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Remove background behind the curly hair in Photoshop
This one is a bit longer but still easy to finish. Learn how to remove background from a photo featuring person with a curly hair.
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Open a photo with a person who has curly hair.
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Duplicate the layer by pressing Ctrl (Command in MacOS) and J at the same time. Make the original layer invisible (see picture). Duplicated layer should be still be active (see picture).
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Choose the Eraser Tool (E for a keyboard shortcut).
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Right-click the document and set an appropriate eraser size for your image (see picture). Press Enter to confirm the brush settings.
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Now delete the area around the person (see picture). Background should now be checkered (transparent) as mine.
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I removed as much as I could and I wasn't being to precise. You can also keep changing the eraser size like you did in Step 4 for a better result.
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Now select the original layer but leave it "invisible" for now. Create a new layer.
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In the menu click Layer, New Fill Layer and choose Solid Color... Click OK.
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Now choose a color you like and click OK.
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Select the duplicate layer (see picture).
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Choose the Background Eraser Tool. Hold your mouse on the Eraser Tool until other eraser tools show up as well.
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Right-click the document, set an appropriate brush size for your image and set Hardness to about 82%. Set spacing to 1%.
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In the toolbar above set limits to Discontigious and Tolarence to 50%.
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Enable the Protect Foreground Color option as well.
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Now click somewhere inside the curls ...
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... and drag over the od background to remove it. Keep doing that carefully and slowly. If you mess up, click Edit in the menu and choose Undo.
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Repeat the procedure everywhere where you spot the old background. You can also try and disable the Protect Background Color at some parts for the better result.
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Double-click the Color fill layer left thumbnail (see picture). The top duplicated layer should stay active.
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In the color picker window choose a darker color in case you chose the light color and your old background is bright like in my case. Click OK.
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Choose the Burn Tool. If your old background is in darker color, you might want to choose the Dodge Tool.
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In the toolbar above, set Range to Midtones and Exposure to 100% (see picture).
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Now carefully click the parts where background is still visible. As I chose the darker color, the old background pops out a bit more making it easier to spot.
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Done! I chose the background color once more, do you remember how we did that?
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