Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Hair

In this installment of his popular Masking & Compositing series, Photoshop guru Deke McClelland shows how to select hair—down to the individual strands—and composite portraits against new backgrounds. The course covers how to mask out hair, paint in detail, blend hair, merge channels, and match light sources. Deke also explores special techniques for working with both dark and light hair, as well as extracting hair from complex backgrounds.

Learning objectives
Understanding the Calculations command
Calculating masks with the Subtract and Add modes
Enhancing a mask with Apply Image
Creating a traditional blue screen mask
Masking dark hair against a busy background
Painting in missing hairs with a Wacom tablet
Masking blonde hair and flames
Performing selective edits with Dodge and Burn
Masking a difficult image in multiple passes