I suck at rendering... any tips?

[Giantbob]

topic -.- sigh

[Cancerous]

Pen tool
Lots of anchors (when you left click it creates an anchor) around the edges of what you want to render
Right click -> Make selection
'M' key (will switch to marquee tool)
Right click -> Select inverse
Delete

Don't feather it.

It's best if you cut out smaller pieces rather than try to do the whole image at once.

[inFluenZa]

There is actually a lot of ways to do this what version of PS you got?

[Giantbob]

cs5

i used the pen tool now - and it works great

[inFluenZa]

Yeah it works pretty good,depending on the difficulty of the render i use various methods ones with a lot of hair or curves i use the pen tool because its the cleanest,for easier ones i use the extract method or masking method

[Cancerous]

[inFluenZa]

ya you can render hair really well with the pen tool once you get good with it,or you can even use the lasso

[HeyNaNa]

Lmk I can do some