Image extraction can be a daunting task when dealing with complex shapes. Bad retouching can mess up your whole image, for example when you try to extract some hair to take one person out of a picture. With the tutorials shared in this article, you will learn how to make this work a bit less frustrating.

1. Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tutorials – Extract Complex Shapes

This Adobe Photoshop CS3 tutorial guides you on how to extract a model’s hair with the help of pen tool. Well, after this you can extract the hair from any human rather than just the model. Click here for the step-to-step instruction.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tutorials – Extract Complex Shapes

2. Extracting Backgrounds

This tutorial shows you how to use the extract tool in Photoshop to make a mask for detailed hair in best way. Get this tutorial here.

Extracting Backgrounds

3. How To Remove Background Around Lots Of Hair Photoshop

This is a YouTube video tutorial that teaches you how to remove background around lots of hair by using the background eraser. Watch the video tutorial here.

How To Remove Background Around Lots Of Hair Photoshop

4. Adobe Photoshop CS5 Cutting out a Image from the background

This is another pretty easy YouTube video tutorial on image extract where you will learn how to cut out someone or something out of an image and insert it in another image. Watch it here.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Cutting out a Image from the background

5. Removing a Picture from it’s Background Photoshop Tutorial

Learn how to replace the background or make it transparent by using the extract tool in Photoshop by clicking here.

Removing a Picture from it’s Background Photoshop Tutorial

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