Cutting out hair

This is for the advanced users, what do you find the best way
to extract backgrounds from photos with fine hairs etc... Please
paste your method, for example some people use the extract tool in
PS, but what can us FW users do that can do a good job ?

Snaz1 wrote:
> This is for the advanced users, what do you find the
best way to extract
> backgrounds from photos with fine hairs etc... Please
paste your method, for
> example some people use the extract tool in PS, but what
can us FW users do
> that can do a good job ?
Look at the following tutorial I wrote. There are ways to
deal with more
complex backgrounds too but using the same basic methods. The
tittorial
explains why using vector masks is the best way to do this
and much
better than deleting any part of your image.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/removing_backgrounds.html
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