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This article is from January 30, 2002, and is no longer current.

Extracting Hair in Photoshop with Russell Brown

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Through a special arrangement with Adobe, creativepro.com is posting nifty Photoshop tips and techniques by Russell Brown, Adobe’s digital imaging guru and Photoshop maestro. As one of the original contributors to Photoshop, Russell knows the program inside and out. Don’t know who Russell is? Find out!

Anyone who’s ever done masking in Photoshop knows how frustrating it is to work on image with hair. In this PDF tutorial, “Extracting Hair,” Russell shows you how to isolate wispy tendrils of hair with ease, using Photoshop’s Extract command. It’s better than giving your image subjects a buzz cut.

To get started, open the PDF file.

 

RUSSELL BROWN is the Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems, and an Emmy Award-winning instructor. He shares his delight in testing the creative limits of his tools, and his in-depth design knowledge and zany presentation style has won him a regular following among beginning, intermediate, and advanced users alike.
  • anonymous says:

    I would love to read the article but it does not load.
    Thanks

  • anonymous says:

    Russell Brown did a great job introducing this feature… I wish he included more details.

  • anonymous says:

    If the PDF file didn’t load, please download the Acrobat Viewer and try agin. We did test this article on both PCs and Macs with both browsers (and several versions of those browsers) so it does work.
    Thanks,
    Pamela Pfiffner, editor in chief

  • anonymous says:

    You’d think RB could have updated this ancient PDF. Didn’t we bury Photohop 5 almost 2 years ago? Maybe he was too busy thinking up stupid jokes?

  • anonymous says:

    The article was very informative, however I am not able to print it to keep a copy for easy reference.

  • anonymous says:

    The article was very informative, however I am not able to print it to keep a copy for easy reference.

  • Anonymous says:

    Thank you, this was a lifesaver.

  • Anonymous says:

    The very first instruction says go into Image and select Extract. There is no Extract under Image in Photoshop. This tutorial was a failure from the get-go.

  • Terri Stone says:

    Check the publication date on this article: 2002. The instructions were correct for the version of Photoshop that was current in 2002.

    For a Photoshop CS5 tutorial on masking hair, see https://creativepro.com/article/mask-flyaway-hair-moments-using-photoshop

    Terri Stone
    Editor in Chief, CreativePro.com

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