How to Cut Out Hair with the Brush Tool in Photoshop
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
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How to Cut Out Hair with the Brush Tool
When cutting a person out of their background, hair is often the hardest area to master. Learn how to create custom brushes and use them to cut out hair in today's episode!
Hair Vs. Body
It is helpful to think of cutting a person out in two different parts - the body and the hair. Cutting out a subject's body is relatively easy, though it may take some time. For best results, we recommend using the Pen Tool.
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Because hair contains fine detail, it is best done with selection tools or the Brush Tool, as taught in this tutorial.
How to Create a Custom Brush
The first step in cutting out hair is to create a custom brush that looks like a single strand of hair. Everyone has different hair, so each brush is unique to the individual being cut-out.
In this example, we start by creating a single "hair" which is just a brush stroke with a very small diameter to simulate a hair.
Once a single brush stroke is created, it is time to turn it into a Custom Brush Shape. Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool and create a square selection around the hair by holding SHIFT+CLICK-DRAG. Fill the square selection with white and move it behind the layer with the hair on it. Center the hair in the white square by clicking on the Pen Tool, then the Alignment Controls on the top of the screen.
After the hair is centered, keep the selection of the white square active and go to "Edit - Define Brush Preset" and give the brush a name. This will create a brush with the shape of a hair, next it is time to define the custom brush characteristics in the Brush Menu.
Defining Custom Brush Characteristics
To open the Brush Menu, go to "Window - Brush." In this advanced menu, you can control many characteristics of a brush, including shape dynamics, scattering, rotation and size. For best results, mix and match settings to simulate natural hair.
Try adding Size Jitter, Angle Jitter, Scattering, and Roundness Jitter.
Painting Hair on a Layer Mask
After creating the "Hair Brush," it is time to paint on the layer mask to reveal the hair. In this example, we cut out the subject's body with the Pen Tool first, then painted in the hair with the custom brush.
Keep in mind, hair changes size and direction on different areas of the head. The Custom Hair Brush can be rotated in the "Brush Tip Shape" dialog in the "Brush Menu." Change brush size using the open and close brackets "[" "]"
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works for a white background, i'd like to see what would happen to his cutout on any noticeably different color background.
1) there's light green/gray background colours in between hairs.
2) there's reflective light on the skin/shirt/hair that would look wrong.
Agree. If a dark background is used as a replacement, we're sure to see all kinds of unwanted white bits and will look terrible for sure
Nice job. I like your no-nonsense approach. Thank you for the hard work put into making these tutorials. I like how you summarize at the end.
You're an excellent teacher. Thanks again.
There are tons of hair cutting tuts on youtube. This one has a unique approach, love this method. This also works on less convieniant backgrounds. Thnx again
Great video. I also liked the tip about the adjusting the mask density. That will be a big help on my other masking projects.
Bloopers are always best!!!!
Este tío me parece genial. Estoy aprendiendo con él más que con cualquier libro, tutoríal o clase que haya visto jamás. Enhorabuena por enseñarnos con tanta claridad y profundidad los secretos de Photoshop. Sigue asi!!!! Eres genial.
I don't have Photoshop CC, I am using Photoshop Elements 15. This brush preset works in Elements but you don't have as much control as in the Photoshop CC. Thanks for creating and sharing this preset.
You're great Aaron...thanks a lot for these tutorials..helped me a lot... and with all practical tips it's just great! :) keep up the good work.. greetings from Croatia!
✠ Owww man, I´m a very very big fan of you. The way you explain resolution for issues and complicated points is really amazing. You have the gift of teaching, and always the most creative solutions. Best regards from Brazil.
You are a gentleman and a scholar, sir!
Time for the good Photoshop developers to develop a selection tool that lets you create a selection around all the hair you want selected and let Photoshop do the rest.
dear speaker, you have great communication and have delivered your instructions well. I found this information easy to absorb and will refer back to this video again to retain more information. as a beginner, I noticed you have included lots of information in this short video.
Thank you so much Aaron and Phlearn for every fantastic video .
That's like thinking out of the box!!! Nice one! I'll try it when I make cut outs of Samoyeds!!!👍🏽
awesome, 3 video a week..
can't wait for more..
thank you Aaron for put your hard work for always consistent uploading worth content..
What if the original image has a dark background?
Just a shame you used a relatively easy image to do this with. If the background would have been darker and you put it on a light background, it is way harder. Would have been nice to see houw you get along that.
FANTASTIC!
A similar episode but with a girl with long messy hair would be awesome.
Vadiv91 yes defo
Long, curly and blond hair in front a light backround :-D
great video as always. I don't see any problems with dark or light background. Thanks Aaron
How nice! Helpful for beginner to advance level.
hi... really out of context query, but can you share which graphic tablet you use ?? Can you also suggested one that good for photoshop & Lightroom but not too expensive. Thanks
Hi Aaron, I'm new to PS, so my Q may sound stupid. Are you using the Brush Tool in the tutorial, instead of the Quick Selection one, because the second is not so precise and may not always select the area, that needs to be cut, or...?
Best regards!
cool technique...thx a lot, Aaron!
very useful but I wouldn't use this all the time unless the hair is very messy or spiky. Thanks for the tutorial
Your tuturial so wonderful
Great work buddy
At last! At last! At last...now I have the simple answer to a less than simple problem. Thank you. Now I need your help getting rid ZebraFace...those dark shadows caused by the rims/frames of eyewear! My effort always looks waxy and totally unconvincing. Can you please do a tutorial on the best way to deal with this problem? I'll look every day :) Cheers - Kevin
Amazing tutorial
Aaron, when are you going to get behind the camera again? You used to take amazing photos! I miss that. I have a feeling you do too.
;) Keep your eyes peeled this month.
Was always curious how pros did this. Thanks for sharing!
I was wondering what size Wacom tablet you use on the show is it the medium size or the small?
I learaned something new today. Today was a good day :)
Guys! Background music please! Link to buy or something please. Thank you.
Amazing techniques!!!! You are awesome!!
Thank you. Great tutorial, great idea generator. Thanks for sharing!
Perfect! Just what I needed!
Cool tehnique, thx and thumb up!
When you click and drag after creating the new brush it creates multiple lines like hairs, but if i click and drag it just creates a straight horizontal line. How so?
awesome technique
I can't tell what, but something went wrong here. I got it right up to the point where only the face without hair is showing. But I couldn't use the brush to make the hair show. For some reason I can only use the brush on the face, but then what I get is a hairy face, which is not ideal, at least not the pic I want to use the technique on. Can you tell me what could I have done wrong?
You guys are awesome
thanks for such a fabulous tutorial,helped me a lot
A really helpful tutorial, as always... but now I want to be able to rotate my brush with the keyboard. I've been trying to find a way to do this. I tried to assign a shortcut, but there isn't an option for brush rotation in CS5 (which is what I have) so I tried recording an action, but that didn't work. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Did it have some keyboard shortcut to the angle of the brush? Thanks!!
Fantastic skilles , bless you and a sky sized thanks
Very useful video please make another by using brush tool how to remove Curley hair from background. Urgent and I am waiting
Thanks
very good quality tutorial
Gran trabajo, muchas gracias.
Cool but if is the hair coiled?
sir ur tutorials are awsome
It should be noted that this only really works if you are working with a source image that has a background colour that is similar to the one you are going to end up with. If you were going to isolate this person and then try to put, say a red background behind him, you are going to be masking areas that don't actually have hair. So you will end up with a person that has blond and white hair on a red background.
Great Video..but I agree with others,should do one with a a busy or darker background. Thanks
good job man .
Awesome! Thank you.
thanks aron. this is amazing
Perfect as ever, Aeron! Thank you for providing the internet with usefull content. I love following your channel. Have a nice day! :-)
Hi Aaron, what camera do you use for your videos? The clarity and sharpness is amazing on my screen. I've seen many of your videos, but this video seems to be one of the best in quality. Thank you!
thanks aron
great vid.. it's very helpful.. thank you so much...
As I don't have a tablet I don't seem to be able to create a stroke that is pointed at the end. It is just rounded. Have fiddled about one hour now and am pretty pissed. Probably I'm just too stupid.
cannot find the Hair Final to download. clicked joined etc. Noseeum.
THIS IS GENIUS! THANKS
nice tutorial its me very difficult to cut the hair from the background but your tutorial gib some new ideas to create innovative
Interesting approach. Thanks :)
Top notch. Thank you.
Thanks for all your tutorials Aaron, its so handy!
Just wondering, have you ever thought of doing any cool photomanipulation tutorials?
Cheers from Australia!
SOOO USEFUL!! thank you
Amazing...Thank you Aaron :)
Hey Aaron, I'm wondering if you could provide me with some tips on working large documents. I have a job request where the client is asking for a photo manipulation that has to be printed at 100 DPI but the document size needs to be 5.3m x 3.5m.
So basically my laptop can't handle this. I'm not new at Photoshop so you can go all technical on me :)
Hi! What brand is your pressure sensitive tablet?
I have to use Photoshop CS2 because i'm poor.
Rick Cleek yarr
LisaBaby Photographer/Gamer/Audi xx But it's awful, I tried it, but ended up downloading CS2 form the Adobe Website because it's free.
I have cs2 and cs4 but prefer gimp got changing backrounds and layers works for me lol maybe I learn more how to use it and it's so easy once I get a new laptop I'm buying light room and ps6 as I do photography so really need to upgrade lol
Well... Download the cracked CC or Cs6... Learn on youtube and other sites... make money with it and then pay a original copy :)... i did this and im not ashamed... i have a home now, thanks to that...
I only learn my self off you tube books ect and bought a home studio lighting ect and just learn my self have done now for 10 year now I may be very behind on the software but it's never been been a problem for people booking me as I have my own unique way I suppose like any other. Am glad you are all doing well its a fun and great thing to get into 🤗
Aaron, thx for the great lesson! But I have one question - What should we do if our object is woman? With long hairs.
Cause few days ago I retouched 30 images of children in studio on white (mostly) background. And besides sking retouch I needed to cutout them from that background. And there was 5 children in different clothes (some of them was hairy), with different hairs. And it was boys and girls.
I did it as usually - mask from one of the channel (blue mostly), do some contrast adjusment for this mask and many many hand adjusments, cause Refine Mask or other automate tools are...stupid. Poor results.
So ok, your method is great till we have short mostly straight hairs. But if it long woman's hairs? And we have more than one image with different size of model in it.
Do you have any great method for this kind of situation?
Great videos :)
am i wrong or phlearn isn't funny anymore? i mean it's still the best, but i saw a lot of episodes back in the 2014 and they were so funny!!!!
great!!! thank you 🙋🙆👼🐉
Thank you so much very helpful
this is so helpful thanks
thanks man really helped me alot
this is magic, thank you 😉
Nice Technical, Thank You !
What type of camera are you using to film the tutorial? It has excellent quality!
you're a genius!
nice job
What tablet do you use? Thanks
Very Nice, Nace :-)
Can this method good works with photo shop cs3?
very good
Can you please also make a tutorial for curly hair please!!!!! Thank you!
Hi Aaron, I enjoy watching your tutorials and they always help me. However, I have to make my face scary like a zombie. Do you have any tutorials on "Making your face into zombie". I'm a beginner on the photoshop. Thanks
hello aeron nace how to curly hair with this brush
wow, nice : )) thanks for share
Can this be done in cs6 and would the tools be the same?
Yes
Do you think this will work with pet hair?
so great, but can you show me how to match the image with the background color
I would use mask and refine edge to cut out but ok :D
brilliant!
Just thinking. I like this method a lot, but wouldn't using the channels be just as effective when the BG isn't as wild and difficult?
Awesome technique Aaron, thank you, learning so much from your tutorials.
great videos