Photoshop Mama's #4 Green Screen Extract Wispy Hair

photoshopmama Says:

May 12, 2012 - OK same as above but just noticed you said you "created the drawing in Photoshop" so obviously no need to scan or take picture.

photoshopmama Says:

May 12, 2012 - By drawing, I'll assume it's just ink or pencil, no colors. Scan or take a picture of your drawing. Drag the drawing file from Bridge into your opened project file. It will come in as a smart object so scale as needed then click the commit check or enter. Then set the drawing layer to "Multiply Mode" so all the whites will disappear. You can also add a Levels directly to the drawing layer to increase contrast by pulling the white & black input sliders toward center a bit.

TheBigsteely101 Says:

May 12, 2012 - I just created a drawing in photoshop. I would like to now take that drawing (without the white background) and inset it into another photoshop project that I have going on. Can you explain how I can do this without using the feature to extract? One thing I should note is that I used dodge and burn features on some layers. Thanks Cory

photoshopmama Says:

May 6, 2012 - Alt/Option click on the thumbnail of the mask of the layer to view in the big image window; to get back to normal view do the same thing-alt/option click on the mask thumbnail.

battleaxeish Says:

May 6, 2012 - Hi, your video has been the best help so far. I have no sound, and you have probably told us how to do this, but how do you get the layer mask to edit. I have got as far as 12.49 minutes, but the next step of getting the mask into the edit area has left me scratching my head and getting splinters.

MASSIVESTUDIOENT Says:

May 6, 2012 - Best tutorial in you tube really proffecinal thank you

john de castro Says:

May 5, 2012 - do you have a tutorial like this one WITH the NOISY BACKGROUND? i mean with lots of colors on the hairs background cause not every picture has a green screen background ... that tutorial would be like be my very most favorite if you have one... thanks

FSkullTutorials Says:

May 3, 2012 - is it me or the hair looks like ted mosbys hair

omar perez Says:

Apr 16, 2012 - You guys should check out this videos out they are really helpful youtube.com/user/ShanDanVideo

Carlos Coleman Says:

Apr 6, 2012 - This is the first of your tutorial I have watched... It has made this process easy for me to remember and do. I checked out your website and loved your work.

watadok1d Says:

Mar 29, 2012 - Which photoshop did u use. Is it for certain photoshops or all of them

photoshopmama Says:

Mar 21, 2012 - Thanks! Appreciate it!

kankantx Says:

Mar 21, 2012 - I LOVE YOUR TUTORIALS!!!

MrOyalslic Says:

Mar 19, 2012 - Love it , Love it , Love it!

32jtone Says:

Mar 18, 2012 - Shes nicccee!!!!!

dennishenz Says:

Mar 9, 2012 - Fab video, great help, thanks!

Rayarts1 Says:

Feb 29, 2012 - I LOVE IT , AMAZING! 

photoshopmama Says:

Feb 22, 2012 - Make sure your brush is in Normal Mode at 100% Opacity and than your cancel cast spill layer is not in Normal mode but in Color Mode at 40-70% Opacity.

afterSHOcKsStudios Says:

Feb 22, 2012 - sorry! I read other people's post and I found the answer... i had to set the mode to darken or multiply... thanks so much!

afterSHOcKsStudios Says:

Feb 22, 2012 - hi photoshopmama, i'm having difficulty getting the "cancel cast spill" layer to work... I have followed the precise instructions and when I go to "paint" over top of the hair using the hair colour (alt-click), the spots do not change into the hair colour. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

0816GQ Says:

Feb 1, 2012 - gay... 

photoshopmama Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - Everyone doesn't use a green screen. Typically for video one uses a green or blue screen because software for video has the functionality to remove that color for an Alpha (transparency) channel. Alot of our clients do take the photos into video---but if you don't have that software then this is one way to extract in Photoshop. Typically, for just photo's we shoot on a white background and then the process is simpler in my opinion.

fucut00b Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - good tutorial but why does everyone use green? Why not blue or red or any other color the effect would be the same with any

mirzameltem Says:

Dec 15, 2011 - this tutorial is perfect mama.thanks so much about it.

kareka5551 Says:

Dec 10, 2011 - save as option is not working in photosgop cs5 but it work in other computer Note : My system Win 7 u can help me ???