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Fringe Removal

Color fringe on hair is one of the most difficult things to deal with. A way to avoid it is to have your subject several feet from the background and to light the background separately from your subject. While this isn't perfect, it's a bit better. First I used the Select/Color Range tool in Photoshop CS4 and selected the hair that had the green/cyan tint to it. I move the slides to eliminate as much of the none hair content as I could. Next I when to the Hue/Saturation adjustment and desaturated the green and cyan. This left the hair looking unnaturally grey in some areas so I selected those areas and went to Image/Adjust/Selective Color and chose white and moved the yellow/blue slider towards yellow to put some color back. I alternatively tried the hue/saturation adjustment and chose yellow and increase the saturation. In some areas I used the clone tool or patch tool to make the hair look natural. There is reflection of the brownish/orangeish drape onto the fur. Didn't deal with that. I also slightly lightened the irises of the eyes, but that doesn't show very much. Didn't lighten more because the eyes didn't have much color in them and they would have looked unnatural.


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Judith Barnett23-Feb-2009 14:49
Wow, nice fix Isabel!