Please help (cutting hair from a background)

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Wellie

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Ok ok, I am seriously about to go insane! I have these stunning photos of this girl, but she was standing to far over and off of my background.... this means she was standing in front of a colour which is almost the exact same colour as her hair, which is making it near impossible to cut out. I have tried using channels, I have tried refine edge techniques in CS5, and after that failed also I am at a loss on what to do next. Her hair is realllly wispy as well... I really want to fix them but I don't know how :(

Any techniques anyone can think of please?

Thanks...

(PS, I can't post the photo... not without permission from the girls mother.. sorry)
 
Wellie said:
(PS, I can't post the photo... not without permission from the girls mother.. sorry)
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Did you sign copyright of the photo over to the mother? If not then you can post the photo for us to see.

Personally I don't think seeing the photo will help though. It sounds like you made the mistake then taking the photo by not having the model and the background aligned so it looks like you're on to a loser. You can probably do a bad job of cutting her out but if the hair and the background are a very similar colour then the chances of making a good job of it are remote.
 
Can you block out the features on the girls face, enough so she's unrecognizable... then we can see the hair & background...?

Edit: Oops been beaten to it by B3R.
 
Thanks for the replies

The mother is a friend of ours, and she asked that we only share the photos with permission.... I don't want to risk it seeming she might be getting me clients in the future.

Yeah... it was kind of an accidental photo.... mother was just finsihing the girls hair on the side of the background.... but turns out it was a really nice photo...

When this happened previously, I just copied the hair from another photo and just blended it in (works extremely well), but with this one I don't think I have another photo where she is looking the same way... it's very frustrating...

I don't want to spend hours cutting it out, only to find it's not going to work... I thought the channel thing (selecting channel, changing levels) would work but maybe I am doing it wrong, I don't know.... I can clearly get the hair and background seperated but the edges are quite 'chopped up' if that makes sense? And feathering isn't helping :-/
 
topaz remask is a plugin for photoshop that is great for doing what your after.....check their website i think they used to have video demo

Gary
 
Send it to www.mrclipping.com
When you register you get 1 free image clip to try the service.
 
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