Laying down a base layer mask

…Over the course of this project,…we're going to take this guy with this up-swooped hairdo.…And we're going to Mask him against this completely different background.…In order to create this final composition.…In which as you can see the hair has survived quite nicely.…And I've gone ahead and recolored his glasses and his shirt and…his suit to better match his new environment.…So, we'll start off inside this image.…And in this movie, we're going to go ahead and…establish a base layer mask using the most capable of…the automated selection tools which is the Color Range command.…Notice that the Side View Layer is selected here in the Layers panel.…

That's the photographic image, which comes to us from the Fotolia Image Library…about which you can learn more and get special deals.…At fotolia.com/deke.…I'm going to go up to the Select menu and choose Color Range.…If you load a Deke, you've got that keyboard shortcut.…Ctrl+Shift+Alt+G or Cmd+Shift+Option+G on a Mac.…Because black is my foreground color,…the Color Range command is using black as my key color for the selection.…