JACQUI JAY GRAFTON PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE
Today I’ve been working with the remove background tool in Photoshop. I want to use this photograph of Devonn on the front cover of Ashes on the Tongue, due for publication around Easter time. I was having great difficulty in separating her hair from the black background and was on the verge of giving up when I attended a Zoom lecture last night at Nottingham & Notts Photographic Society where John Bermingham drew my attention to this neat little tool.
This is a quick and dirty practice run on a very low res photograph but it has encouraged me enormously. That’s the trouble with Photoshop, it’s so bloody enormous that the answer to a problem can be right under your nose and you don’t know it. Move the slider to see the results.
This original painting, Tirkane Road, Maghera, is another image I am using for the Ashes on the Tongue cover and the reason why I was so anxious to separate Devonn’s hair from the background.
It’s by George A Gourley, an Irish artist, who has given me permission to use it. I am delighted because it has just the right feel for the era I am writing about.
It’s a great tool to use with hair. You set yourself a real challenge with separating her hair from the black background though! Great picture!
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Thanks, Stuart. I’ll practice a bit more before I tackle the high res version.
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Which tool is it that you used as you dont say in the post?
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Hi, it’s the remove background tool. You can find it in Properties above the unlocked layer you want to work on.
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Thanks just looked at that – I like it.
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