DGMPhotography
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I guess I'm confused. Even with the new refine edge tools in PS it is a job and takes time to do it right. So why are you finding the need to mask? I've always been a believer in work smarter not harder. Pre-planning is something that could save you a tremendous amount of time. If you know you're going "not" going to use the background, going with a chroma key background will save you time later in the masking. Even better, pre-planning your background for the final shot would prevent masking at all.
Masking out the background opens the image up to many different options as to what you could use for a background. It also saves one from having to buy a number of expensive backdrops. Yes it takes time, but I think that time is worthwhile for what you get.
What Dan said ^
Also, "chroma key" backdrops suck for photography. Unless you get the high end ones. Green screens reflect a ton of green light onto the model, especially if you don't have a lot of space to work with. I just use a plain gray backdrop and mask from there. Chroma key backdrops are better for video work.
And Derrel, that sounds like exactly what I need to do.
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