Extracting hair - Please help!

[pixelzombie]

the boxing sample has some nice contrast between the hair and background, if i sent you a file do you think you would have time to use fluid mask on it?

[cheshirepoet]

Sure, although I won't get to work on it until Monday if that's alright. You can send it to shana@simoneassociates.com if it's not too large

[pixelzombie]

that would be great, i'll just post it to flickr and give you the link..thanks

[ray12]

I use Fluid Mask regularly for extracting hair from backgrounds...when its working... it works real great...I can even get individual strands of hair cutting out with no fringing. There are other times when the background and the hair are almost indesquishable...and in that case...almost nothing is going to help. I have made up a set of Hair Brushes of single strands and groups of strands that can be added in to places where the hair cut out is damaged. Sometimes you have to cheat to get good looking hair...but is terriblt challenging to get perfect. Fluid Mask does the best job of any software I have used to date.

Ray12

[pixelzombie]

how does it compare to Knockout?

[grimby]

Russel Browns masking demo is really good, probably one of the best I've seen. A craftsman at work !!