How to Make Selections with refine edge in Hair Image and Change its Background

Changing Background with Refine Edge 

Adobe Photoshop presents us a first short look at how much easier it could be to select hair, fur and other fine particulars in a photograph. Photoshop gave the Refine Edge power a major overhaul, with sufficient improvement and new appearance to make select hair in a picture simple enough for anyone to do!

This tutorial is about How to make selections in hair image and change its background

Here's the transformation for what I am working with. It displays before - after portion of the photograph-

Photoshop refine edge

Step 1:  Open image as a background

Step 2:  Copy background as a background layer and name the file “refine edge”

Step 3:   Select Lasso tool from the tool panel

Step 4:  Draw an outline around the person surface with lasso tool and select the surface

Step 5:  Click “refine edge” from the top menu bar from the Photoshop tool. After opening refine edge select “overlay” to masking the hair surface of the portrait

Step 6:  Drag and move the cursor of the mouse to mask hair surface to make move from the background to separate the hair area

Step 7:   After the masking is done click “new layer “to transfer the masking area on the transparent background

Step 8:   Now we can see that “refine edge copy” is created separately on the layer panel

Step 9:  Select background layer and press ALT+ backspace to apply black color background behind the object

Step 10:   So now you can differentiate the refine edge masking with the new background

This way we can easily change a background with hair surface to a new color background or any other background from another place

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