Use Photoshop channel mixer and brushes to pull out more hairy pet dogs

Final effect

1, open the file.

2, observation channels can be found, hair is black and white, two diametrically opposite tones, in this case, it is difficult to use a technology to distinguish between them, we can consider each of them to deal with, and finally the processing of the selection after the merger can be. In the passage, the white hairs are clear and relatively easy to select, while brown hairs are difficult to handle in several places. The brown hair on the dog's forehead is close to the hue of the red door, difficult to distinguish, this is a difficult point to deal with; the overall tone of the dog's ears is deeper than the tones of the door, and there is a certain tonal difference between them, but it should also be noted that each side of the ear has a lighter hue than the door groove, They are two other difficulties in this case.

3, copy background layer, perform image----adjust--"channel mixer" command, tick the "monochrome" option, drag the slider left and right to get the grayscale image effect.

4, we first to deal with the hair of the dog's forehead, observe the hair on the forehead can be seen, after the "channel mixer" treatment, the dog's forehead of the background basically into white, the remnants of the use of Brush tool processing can be. Select a soft corner brush tool and set the tool's blending mode to "overlay" in the Tools Options bar, with a transparency of 10%, and use black to smear the hairs on the forehead to deepen the hair. Then smear the background with a white brush to make the background white.

5. Set the blending mode of the brush tool to "normal", increase the opacity of the tool and smear the brown hair on the dog's forehead as black. In the process should be careful not to smear the edge of the hair black, should keep it gray, and retain the necessary tonal excessive. Otherwise, the hair will be very blunt, but also with a residual background.

6, with the rectangular selection of the box tool to select the left side of the intersection with the door cross area. Select the Brush tool, set the blending mode of the tool to "overlay", set the tool's opacity to 20%, apply black in the selection, and deepen the background.

7, with white smear hair, make them become more clear, press the Ctrl+i shortcut key to the selection of the image reversed phase.

8, smear the background and the edge of hair with white. Deselect to revert the brush tool blending mode to normal, with the opacity set to 100% and the background to white. We are dealing with more cumbersome, so we should try to be patient and meticulous operation.

9, the hair inside the white area smear black. Adjust the opacity of the brush tool appropriately, eliminating the traces of the original rectangular selection during processing (the foreground color can be transformed as needed during the operation).

10, the following to deal with the dog on the right side of the hair. Set the blending mode of the brush tool to "overlay", with the opacity set to 40%, with black smear on the edge of the hair. Smear the background with white.

11. Set the blending mode of the tool to "normal" and smear the background as white.

12, press the Ctrl+i shortcut key to the image phase inversion. Press CTRL + A shortcut key to select all, press CTRL + C shortcut to copy the image. Create a new channel, press CTRL + V shortcut to deselect, brown hair selection is finished.

13. The selection of white-haired dogs is much easier to make than brown hair, and we still handle them through the "channel mixer". Hide the background copy layer and get the background copy 2 layer.

14, the implementation of the "Channel Mixer" command.

15, select the Brush tool, set the blending mode of the tool to "overlay", opacity to 40%, with black smear forehead background.

16. Apply a black brush to the background of the neck. Set the blending mode of the brush tool to "normal", with an opacity of 3%, and smear it in black near the edge of the hair, putting it on a faint grey.

17. Handle the white hairs on the right side of the body. Add the blending mode of the brush tool to "overlay", the opacity set to 10%, and the background in black. Smear the inside of the dog's body white, and the body's external production background is black.

18, press CTRL + A shortcut key Select all, press CTRL + C shortcut key copy image. Create a new channel and press the CTRL + V shortcut to paste the copied image into the channel. Press the Ctrl+d shortcut key to cancel the selection, the white hair of the constituency will be completed.

19. Now the brown hair and white hairs of the dog are stored in the "ALPHA1" and "ALPHA2" channels, and we need to merge them into a full constituency. Click to load the channel as a selection button to load the ALPHA2 channel's selection.

20, the implementation of the "Select-Load Selection" command, set the following figure. You get the result of adding the selections in the ALPHA1 and ALPHA2 channels.

21, hide "Layer copy 2" in the Layer palette, alt-click the background layer, convert it to normal layer. Click the Add Layer Mask button to create a layer mask based on the selection, masking the background with the mask.

22, hold down Ctrl-click to create a new Layer button, new layer below the current layer, fill the new layer with blue. On a blue background, it's easier to spot problems in a constituency.

23, click on "Layer 0" mask thumbnail, into the mask state, with the brush tool to decorate the mask, the mask mask hair display.

24. Play the material map. Drag the image into the dog file, and use the Gaussian blur filter to make the appropriate blur for the dog for a more beautiful background.

Final effect: