need some photo extraction assistance

[Sonny]

i'm decent when it comes to photo extracton, but when it comes to photos with hair i'm horrible. i took this photo right after my son's bath and we towel dried his hair. i would like to touch up this photo and extract him so i can make a desktop wallpaer for my wife & i.

would ya'll be so kind as to give me some help?

[Jake]

I am no pro, but here is my shot at it. I think you can clone out some of the spots I left. That pic to cute, I love that hair.

[wrogers]

WOW :shock: That is a great job with the hair..My I ask,,,How? Is it a technique in Katrin Eismann book Masking and compositing

[Jake]

I used Corel knock out 2

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by thejakestir

I am no pro, but here is my shot at it. I think you can clone out some of the spots I left. That pic to cute, I love that hair.

that is a great job! thanks for the extraction, but i really want to learn how to do it.

here's my poor attempt using the extraction tool in PS CS2. this is the best i can do, but as you can see parts of his hair do not turn out the way i would like.

[Jake]

Originally Posted by korrupt

that is a great job! thanks for the extraction, but i really want to learn how to do it.

Thanks! I did not do to much, corel knockout did most the work. It is great software try it out for your self, I dont know if there a demo or not but it is worth the price, it work's with photoshop as a plug-in. That extraction would take me a lone time if I had to do it without the plug-in.

[Jake]

Originally Posted by korrupt

here's my poor attempt using the extraction tool in PS CS2. this is the best i can do, but as you can see parts of his hair do not turn out the way i would like.

That looks pretty good to me, how long did it take to do?

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by thejakestir

That looks pretty good to me, how long did it take to do?

3 minutes

[Jake]

Originally Posted by thejakestir

looks pretty good to me, how long did it take to do?

Originally Posted by korrupt

3 minutes

3 minutes? That is pretty fast, it would just take a few more minutes to clean it up some. I dont have PS CS2 I just have PS 7, but look like PS CS2 has a pretty good extraction tool. I dont think you need to much help, yours looks good for only 3 minutes of work :D

[ndsimm]

Ok, we need a new section if it's not already there on how tos....I got PSCS2 and the only thing I would have used the magic eraser or background eraser because I didn't know about extraction. great job on these images though

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by ndsimm

Ok, we need a new section if it's not already there on how tos....I got PSCS2 and the only thing I would have used the magic eraser or background eraser because I didn't know about extraction. great job on these images though

there are plenty of PS tutorial site. some cover simple extraction, but i have not seen one that has helped me.

if you are interested in the tutorials site...here are a few.

http://www.good-tutorials.com/

http://pslover.com/

http://www.photoshopchop.com/index.p...37b4f08bdd5118