Masking Hair in Photoshop CS3

Dear Viewers:

I know that many of you were having issues with the sound in this video tutorial. I contacted the tutorial’s author, Chris Alvanas, and he sent a new copy of the video with higher sound levels and some bonus information. Sorry about the problems with the original. Thank you for the feedback.

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I am sure this is good tutorial. Too bad you can’t hear it. However the opening splash screen is very. That is alway important.

Love it

The intro audio for all of your videos is freaking ridiculously loud and unnecessary. Decent tutorial though.

Agree. The sounds was pretty bad. But great source!

You guys are working on the sound right? Great tutorial otherwise.

So far, it’s a nice screen. Will something show up on it soon? I hope so. I’ve been waiting 20 minutes….and still nothing. Works great otherwise!

Can hardly hear anything. I will be back later one. Too bad. Thank you

Video works fine here, audio too. Er well had to turn it up after turning down the blasto music intro. The intro music woke the dog & his fleas up.

Good tutorial

wonderful tutorial

Thanks for the tutorial. Sorry, but that background is pretty hideous…looks like a tie dye nightmare. That said I liked the calculation (blend) work.

ALSO! Why! Would so many people comment on the freaking audio? Simmer down nerds…check back later.

intro sound is damn loud but almost you cannot hear the voice in actual tutorial!

Thanx, great tutorial, but I agree with Ryan, the background you’ve chosen is horrible!

The tutorial was very helpful. The sound was low, but just bumping it up all the way I heard it just fine. If you can’t really hear it you can always hook up your computer to speakers!

Can’t hear it either!!

Hope volume is corrected soon.

Just as the video tutorial was getting interesting, it cut off to an advertisement for Layers Magazine and would not go back!!! Very annoying.

May 27-Brilliant information! No sound problems or ad probs my end.
Well done and thanks

Too bad you don’t have someone familiar with sound booth so you could adjust the intro audio level.

Use headphones to hear it. Nice tut, but a little long winded. Some of us don’t have a lot of time to listen to a lot of jibba jabber.

Details of the hard light layer that you briefly mention would make an informative tutorial alone. Ay chance that we could find out how you achieve this?

Nice tutorial. Tell people to get speakers and turn down their T.V.’s

Very informative, very helpful!!

Thank you

Chris, I have 2 of your DVD’s…I just love them. Regarding your audio, don’t put the mic right in front of your mouth, place it to the side of your mouth. When you pronounce words that start with B or P, your mouth let’s out a burst of air called “plosives” and that burst of air overdrives the audio signal and distorts. Place the mic to the side of your mouth and your audio will sound amazing! Also, normalize your audio track and that’ll make it sound even better. Keep up the great work!!!

nicely done, great tutorial helpful

i like this effect

Wow, what a great technique – and to think how long I’ve spent trying to figure out hair cut-outs!
Thanks.

Very good tut…best one I’ve seen for masking hair.

I enjoyed this tutorial. Sound was fine too. Thank you

Excellent!

FOrget the sound, man this was a great tutorial

Why are so many people ungrateful? You get a free tutorial.All you do is complain, complain, complain! Be thankful that we have these kinds of resources online for free. Take what you want from this turorial and stop whining! Thanks you to Chris for making an informal video.

not bad..its professional work..but its so long…it can be showed i think in 4 minutes….

the problem i had is that I couldn’t add a drop shadow to the head after it popped through the mask

I guess you could go one step further and use the mask to cut the image?

very nice tutorial, just divine you hear.. but tooooooooooooo loooong, u can explain us more in less time i think!!!!!

Great work. Is there a place to get fake eyes to change the eye coors?

Great tut. Learned a lot!

This is very useful for professionals because we have the time and zeal for learning but are short of time to go to any Institute for the same. In this regard you guys are really excellent and of great help.

Please tell me how I can get tutorial (CD or DVD).

Please tell me price also

Great tutorial! Long enough but not too long, although, as long as you tell me why you’re doing something or not doing something make it as long as you need to. Although the audio needed adjustment for my taste, a quick flick of the finger solved that problem. Thanks.

really great and easy to follow. I like how you took a very hard subject and simplified it. thx

I stumbled across this tutorial and now I am convinced “I know nothing”…lol. I will definitely get a subscription and watch more video.

Thank you, excellent tutorial!!

nice and thanx buddy

give me this tutorial below the email address

Audio was breaking up through most of the video then there was no sound.
I will try later.

Great job. I love this tutorial. Thanks for the post.

This is sick, but very god, thanks .

I do not believe this

WTH! Why is everyone complaining about the Idea, I’ve watched several of his tutorials and it sounds perfect to me, nothing wrong with it. For those of you with this issue, you might just want to check out your cheap ass sound card. I have high def 5.1 audio and everything sounds just fine!

Who cares about the background, its a tutorial!!! Thanks very much for such a great site which has changed the way I work in Photoshop and other adobe packages. Keep up the good work. Fab tutorial

لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله

wonderful tutorial
ماشاء الله على الشغل الجامد
بس ياريت يبقى التنفيذ على صوره اكثر تعقيدا
لأنى ملاحظ ان الخلفيه شديده السهوله…..صح؟

BUT what is the intended output of the file? What is the starting point file size or resoultion?

Interesting method BUT like with parts of your PS photography tutorials, you DO NOT view your finished work at 100%, which is where one could or would see the various flaws.

Scott Kelby is notorious for producing worthless tutorials for all but extremely low res, small size, web images, labled as Quick and Dirty. Fine for web designers but pretty worthless for photographers needing high res outputs.

I’d argue that BEFORE you start your tutorial, decide what the OUTPUT of the tutorial is for. Is it low res for the web, or is it high res for use in the highest quality print reproduction. THEN tell us the viewer, and peform the tutorial TO MATCH THE DESIRED OUTPUT, low res output, vs. high res output. ONE SIZE TUTURIALS DO NOT FILL ALL TYPES OF OUTPUTS.

Without seeing the results of the hair mask at 100%, you’re tutorial is too ambiguous and for a high res output, may in fact drive the end user crazy getting it to work. IF your tutorial works for a high res output as it appears to in your low res video, then great, but show us the results as we’d need to use and inspect them at 100% and HELP US figure out how to refine the retouching for high res outputs.

I do appreciate the help that you and Adobe are offering, but my intended outputs are for very large high res files where quick and dirty methods are rejected by editors and clients and therefore worthless. Many thanks for taking output resoultion into account and for showing us the results at 100%.

Great tutorial. I will have to write down the steps to remember.

I especially like the way he smacks his lips at least 200 times. I could not listen to this guy.

send to me the video please……….

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I’m very new to Photoshop and have an earlier version, however I do fully appreciate anyone that takes their time and effort to share their knowledge and experience for free. My only comment is, I wish the steps were written down, step 1, etc. It is difficult to write down steps while concentrating on visual.

this will really help me when it comes to hair… tnx very much!!

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There isn’t any sound!

Sorry.. My server was having issues and I wasn’t getting the sound stream.

thank u…. really coool

no sound guys??? common ya gotta get it right before you put it up!

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Very nice tutorial. Thanks. Great job!

thanks man, hope this will work for my schoolproject

Nice Tutor!!! Thanks

how do I mask BLOND hair, its not working wit this technique?

Great tutorial. Always been spending lots of time to mask hair. Hopefully this will speed up process. Thanks for sharing!!!
Love it!

Thank you. Great tutorial.
What are the web sites to having the DVDs?

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nice one, trying with solid shape hair.
need something to do messy hair.
its good anyway…thanks 4 sharing

thanks for everything, this is great

i like that blend mode in the brush option and the apply image technique which did a good job in doing a great contrast. nice work!

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Amazing! Thank you!

very helpful but i have not faster internet speed

Great tutorial, thanks for taking the time to do this. Question, any advice for dealing with hair that has very little contrast with the background?

I got the video part to play. My IT guy just happened to walk through the door, and magically, it began to play!

Amazing! thanks for this tutorial… so simple and to the point.

Finally! …thanks…that was the best masking tut I’ve seen…that will make my job much easier.