Stop Fighting With Hair Selections — Here's the Photoshop Trick That Actually Works

Stop Fighting With Hair Selections — Here's the Photoshop Trick That Actually Works

There’s a specific kind of frustration that comes from spending an hour manually tracing flyaway hair with the Lasso tool, zoomed in at 400%, one pixel at a time, only to zoom back out and realize it still looks like your subject is wearing a helmet made of jagged edges. I’ve been there more times than I want to admit. Early in my freelance days I’d deliver composites where the hair looked painted on, and I’d just… hope the client didn’t notice.