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Creating a hair-only mask - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Creating a hair-only mask
Now, when we last left off, as you may recall, the model's hair was looking absolutely great; her face looks great as well. But the bottom portions of her jaw, and along her neckline, and into her shoulders looks absolutely wretched. And so what we need to do is create a third layer of the model in which we mask her flesh tones away from her hair. This time around we can go ahead and create the mask directly inside of our composition at hand. Now, you may recall that the Channels panel is always seeing the composite view of the image. So what I need you to do, if you are working along with me, is press the Shift key and click the Layer Mask thumbnail for the M2 R10 layer. And that'll go ahead and temporarily turn that layer mask off, so that we are revealing the original model. Now switch over to the Channels panel. We need to find the channel that does the best job of distinguishing the flesh tones from the hair this time around. That's not going to be the Blue Channel, because both…
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Choosing the ideal base channel5m 7s
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Converting a channel into a mask6m 34s
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Painting with the Overlay mode7m 27s
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Painting with the Soft Light mode5m 55s
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Mask, composite, refine, and blend4m 40s
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Creating a more aggressive mask7m 2s
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Blending differently masked layers7m
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Creating a hair-only mask6m
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Using history to regain a lost mask3m 42s
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Separating flesh tones from hair8m 28s
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Adjusting a model's color temperature4m 30s
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Introducing the Calculations command7m 22s
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Extracting a mask from a Smart Object6m 34s
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Integrating a bird into a new sky5m 40s
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Creating synthetic rays of light6m 4s
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Masking and compositing light7m 39s
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Introducing a brilliant light source7m 5s
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Using the image to select itself1m 37s
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