Extracting Hairy Wisps From a Background

Lauren, July 27, 2003 extracted from background
This has been a long project to try to get wispy hairs isolated from a varied background. I found that using many Photoshop tools finally got the hair as I wanted but I had to sacrifice color. I used a combination of the Magic Wand, tolerance set really low and at contiguous. Then, I worked with the Background Eraser, again tolerance set really low. I did use the Extract Filter a few times, but had very limited success with it. I used the Channel Mixer to get the sepia tone which hides some of the problem with separating the wisps from the background..
Lauren, July 27, 2003 on original background
This is the photo I started with, taken with the new Olympus C5050Z, with a telephoto lens. When I was using the Extract Filter, I was able to capture the fuzziness on my daughter's arm, but capturing and extracting wisps of hair is a whole different story!

Another photo extraction of Lauren which seems more successful can be found here.

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