Easy mask

[Creativesnaps]

A quick and easy mask to keep even the smallest hair when superimposing a textured background. IT ONLY WORKS ON DARK BACKGROUNDS LIKE GREY AND BLACK.

 

1. Open your image and duplicate it.  (i always duplicate even though i may not have to at times.)

2. Open your texture image and drag it to the image you are editing.

3. Set the layer of the texture to softlight.

4. Add a mask to the texture layer.

5. Select a soft brush.

6. Paint on the mask of the texture layer with black and paint out the texture from the subject.

 

You will then have to do level,curve and sometime colour adjustments to the texture layer ONLY (i won't go into that though as i am getting off track) to make it fit the image better. I haven't done it with this as i want the mask to stand out better.

 

Its as easy as that.  Layer options are your friend if you know how to use them.  

Hope you like it and saves you time in the future with having to do complicated masks.

 

 

 

Here is a B&A i did a while back using the above.

 

 

 

 

 

[Creativesnaps]

Here is a before and after with the above used.  Its not my best edit as its one of my early ones.