The Single Best Way to Mask Hair in Photoshop!

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There are a lot of ways to mask hair. Some good, some bad. What I’m about to show you is a brilliant new way that takes little effort and delivers fantastic results-down to the last, wispy strands.
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[CHAPTERS]
00:00 Perfect Hair Masking
00:27 Seven Steps to Hair Masking
02:24 Working with a Gray Background
04:20 Blend Modes: Overlay vs Hard Light
05:41 Getting Rid of Aberrant Colors
06:24 Brightening the Background
08:49 Quickly Masking with Remove Background
10:22 Select and Mask, and Refine Hair
11:35 The Refine Edge Brush Tool
13:50 And That’s All There Is to It!

Пікірлер: 83

@bala1000mina 3 ай бұрын

Helpful and informative tutorial! Thank you so much Deke! God bless and good luck!

@dekeNow 3 ай бұрын

Excellent. Glad to be of service!

@joannawheeler8441 2 ай бұрын

i appreciate the length of the video, it includes many helpful tips for newbies. thanks

@dekeNow 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! (Always nice to hear.)

@normst.landau9827 2 ай бұрын

This is nicely done: practical info but merged with explanations of how the tools work an why and when to try them. Great video.

@dekeNow Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@leifnorinder4932 8 күн бұрын

Great tip! Thank You!

@dekeNow 6 күн бұрын

My pleasure!

@joannawheeler8441 2 ай бұрын

wow best tutorial on hair masking ive seen in such a long time thank you

@dekeNow 2 ай бұрын

And my pleasure!

@daniloledezma 4 ай бұрын

Amazing method... jawdropping results... So good...

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@emirjoshuaoyama 4 ай бұрын

Your work is professional and i like it, Thank you!.❤

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@sujiitkundu9843 4 ай бұрын

Excellent tutorial, nicely explained ❤

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@eurossocial 4 ай бұрын

Great tutorial. Thank you. It has been a lot of years to watch a video tutorial by You.

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Awesome, excellent, thx!

@gerarddesilva5193 4 ай бұрын

Brilliant! Many thanks.

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@vladepast4936 4 ай бұрын

Outstanding! Keep posting!

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@chasebros4948 4 ай бұрын

Blend modes are one of the best ways to capture every strand of hair. However, the blend mode you use will depend on the color of the background. This technique works best if the background is solid grey, white or black. If the background is around 50% grey (as it was in this video) then hard light or overlay could work. However, if your subject/person is on a white or black background then you would use multiply or screen respectively. In my experience, having the subject on white background set to multiply usually yields the best results. Because for most types of hair, a white background will give the greatest amount of contrast. If a person has white or light grey hair then a black background set to screen would be better.

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

True, all true. My challenge here was to come up with an approach that works with more casual. run-of-the-mill, generally plain backdrops. Doesn’t have to be gray. Low-color works fine, such as picture-free home or office walls. Bricks, tho, not so much. 😁

@invade81 18 күн бұрын

Yes - following this step by step with an image with a very dark background doesnt work so well, as when you crank the contrast on the blending layer that dark area turns to black rather than lightening up and 'disappearing' to allow the background layer through.

@josepbel8731 2 ай бұрын

Great !! Thnx a lot.

@dekeNow 2 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@gregwoolliscroft6255 4 ай бұрын

This is brilliant thanks so much, I subscribed...

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Well, that is great new, thx!

@GusMcCrae01 4 ай бұрын

Excellent info!

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@ndvngv Ай бұрын

Old school photoshop is a thing now.Awesome tutorial

@dekeNow Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@KingZero69 4 ай бұрын

great video, thank you 💪

@dekeNow 3 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@jensormslev9435 2 ай бұрын

Why is it in the last step remove background it dosen't do that, it shows the background from layer beneath that you desaturated but not the picture you wanted as background?

@dekeNow 2 ай бұрын

At 9:32, I click the Remove Background button. At 9:39, Photoshop masks away the background from the active layer and reveals what I want it to, the images behind that layer. (It doesn’t remove the flat Background from the bottom of the Layers panel; you don’t need a button for that.) Does that help?

@drewfl 4 ай бұрын

I tried it.. the best method to mask hair.. thank you so much

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Excellent news!!

@orionorion2405 4 ай бұрын

Excellent !

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

thx!

@rgarlinyc 4 ай бұрын

Very cool, thankya!

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@felipehenaovideo 4 ай бұрын

Great Deke short and substancial

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@chguu 4 ай бұрын

OMG, I've been watching ur vids on hair masking since ur Lynda days. A very fascinating & complex subject, with ur your technique's it make it much more easier than usual. I am glad i found ur KZfaq site. -PS i was waiting for the dreaded Calculation method, Suppose the new Improvements means that method is now redundent? Followed. Thanks again A*****************

@dekeNow 3 ай бұрын

Great news! No way is obsolete-in fact, might have to visit calculations soon 😁

@paolovolante 4 ай бұрын

Interesting approach, thanks. In my opinion you should explain the method in a quarter of the time and demonstrate it on 3 other different portrait, with different, more intricate background. Same length, much more helpful.

@fjcphy 20 күн бұрын

in a short time he explained very well

@dekeNow 19 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@Daniel_Ilyich 4 ай бұрын

This way is better than "The AI Hair Masking Trick Every Pro Needs to Know?"

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

That’s what I get for using superlatives. 😄But seriously, they both have their uses!

@poeda6637 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Would there be a way to keep the hairs on the left that turned Andy Warhol as they were one stage earlier? Just skip the refining brush there?

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Those left-hand hairs are not the most successful element of the composition-so far. They get much better at my Patreon, patreon.com/dekenow.

@leuallen3000 4 ай бұрын

Good to see you again. I used to follow you religiously.

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Good to see you as well!

@Nawazaahr 2 ай бұрын

I learned it the old way of using channels and overlay painting from you and enjoyed it. This is far too easy now with auto selections.

@dekeNow 2 ай бұрын

Great news!

@pinakipratidin8301 4 ай бұрын

Excellent Tutorial Sir... I am Pinaki from India... Almighty God bless U

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Thx!

@EricRenno 4 ай бұрын

What a great technique! Thanks Deke. (Can I retire the 1 pixel brush for good now?)

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Saying never to a 1-pixel brush would be like throwing away my last pair of tweezers. Sometimes, you just gotta zoom in and tweeze.

@ziaulmonsur 4 ай бұрын

❤from Dhaka, Bangladesh 🇧🇩

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Cool!

@cindilu2 4 ай бұрын

Love this method! When I use the menu to add adjustment layer for Brightness/Contrast, it automatically added a mask to the layer, where yours didn't. Is that a preference I'm missing?

@negz103 4 ай бұрын

he wasnt useing an adjustment layer but just an adjustment.

@cindilu2 4 ай бұрын

@@negz103 I know, but when I use the menu Brightness/Contrast it is still adding a mask. That's why I asked.

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Yes, there is. From the Adjustments panel, click the flyout menu hamburger and choose Add Mask by Default to turn it off.

@cindilu2 4 ай бұрын

@@dekeNow Thank you!

@ricwilliams9922 4 ай бұрын

I've been watching your videos and reading masking books for about ten years. Why've I never heard of this method or known about it? Is this evidence of my unending stupidity with Photoshop?

@dekeNow 4 ай бұрын

Nope. It’s because I just made it up! 😁

@ricwilliams9922 4 ай бұрын

@@dekeNow Smart puppy!

@alanm.6096 3 ай бұрын

Deke - just to confirm - did the refine brushing get rid of the halo? Some day Adobe will develop the Remove Halos Brush. Thanks for the detailed instructions. You can never be too detailed when presenting to rookies.

@dekeNow 3 ай бұрын

At 12:06, you can see the halo around the shoulder is diminished, but not entirely eliminated. Agreed, it would be very nice to have a Remove Halos Brush-especially in the standard toolbox (i.e., not inside a workspace).