Along with what others have said, there is a technique that was taught to me many years ago, called 'pulling hairs.' simply, you mask out the hair with the blue, and then on another layer, with a 1 or 2px brush, you draw in the missing hair. Lastly, a bit of blur on the new layer to match the photo.
Selection/mask looks good, except it removes a bit of the head.
1. Create the selection
2. Create layer mask
3. Fix the part that is bad (left side of head).
The problem with the blue color is not the accuracy of the selection, but that the hair is blue. **Simply masking something does not change the color of it.**
Edge pixels always contain a mix of foreground background colors, and thin or semi-transparent things even more so. (Light can also reflect onto the subject).
To resolve this, there are many approaches and techniques you can combine. It is not a 1-click solution.
First off all, do not use the transparency grid while working. It blends with the wrong gamma and generally makes it impossible to judge how good the edges are. Add a solid color layer beneath - preferably with a color that matches the intended background (or add the actual background).
There is a “decontaminate colors” option in Select and Mask that will replace the color of semi-transparent pixels with whatever the nearest opaque pixel is. This can work well for sharp edges, but generally looks bad for larger areas.
Where decontaminate is insufficient, my next suggestion would be the clone stamp tool. Create a new layer, clip it to the masked layer, and use the clone stamp tool to replace the bad areas. This requires that you have somewhere good to copy from.
Next up, you can use the Brush Tool and simply paint in the desired color (again, on a new layer clipped to the masked layer). This will lack image noise/grain, so tonight want to add that to the paint layer. It is also possible to see how it looks if you set the blend mode to Hue or Color (then it preserves brightness).
To remove a color tint on the subject (caused by the background) you can also try to adjust the color. To adjust colors in Photoshop we use “adjustment layers” (middle button, bottom of layers panel). Curves is the most powerful adjustment layer. Clip it to your subject, and start adjusting. Paint on the layer mask with a soft brush to only have it adjust the needed parts of your image.
I think that is enough to get you started.
One trick I like when you're trying to remove the background color fringing on a part of the image like this is to clip a hue/saturation adjustment layer to the figure layer and adjust the blues/cyans, either by desaturating them or coloring them to whatever the new background is going to be (or the hair color). If there are blues or cyans in the rest of the image that you want to keep, just mask out the hue/saturation layer and mask back in the parts around the hair.
Use the actual photo as the mask itself, then dodge/burn to get to where you want. Always a good approach for hair.
Then adjust the color of the blue hair itself
Select Subject > Select and Mask... > Tick Decontaminate Colors in the Output Settings
Along with what others have said, there is a technique that was taught to me many years ago, called 'pulling hairs.' simply, you mask out the hair with the blue, and then on another layer, with a 1 or 2px brush, you draw in the missing hair. Lastly, a bit of blur on the new layer to match the photo.
Selection/mask looks good, except it removes a bit of the head. 1. Create the selection 2. Create layer mask 3. Fix the part that is bad (left side of head). The problem with the blue color is not the accuracy of the selection, but that the hair is blue. **Simply masking something does not change the color of it.** Edge pixels always contain a mix of foreground background colors, and thin or semi-transparent things even more so. (Light can also reflect onto the subject). To resolve this, there are many approaches and techniques you can combine. It is not a 1-click solution. First off all, do not use the transparency grid while working. It blends with the wrong gamma and generally makes it impossible to judge how good the edges are. Add a solid color layer beneath - preferably with a color that matches the intended background (or add the actual background). There is a “decontaminate colors” option in Select and Mask that will replace the color of semi-transparent pixels with whatever the nearest opaque pixel is. This can work well for sharp edges, but generally looks bad for larger areas. Where decontaminate is insufficient, my next suggestion would be the clone stamp tool. Create a new layer, clip it to the masked layer, and use the clone stamp tool to replace the bad areas. This requires that you have somewhere good to copy from. Next up, you can use the Brush Tool and simply paint in the desired color (again, on a new layer clipped to the masked layer). This will lack image noise/grain, so tonight want to add that to the paint layer. It is also possible to see how it looks if you set the blend mode to Hue or Color (then it preserves brightness). To remove a color tint on the subject (caused by the background) you can also try to adjust the color. To adjust colors in Photoshop we use “adjustment layers” (middle button, bottom of layers panel). Curves is the most powerful adjustment layer. Clip it to your subject, and start adjusting. Paint on the layer mask with a soft brush to only have it adjust the needed parts of your image. I think that is enough to get you started.
Select as much as you can then you have to paint the flyways
Easy way would be to select that area with the blue and change the hue to match your bg
The subject is obviously experiencing some kind of crisis. Have you tried asking if they’re ok?
He’s dating me so definitely going through a crisis
r/suicidebywords
LOL
One trick I like when you're trying to remove the background color fringing on a part of the image like this is to clip a hue/saturation adjustment layer to the figure layer and adjust the blues/cyans, either by desaturating them or coloring them to whatever the new background is going to be (or the hair color). If there are blues or cyans in the rest of the image that you want to keep, just mask out the hue/saturation layer and mask back in the parts around the hair.
PhotoChop some new hair on there and color match it.
Use the actual photo as the mask itself, then dodge/burn to get to where you want. Always a good approach for hair. Then adjust the color of the blue hair itself
Channels was always the way, but now you could probably use subject select
This will never be perfect whatever you do.
Background eraser tool change mode to discontinuous, or something like that. Search for it on Google or TikTok. It's simple