography back in the forum days. Lol but it’s all good.
This isn't new at all.
As in the last year, to me thats new (The refine hair and slider on the decontaminate), I've been using Photoshop 25 years. These will also be new to a lot of other people.
@@photoshopcafe Ok. When it comes to getting the hair perfect, you'll always have to do things manually. They will never make that refine perfect. But it's gotten way better over the years. I always end up switching the brush to overlay and painting with black to remove the white.
@@MuzikkZone Truth, its not perfect.
Dear Colin, where are the knowledgeable people like you like Jesus, you are able professionally to manage a tutorial, we need more like you, not the HINDU, PEOPLE STEALING OTHERS TUTORIAL, they can not speak English but make nasty tutorials, everywhere I looking for a nice professional tutorial facing with those people. UTUBE NEEDS MORE AND MORE PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND JESUS. IM APPRECIATE OF YOU YOUR GRATEFUL TUTORIALS.
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