# Cutting out around hair **URL:** \ **Category:** design\ **Created:** [August 19, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-around-hair/28819 "2003-08-19T00:45:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yeldarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/51bf81/32.png) [@Yeldarb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Yeldarb)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-around-hair/28819/1 "2003-08-19T00:45:40Z")
what’s the easiest way to cut out the background around long hair blowing in the wind? i’m trying to get a girl’s picture out, and put it in with a new background. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-around-hair/28819/2 "2003-08-19T00:47:46Z")
Eraser tool. IT is all i every use to crop. I have yet to find a easy way to crop out hair so u jsut have to zoom in and attack with Eraser. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-around-hair/28819/3 "2003-08-19T01:01:27Z")
i’ve tried this, but the problem is that the hair always gets screwed up, it looks antialiased into the background, and so to get out the background, i have to cut out the hair ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-around-hair/28819/4 "2003-08-19T14:45:51Z")
use the extract tool It works great for stuff lke hair…play with the settings. You can go around with a big brush then sbutract areas that over lap…Ideal tool for your purpose ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-around-hair/28819/5 "2003-08-19T15:02:47Z")
i never got the extract tool, it was good for grunge but that was if for me cause teh edges always turn out fuzzy. :-\ otherwise there isnt an easy way, you just got to either use the lasso or something to select it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-around-hair/28819/6 "2003-08-19T15:19:41Z")
you have to play wit your setting dippy and sometimes use the erase tool within extract to remove pieces of your selection. I use it to extract fine details just takes a lil getting used to. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-around-hair/28819/7 "2003-08-19T15:44:14Z")
when /if i ever get to sit at my PC (my bro plays wc3 24/7) i will fool with it. its really good for grunge still though :thumb: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-around-hair/28819/8 "2003-08-19T18:44:36Z")
3d-iva is right - extract tool is the one only thing for hair - because croping around hair is fastidious and won’t look good (you’ll either have no hair or some of the background left) i’ve been doing a poster for a play (btw i’ll be posting a thread in the D&D section soon) with a photograph of a girl and had to cut her hair, i used the extract tool: ![](http://upstage.free.fr/comicp/a.jpg) after the extraction: ![](http://upstage.free.fr/comicp/b.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-around-hair/28819/9 "2003-08-19T19:01:08Z")
whoa, that looks good! i still couldnt get it right… oh well… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-around-hair/28819/10 "2003-08-20T01:19:23Z")
yep right on the money MLK…hey yeldarb there is a tut in the help files of ps I believe start there. It really is not that hard to do. Just gotta get used to the tool. If you wanna post your image I may be able to do it for you if you get really stuck but I would prefer you learn it…You know the whole teach a man to fish…blah blah blah ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cutting-out-around-hair/28819/11 "2003-08-20T02:34:18Z")
i tried again, not looking so good… some areas look great, but then others get all jagged and stuff so i have to start over ☹ thats ok 3d-iva, i didn’t need the picture for anything really, i was just messing around, and wanted to learn how to do something new 🙂 thanks for trying to help guys