Cool method! I did something like this recently where I Photoshopped two bottles onto the sand of a beach scene. I wanted the bottles to look like they had some sand stuck on the bottom outside of them and was finding it difficult until I decided to use a grain brush and paint on the bottom of the mask I used for the bottle to let some sand texture from the background come through. It worked great!
Copy the original layer first just in case, but then make the sweater larger using the clone tool a little beyond where your fuzziness will be. The fuzzy mask will then only expose a little of that cloned area and it will be sweater colored. However, if it is back-lit, it is normal for fine threads to look much lighter.
This fuzzy brush is excellent, however I do have a question if I may. If your subjects sweater is Blue for example and the original backdrop is Green, when I use the fuzzy brush with White as my foreground colour as suggested, the fuzzy bits paint the colour of the original background = Green. How can I make the fuzzy bits Blue when I brush them on the mask? Would very much appreciate your help, Michael
What does it say about me that I nearly leapt for joy when Aaron said "The answer is NOT to use the pen tool"? I just can't get the hang of the pen tool, no matter how many times I try.
I hated the pen tool when I first started using it but now it's one of my main tools for creating path libraries. There is a pen tool lesson on PHLEARN that is great. It just takes practice.
@@cleb6846 Thanks for reminding me about the PHLEARN pen tool lesson. I think I've tried a couple of those without much success. It might be that I just need to practice more, like you said.
I used to struggle a lot with it but I practiced a little each day and now it’s nothing for me, so now I’m working on improving my selections because that’s important too.
@@cleb6846 take plenty of breaks! 😁 I take breaks if I feel like my eyes are getting strained or I’m getting mentally tired from doing the designs on the computer. I think they have blue light glasses 👓 or a blue light coating for glasses that help with eye strain also. 👓
your teachings are very well done but WAY TOO FAST for beginners to keep up. It is hard as H---- to understand the demonstrator with the fast talking and the too quick disappearing pop ups on the lower left. I'm not trying to criticize. I"m trying to see if you have any targeted tutorials that are geared to beginners and slow learners who are not as computer savvy. Thanks.
Hey how come when I cut out something then paste it to another picture, there are more surrounding things that show up rather than what I actually cut out?
This is a great method Aaron, I use this quite often to bring back detail, especially for hair. Works great. If I'm cutting hair out, I'll use channels and create brushes from the subject's hair and use them to bring back the lighter hair strands in the mask. You can also use dodge and burn to bring some details back too
This was the exact method I recently saw on another video, except that guy used the dodge and burn tool on the channel to really separate the subject from the background.
What if you did that thing with blue channel at first and then with higher contrast between highlights and shadows do that select object? Wouldnt it make better selection of hair and sweater so you would not need to paint it with that custom brush etc?
Ola professor Aaron, sou Wagner aqui do Brasil. Sou seu fã e do seus trabalho. Sensacional todas as suas dica. Acompanho o seu canal a muito tempo, a maioria do que eu sei hoje aprende aqui no canal. Muito obrigado por passar todo esse conhecimento e parabéns pelo seu trabalho....
I always enjoy your videos. The second method is cool. However, the first method seems flawed. Since the "hairball brush" is a mask, it will let through the background. In your example, the sweater is gray and the background is grayish, so the results look OK. But what if the sweater was dark and the background light? The light background would appear in the cutout. Am I missing something?
Hi, I've come across the same problem each time the background's color or luminosoity is different of that of the cloth and rather than modify the mask I think it's better to create a new layer UNDER the subject's one and picking the color of the garment, paint with that nice brush ( other "plus" of the process, it's not destructive of the mask!)
Great tutorial, Aaron, but it sounds better to say “the sweater”, not “your sweater”, and “the hair” and not “my hair”. No one would care about this in a casual conversation, but you are a professional presenter and it ought to be done correctly.
