Masking Out Blonde Hair On Dark/Noisy Green Background?

[Gotta Dance]

Hi Everybody,

I believe it's relatively known in video circles that trying to key out blonde hair on a green screen can be pretty tricky as the color blonde neighbors green in the color spectrum.

In Photoshop, I'm trying to use the refine edge tools for an image with a dark noisy green background, but they eat everything and all I can seem to achieve is a chewy mess. Does anybody have any techniques for this kind of scenario?

[Mylenium · Accepted solution]

There's no contrast in your image and any technique you can use will involve manual masking/ selections/ painting. You can get a slightly more contrasty version by using Image --> Calculations with modes like Difference and Divide to generate a custom channel as the basis for a layer mask/ matte, but even that will require heavy treatment with additional adjustments. There's just not enough distinctiveness in your source image and in fact the red and green channel nearly cancel each other out when playing around with this.

Mylenium

[Gotta Dance]

Cool, cuz I pretty much was like, forget this, I'm jut going to crease mask this. The tools couldn't get a read on it so I thought the best option was just omit the whole thing entirely. Turned out to be the right answer. Thanks!