How to remove the person behind the subject's hair

Hello world

Can someone give advice on how I could remove the person in the background behind the hair in this picture.

I was able to get quite close by completely removing his head & hair (see second photo for my best try) using edge mask tool refine, but I feel there must be way to make this look much better.

I've been Googling trying to find different ways to do this and come across various options I've tried, but nothing he gets professional-looking, I hope.

Anyone has any advice on how to change the background person without damaging the foreground object and his hair?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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Hello

The key to this is a high quality of the baby mask. You probably already know that hiding details of beautiful hair is quite difficult, and in this case is crucial because the hair is at the center of the image. I posted what I did below. If you look at it full size, rather in the preview, you can see most of the details of hair gets deductions. The procedure is complicated to explain in detail, but you must learn to use channels to make masks. In this case, the Red layer had good contrast between the background and the baby. Essentially, you use levels or curves to darken the background and clear up the baby. I can't pretend that it is easy to clean the original grayscale mask. You need to use the dodging and burning and understand how to use the paint mode of overlay to delete the semi-transparent pixels, but its more a matter of being patient and learning the techniques rather than to be a fantastic artist. Once you have done this, you can use refine edge or improve the mask to make it better, but even then the hairs will be always missing - they took after that you treated the person in the background.

So in the background, that's how I approached it. When the hidden child, you have actually the child isolated on its own layer, so you can literally just not erase any trace of the person in the background using the Eraser tool. This will create holes in the bottom that needs to be filled. You can try the cloning in the spaces, but I have a selection of areas of the existing background with the same color and texture of the area to be patched and copy the selection into a new layer. You can then use the tool of transformation to rotate and selection to adapt to the scale. Finally, you put a black layer on the layer mask and physically paint on the mask with a light and soft white brush. You will find that it will mix not perfectly, but if you apply a Gaussian blur to the image, not the mask he will mix.

Finally, treat you every hair on the baby's head. You need only worry the hair where was the person in the background. In the image below the fine hairs on the left comes from the image original because the person behind doesn't interfere with that, but the hair in the Middle didn't need to be specially created a mask fine details. What I mean by that is a small mask made especially for this small part of the image and for that I used the range of colors, refined to the edge, copied into a new layer and applied a black layer mask. As most of the background of this small secondary image is black, you can use the layer screen mode as it ignores black. Once you have done this, you can just paint the details of fine hair on the image. I took the liberty of removing the color cast, but appreciate you might intend to keep it for artistic effect.

All in all quite complicated if you want a reasonably photo-realistic effect. It took me about 30 minutes to do this, but I did a lot before masking. If you are fairly new to Photoshop, it will probably take longer. Unfortunately, she does take on some of the more complex aspects of the program, but as I said takes a little learning but is not rocket science to do ultimately.

Hope that helps a bit

Terri

Tags: Photoshop

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