Masks and wispy hair

[tonygamble]

What are people doing these days to get over this challenge.

My search of old posts came up with this:-

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DEN has taken the URL offline. I have written to him asking if he kept the post. In the meantime does anyone have a plan of attack?

Tony

[jsachs]

This is a hard problem, especially when the wisps get down to the pixel size.

[pierrelabreche]

To retrieve the page

https://web.archive.org/web/20120306221 ... pyhair.htm

[tonygamble]

Well found.

Can you puzzle out what he was doing.

B channel? Any ideas?

Tony

[jsachs]

B as in RGB (blue).

[tonygamble]

I'm trying using the Separate Tool on the wisps.

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First attempt and not brillant. "Must try harder"

As per DENs thread one you sort the wisps the rest of the mark can be cleaned up in Brush.

REQUEST. I would love a hotkey to be able to Invert the mask (and turn it back again) as when I work with the Brush I am removing as much as adding. Can I set one Jonathan?

[jsachs]

There is one already -- F3 and F4 set Add or Subtract modes respectively.

[tonygamble]

Thanks J.

I had forgotten about that.

Better already.

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Shot is out of focus anyway - mea culpa.

[tonygamble]

If anyone is interested the Friedman site has just posted this.

I have not tried it yet but here is the link.

https://friedmanarchives.blogspot.com/2 ... -hair.html

Tony