Photoshop Quick Tip: Cut Out Subject from Background in 3 Easy Steps - Refine Hair masking Tutorial

In this photoshop photo editing tutorial, learn how to use refine edge tool to cut out subject with lot of hair in just 3 easy steps.
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How to Cutout subject from background in photoshop.

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Grab the Quick Selection Tool and select the model.

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Now refine the selection using refine edge tool. for CC 2017 version Hold shift and click on select and mask.

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And you will see the Refine Edge window.

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Now we will want to have a look at our mask radius, so tick this "Show Radius" checkbox.

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if you increase the "Radius" value sightly, you will see a outline appearing - that's the edge of our mask.

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Rest of the mask look fine, except the hair area.

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we can use the "Refine Radius Tool" to refine the hair part.

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Use brush to paint around the outside of the hair part, you will see the hair starting to appear nicely.

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Optional: Enable "Decontaminate Colors" option to remove background colors from the hair.

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Click on "Ok". Photoshop creates a new layer automatically with refine mask.

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Let bring some more hair strands.

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Duplicate background copy layer.

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Select layer mask and add apply layer mask command.

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then go to layer - matting - remove white matte to add some hair details.

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Now add inverted layer mask, hold ALT or OPT key and click on mask icon.

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Take the soft brush and paint with white on hair.

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Merge top both layers and save as .png.

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