This is a new problem that i am facing today, i just edited this pic and now i cant remove the gray stuff behind the girl's hair. I use PS CS2, tried many tutorials and used the pen tool, extract tool and all but nothing helped. Please help me!

This is the edit i did:-


here's the og file of the girl:-
http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&docid=yWMI4bGCAI9xjM&tbnid=QJCKz15uLga7NM:&ved=0CAUQjBwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desktopwallpapers4.me%2Fwallpapers%2Fmusic%2F1920x1200%2F1%2F10151-hip-hop-dancer-1920x1200-music-wallpaper.jpg&ei=5704UcuiDIyXmQXQsYDQCg&psig=AFQjCNFADu4ztKMfVNxsjbwKFqVIcu4Jlg&ust=1362759527234626

simple solution...
make a new layer and erase the hair and redraw and/or use smudge tool to bring it back to where it should be...

oh..will try that for sure..thanks!

Hi Sohiness!

I'll try to post a good tut on your thread later tonight.
Not so simple... so I'll try to make it clear and comprehensible.
Most of tutorials on the web are crap... that's amazing!

Here's my tutorial:

Step 1: Erase all hair
Step 2: Put a helmet on her head

Done and done. Can a mod add this to the tutorial section of the site?

lol

First i make the photo black and white in a new layer, by adjusting the colour bars in b&w option, till all the interest area become black-gray and the none interest white.
I select all the fixed b&w and choose "copy", then i make a mask window at a copy of the original photo. alt+left click on the mask channel, then paste and alt+left click again.
sorry about my english

You created a great image Sohiness. And when you extract the hair with Clafs new tutorial or the way you did it, you can work around your current problem by using colour directly on a copy of the hair you have extracted. If you look at the original image, you see that the hair colour is different at the ends. Try using the background and the red glow that you used in the background to light up the hair ends, they would pick up on that light as well if the picture was taken like that.

http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/10043974/2/stock-photo-10043974-disco-dancing.jpg

The photo in the link is a bit over the top back light, but it does show you how hair works in light.

the original

I don't mind to be an idiot, as long as I can have fun.

Where´s that tutorial Claf promised? huh huh huh?

Cringer already covered it, so he didn't have to bother.

It's coming! I promise...
Just that I'm crazily busy... 7 days a week and nights for the last 2 weeks. I thought having a break last week-end...