Achal Pashine <achalpashine@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Bob and everybody, > thanks for lots of suggestions. > I have put a jpeg quality source shot at > http://photos.yahoo.com/achalpashine in the album "for photoforum". > The problem area during extraction is the boundary of hair and background, > as you can notice the hair of the subject is very curly as well as have > delicate hair strands (not very visible in jpeg) that stand against the > background. To extract this subject to change the background without > loosing hair details (repeating the question for Emily) is a problem. Hair. Also tree limbs/leaves, in the other case where I often need to do ugly masking like this. They make an *amazing* amount of trouble. About the only thing you can do is get a good approximation from the automatic tools, and then fine-tune by hand. For hours. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
