Need a little help on Masks.

[Levada]

It's actually quite easy. Just make sure that the layer with the image is not locked, add a mask and with the mask active start painting on it with black where you want the background to be removed.
Add a layer underneath this layer with the new preferred background.

[Nerian]

But this guy has hair all over the place , bit of a pain to paint it black , sorry , very new to layer masks and adjustment layers.

[DorisDay]

Couldn't you just use the clone brush? I tend to use it for removing people from photos, or am I getting what you require wrong?

[Levada]

[QUOTE=Nerian]But this guy has hair all over the placeQUOTE]
That doesn't matter, what matters is the background. Some hair can be masked in a matter of seconds, depending on the background. Without seeing an example, it's difficult to advice you, since every situation asks for a different approach or should I say in your case, different tutorials showing different methods.

[-NG-]

Just paint it in the mask, use different opacity values, you can't have more control then that.:shrug:

[Licanin]

Can you post image?

[lutonomy]

You may have better luck using the extract tool, rather then masks. It works very well with complex things that need to be removed from their background. It's under filter -> Extract... It's too long to explain how to use it here, but look it up in help or on the web. Here's a starter tut:

http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/extracting/extract.html

It should be exactly the tool you need. Good luck! :)

[-NG-]

Go in qiuckmask mode and paint over the pixels you want, it's the finest control you can have, extract, magic wand enz enz can get you off with a good start, but fine detail has to be done through painting it, pixel by pixel if needed.

[Nerian]

Thanks for the response , i read a book called 50 fast photoshop 7 techniques and came across this little tool called Magnetic lasso , wasn't what i wanted but it will do. Will try the Extract tool later. Thanks

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