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Originally Posted by Mutt
i'm pretty good at doing cutouts but wispy hair is tough if the background color(s) are much different than the natural hair color - if you don't include some of the wispy flyaway hair a cutout looks cheesy.
I watched a tutorial on Model Mayhem by a professional retoucher on masking hair - he has amazing techniques i've never thought of but he also said the last job he did took him 2 full days of work to do.
I use VertusTech Fluid Mask plugin - it's an amazing tool if you master it and for easy to medium difficult cutouts it's great for anybody.
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I think a lot of people have their own technique - some have developed whatever works best for them.
I still prefer manual cloning from one frame to another...it's time-consuming and tedious and requires a very steady hand (and pen tablet - I use a Wacom Intuos4) - but the final results are flawless and perfectly realistic, even with wispy hair.
But you're right about it being a bitch when the background color is drastically different from the model hair. That can get incredibly time consuming, sometimes near impossible.