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i wanted to know how i could edit a picture of a person and take out the background without messing up their hair. know what i mean? like if u look at a picture of a person sometimes you can kinda see the background through their hair. well i want to get rid of the background u see through the hair. id prefer not to use the erase tool,magic wand or the pen tool cuz that messes up the persons hair. is there any other way? like some kind of mask tool or something?

for specific things like thatthe magnetic lasso is pretty handybut it gets really tediouslike ur super zoomed inand u need to click on every turni dunno if u'll want to use thatalso u can cuz it out so that it looks messyand with the"spot healing brush tool"the one that looks like a band-aidzoom in really closemake the brush super smalland u can clean out the background u dont wantthe spot healer is suppose to erase somethingon a detailed picture without erasing itlike the eraserL=hope that helpsthe bandaid one is really helpful!

Try this tutorial:http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop/defringing_hair