A common problem of GOO'ing heads is that hair detail is lost, particularly around the edges. This is OK if you are wanting a conehead look, but Tal's wirey hair was too good to waste!

We didn't bother removing the background in Photoshop prior to the GOO'ing. Often it's much easier after GOO'ing (because the ConeHead effect destroys fine detail edges like hair that is hard to drop out).

Tal was suffering from ConeHead-itis so we lifted just the edges of his hair from the original image (left and right layers below) and transformed them to fit neatly over the edges of the GOO'd image.

Next we roughly removed the background from the GOO'd image. Because we're eager beavers we used a Layer Mask. Layer Masks are your friend because they preserve image data.

We saved a copy of the work in progress and merged our borrowed anti-ConeHead hair layers with the GOO'd layer.

Next we used Photoshop 5.5's new 'Background Eraser' tool at it's default settings to remove the bulk of the background. Because of the high level of contrast between the hair and the background it did a pretty good job.

We introduced a temporary colored layer to make any background pixels we missed stand out. A few seconds with the eraser and it was looking very schmick.

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