Using the Selection Brush and Making Selection the Non-traditional Way ?

[augustya]

I was watching one YouTube video which was about using the selecting brush and the question was what do you do when your main (Foreground) picture is slightly blur and the background is also blur and the foreground and background image colour is kind of same.

 

So what he is saying is, if you go through the traditional way of first make the selection and then refine, your refine tool will not do a very neat and clean job, there will be a lot of cleaning and tidying up things that you will have to do by going backwards and forwards. What he suggested was instead after making the initial selection when in refine just keep selection and then say apply and then when you come out of refine selection, then add a mask and then do a alt click on your mouse and your mask will show you the same black and white picture for you to work on it and do some changing and tidying up things. As you see in refine.

 

But my question is if you are selecting, making a selection of a person and he has hair which is all over because of wind blowing and when you need to select different hair strands then what do you do ? in that case do you not need the refine brush ?

 

YouTube Video for reference - https://youtu.be/asB45IXGmQw

 

[Wosven]

Depending of the hair, I would try a simpler Pen tool selection, or instead of trying to select them, trying to modify the background color to suit the one I want to use on the larger parts.

You can also look at the channels, either in RVB or CMYK mode, perhaps one of them can help (for example, a blue sky won't have yellow in CMYK, and can help select the sky on a landscape).

Or simply, some photos aren't usable for such type of selections, and it's faster to ask for another one.

[augustya]

1 minute ago, Wosven said:

Depending of the hair, I would try a simpler Pen tool selection, or instead of trying to select them, trying to modify the background color to suit the one I want to use on the larger parts.

You can also look at the channels, either in RVB or CMYK mode, perhaps one of them can help (for example, a blue sky won't have yellow in CMYK, and can help select the sky on a landscape).

Or simply, some photos aren't usable for such type of selections, and it's faster to ask for another one.

So in short what you are saying is, the method Olivio is suggesting to use in his Video, is not and cannot be applied to all forms of photo and selection.

[Wosven]

Without looking at your image, it's impossible to say. 

For some portrait, it'll be easier too search for a portrait with similar hairs on a white or black background, to select from, and use the selection or even part of the hairs to get a good result, since only the ones knowing the picture will know the difference (looking at the channels can provide this "already easy to select" option... or not).