At 2005-06-18, 04:03:06 David Dyer-Bennet (dd-b@xxxxxxxx) wrote: >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/> > >. Achal, have you considered that in a practical sense, _nobody_ would remember individual strands of hair? I understand that you can't chop off whole clumps of it, but 'fly-away' strands of hair can probably be masked out without in any meaninful way affecting the portrait. Best regards, Deen 2005-06-18 10:00:31
