Is it possible to get decent results without masking? We have no luck so far.. usually PS mixes up the back and the front end of an object and creates a very "interesting" object..
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The best results are masking 100% of the time, you won't get any color bleed when you come to create your texture. If you use photoshop to mask, you should be able to to do each image manually in about 30secs using good techniques for a simple head [if this works practically for the volume of photos you're going to take obv
]. Auto masking using a background is ok but not great: think of the magic wand in photoshop the results are about the same. If you have a different colored background it improves things but then you'll get that color reflected into your subject which you may not want. Hope this helps.
