hair and fur edges photoshop 2024 Select and Mask

How to cut out hair and fur in Photoshop, with perfect edges. Colin Smith completely explains Select and Mask in this Photoshop Masterclass. Part 1 of 2.
00:00 INTRO
00:34 Cutout, bringing into Select and Mask
01:34 Viewing Modes
02:58 Awareness Modes
03:33 How Select and Mask Works
05:29 Best Way to refine hair selections
07:31 Fixing Jaggies and Smudgies
09:22 Saving selections
10:14 Fixing Smooth Edges
11:13 Combining different refinements
13:17 Fixing Fur
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🤓 Written steps: photoshopcafe.com/how-to-use-select-and-mask-in-photoshop-refine-edges-on-every-cutout/ Part 2 here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJPYkpyQj8mlZtksi=tIZmPlfdTUN25re_

[@scottvoelker5550]

This is actually one of the best tutorials for photoshop. The pace is good and detailed steps are easy to follow and not have to keep going back and replaying. Nice job!😃

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad it helped!

[@josepbel8731]

The best tutorial on Select and Mask I've come across to date !!! Clear and easy to follow explanations step by step !!! A master tutorial, once again. Thx a lot, Colin !!!

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad it was helpful!

[@isabellopez4909]

Another masterful tutorial that makes Photoshop tools easier to understand. This is by far the best I have found on Select and Mask. Thank you!!!

[@TanyaMetaksa]

Thanks, Colin.The concept of using more than 1 mask is a game changer. Thanks! In addition the tip to use the Cloud is very useful.

[@cygilbert9131]

Wow, I finally found the keys to the kingdom of Select and Mask. Thank you, Colin!

[@photoshopcafe]

Fantastic!

[@cliffordsalmon322]

This is the best explanation on Select and Mask I have ever come across. Thanks so much Colin!

[@RFVisionary]

👍🏻 Another excellent tutorial. The precise script of the spoken description makes understanding even easier. Also the special note that this is about HOW the individual settings of the tools work, and not HOW WELL they can do it. "I'll be back." ☺️

[@michaelryan2622]

This is the best tutorial on this kind of masking of the many many I have watched and had given up on. Really demystified select and mask (which is so much like layer modes in its complexity and "insider" like organization of all the sliders etc) Thanks so much.

[@MrFastforwardcoach]

Great explanation!! Can't wait for part 2. Thanks for this one.

[@photoshopcafe]

Coming in a couple of days. Probably Friday

[@raylynch8419]

A great video tutorial. Everything very well explained and easy to follow. Thanks for sharing.

[@photo2000]

outstanding tutorial. to the point, comprehensive and easy to understand

[@DiamondPrintShop]

I followed your instructions, and I finally got it, THANK YOU!!!!

[@johngriffin7071]

Wow, this was great!!! I still struggle with my animal photos. I know this will help. Can’t wait for part 2. Thank you.

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks

[@chasebros4948]

Very nice. An alternate way to do this is to refine just the edges on the body first with the global refinement sliders. Output this refinement to a layer mask and then leave select and mask. Go back in select and mask again and all the sliders will be reset and now you can refine just the edges of the hair. Output the hair refinement to layer mask and it will update your current mask with the hair refinements. The advantage of doing it this way is you end up with only one layer and one mask.

[@photoshopcafe]

If I were to do it this way, I probably would output to a selection the second time and use it to manually paint the mask where I need it. I always prefer flexibility for users in a tutorial, which is why I used 2 masks. But there are many ways to do things in Photoshop.

[@mohsinfareed1797]

Your tutorials have helped me create some of my best work! I'm so grateful for the skills I've learned from you

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks! Glad to hear it

[@shereerabon8551]

Nice! I absolutely love that you have the screen enlarged large enough to see and your pace is perfect for actually following along and comprehending! My instructor told us about you today and I wish he'd known when I first started Photoshop. Thanks!

[@ladybuddy]

thanks Colin! That’s most helpful. Really appreciate.

[@waynemacleod5648]

Awesome technique & awesome explanation - thank you!

[@glen_meyburgh]

Again, another insightful look at PS tools! Thanks Colin 🙂

[@jaimee.campuzanot.2702]

Thank you very much Colin

[@philippedelpierre9431]

Great tutorial! Many thanks

[@Keith80027]

Thanks for showing me how to do something that I have had problems with in the past and spend way to much time getting it right.

[@bala1000mina]

Thank you so much Colin for the informative and helpful tutorial as always! Good luck!

[@jesserodriguezjr508]

Outstanding!!! Way to break it down!!

[@eoslove2022]

Now I understand Select and Mask and not fear using it again.

[@stevejarvis186]

Thanks Colin for a great explanation on this subject. Easy to follow

[@bobkillen8396]

Outstanding

[@sheikhmuhammadadnan3]

Excellent

[@photonsonpixels]

Great tutorial Colin. Thank you!

[@photoshopcafe]

My pleasure!

[@pmoray]

Awesome! Very helpful

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad to hear it!

[@mwschaff]

Great tutorial. It was very helpful and answered so many of my questions and gave me useful tips

[@krishchandran4125]

Wow !! This is super useful !! Just what I was looking for. Thank you, Colin !

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sonjon1000]

Well presented and explained, once again many thanks

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks

[@antoniomaruccia7416]

good, instructive and complete, like a truly competent teacher. thank you very much.

[@ricardo_anderson]

Very well as always. Greetings

[@ironbutterfly13]

Thank you, this really helped refine the edge around an eagles head feathers enabling me to change the colour of the sky

[@michaelfauci8148]

Thank you

[@PerFTNilsson]

Simply your best tutorial yet. Thanks!

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks

[@irhgsy]

Another excellent tutorial. So pleased I signed up, I learn something useful everytime. Thanks.

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad to hear that

[@monztermovies]

Where were you yesterday, I needed this. 🤣

[@photoshopcafe]

Editing this video ;)

[@eddybollen3516]

Wonderful ! Greetings from Belgium.

[@photoshopcafe]

Hi back

[@Just_because998]

Excellent tutorial. Understand much better on how to refine and adjust on a person. However, I got lost on the lion image. Hope, you can elaborate more on how to complete the refinement of the fur in the next video. Thanks again for a great video.

[@jillmcmahonphotography]

Thank you! That is exactly what I have always had problems with - hair, fur, and tree branches. I'm always looking for solutions.

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jmgcg]

I never thought to put them on separate groups, really. It's a fantastic tutorial and the advices here are top,don't do more work then you need and don't use all tools if you don't need. I see people try to do more them they need just to see in the end,o wait against this background nobody will notice that stand of hair i could cut out

[@alexanedda3960]

Bomb.... where I come from, it's 6.32 in the morning. Breakfast done and I start my day, but I start it with a super interesting and super useful video of yours. Greetings from Sardinia

[@photoshopcafe]

Great start to the day

[@milonlet9262]

Part 2 plz 🙏🙏

[@catseyes11]

Thank you! Not sure what is up with the trolls, but it is pretty difficult actually to find great teachers like yourself in the sea of so-called, YT "tutorials" out there- I find most just fly through it super fast, leaving out critical steps, not showing us visually what they're doing, might have annoying music, lengthy intros and self-promoting ads, and sometimes gabbing throughout, or they're just all over the place, (like they have ADD or are on too much coffee lol), making it impossible for someone to truly follow, or learn. Personally, I transcribe good tutorials so I can refer to later as I am in school and always jumping from one program to another, making it difficult for me to really master one program. I can't tell you how many tutorials I started trying to follow and transcribe, only to abandon it because of the aforementioned non-teaching approach. It is actually more rare than not, for someone to be able to teach vs being good at what they do. So just know, I appreciate you and your true teaching ability. Cheers, Cat-

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks! Most of my tutorials have the written steps at PhotoshopCAFE.com so you don’t have to transcribe

[@catseyes11]

@@photoshopcafe That's so great! Personally, I still transcribe, as it helps me understand and retain more in the end. But I love that you offer the complete written steps as well. Cheers, Cat-

[@jasonblake5576]

Great tutorial, I struggle refining hair when taking subject out of a messy background and trying to place it onto a grey background. I just cannot deal with the wispy flyaways. 😢

[@MrFastforwardcoach]

Thanks

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks so much

[@richielambe3674]

legend

[@davidligon6088]

Awesome video and very helpful to me. I do a lot of Milky Way and night photography, and masking the stacked sky with a ground image is always a struggle. I will try some of the techniques from this and the next video. If you have a video on masking ground in a night sky, can you please point me to it?

[@fritsx]

I was just working on the select and mask tool so this tutorial comes in verry handy. Learned allot. I'm having a problem with the tool. When I make a selection of a person and place another colored layer under it, the top layer is a smaller. It looks like the select and mask tools makes the original picture size a few pixels smaller. Any idea?

[@photoshopcafe]

Interesting. That shouldn’t be the case

[@photo2000]

I have a question about Object Selection Tool... there is a tick box option next to Sample All Layers called "Hard Edge".... what does this do??

[@terryp8762]

My slider says opacity not transparency - am I missing something? All else looks the same. Great tutorial by the way. Thank you.

[@terryp8762]

Just worked it out! Thanks

[@photoshopcafe]

Great to hear.

[@FotomakerAcademy]

Hi Colin - If you're working on refining the model's hair (in Select & Mask) - which I thought changes the mode to Object Selec. - how did you get your "Real-time Refinement" checkbox and word in the Select & Mask Properties not to be greyed out? Mine is greyed out. In my UI, I can see the box is checked on, but that line in Select & Mask Properties is greyed out. Yours shows as fully bold and accessible in your video. Thx.

[@photoshopcafe]

I'm not sure, mine wasn't grayed out. Maybe I was using a different tool?

[@graham_T]

Thank you but …what about when the hair or fur is to be selected in an image that is not a plain background?

[@photoshopcafe]

I guess you didn't watch the video, because I answered that before you asked 3:06

[@graham_T]

@@photoshopcafe nope …I surely did but I wanted you to show the information not using a plain background . I know that you said that the purpose was to demonstrate the tools which was why you weren’t using a non plain background . I wanted you to do the demonstration not on a plain background .

[@stalk05]

@@graham_T Most people never do show them on busy backgounds. They all choose Studio quality images on plain backgrounds to "Show you the tools", yet us in the real world have to work with poor quality images and ones with the busiest backgrounds known to man. None of these techniques shown here are even New or revolutionary, but i get your point, as most never show them on a new plain background either, as it will show that the selections are not that great in the 1st place. Most times we have to brush in hairs, use overlays or substitute images, then blend them to get a nice result. The decontaminate colours actually ruins the ends of hairs and make them blocky

[@photoshopcafe]

​@@stalk05 I can't speak for other creators, but my goal in this tutorial is to clearly and simply teach how the tools in Select and Mask work. Cluttering it up with 20 minutes of other techniques doesn't make for a clear tutorial. I have made lots of other tutorials on making selections on difficult backgrounds using appropriate techniques for those tutorials, because that was the focus of those tutorials. It's not that this tutorial is wrong, it's that you are watching the wrong tutorial. :)

[@photoshopcafe]

@@graham_T Gotcha, I have many other tutorials on difficult backgrounds, those will be more useful for your current needs than this tutorial which isn't focused on that topic. This tutorial is about Select and Mask to refine selections that you have already made.

[@SKGOELDELHI]

We often have this problem with smooth hair ....

[@Yannick.D]

would be Great if we just had a tool to refine the selection on the fly with the brush manually instead of going trough these panels.

[@ivan_12345]

Decontaminate colors is the stupidest setting, because it's destructive (just fills the layer). I've asked Adobe on their forum to change that (about two years ago already), but things are still there... P.S. I could post a link to support this idea, but I doubt KZbin allows it in the comments

[@chasebros4948]

Decontaminate colors is destructive so you wouldn’t want to apply it to the original image without making a copy first. Make two copies of the image. The one on bottom will have the subject cut out without decontaminate colors. The one on top will have the subject cut out with decontaminate colors. Throw away the mask on the decontaminate colors layer and then clip it to the bottom layer. Doing it this way might not be ideal but it’s non-destructive.

[@ivan_12345]

@@chasebros4948 that's a bit stupid, isn't it? I'd rather do it manually in a more controlled way.😜 I doubt you know that, but there's about 10 ways to reduce fringing.

[@chasebros4948]

@@ivan_12345 how can you doubt that I know something without knowing my level of experience in Photoshop? I am fully aware there are multiple ways of reducing fringing. There are always multiple ways of solving any specific issue in Photoshop. I was just offering one solution to use decontaminate colors in a non-destructive way.

[@BubbleGendut]

@ivan_12345 what are these 10 ways, be great if you were able to list them.

[@ivan_12345]

@@BubbleGendut ask my opponent first, he claims to be super experienced (perhaps, he knows more 😄)

[@pspk560]

Very nice

[@cliffordsalmon322]

This is the best explanation on Select and Mask I have ever come across. Thanks so much Colin!

[@cliffordsalmon322]

I am using the very latest version of PS Beta and PS CC. In both versions of the applications within the Select and Mask Workspace, Real Time Refinement is greyed out whereas it it selected in the video tutorial. Why is that happening?