Working on a hi-res cover, and have a very hairy model. I'm in the process of giving the gal a new jawline, but before I get much further, I really could use some help removing the hair without bluring.... (unretouhced jawline-left image).
Thanks in advance for the help!
~Nancy~


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Nan, I ran the Noiseware plugin in PS on the image in the default settings. It smoothed away the hair nicely. Then I found that by backing off the Luminance Slider in the Noise Reduction setting box, there was tremendous finite control that adds the hair back in if you like. The result at this setting looked good to me but the lattitude is there for more or less smoothing. There was still a bit of white color right near the ear but a quick brush ob\ver it with surrounding skin color and a layer set to Color blend mode got did the trick.
Regards, Murray

not sure this will help I am kinda blind most of the time
i duplicated the original layer twice
selected the first layer and used the arrow keys to move it down 1 pixel and to the left 1 pixel set blending mode to darken.
selected the second layer and moved it up 1 pixel and to the right 1 pixel set blending mode to lighten

This was real quick so don't look at the edges :) but I'll post the steps if it's something you'd be interested in trying ......

Beth

Geez Beth...that's great. I would be interested in your steps if no-one else is! ;)

Thanks Ziaphra.... I posted that at 4:20am and was just too tired at the time... here are the steps for PS:

A. Ctrl +J to duplicate background (next 4 steps will create a separate file for you to use as your pattern with the Healing Tool set to Pattern)

1. File > New and create a custom file of 64px X 64px
2. Edit > Fill and use 50% gray
3. Filter > Artistic > Film Grain with Grain setting of 1 & Intensity of 5 depending on existing grain of picture
4. Select > All, Edit > Define Pattern (name it something you'll remember.... say.... um... 'Skin')

B. Go back to your photo and activate the Healing Brush & set source to Pattern (choose 'Skin') & brush blend to Screen

C. Using large brush, paint over all the skin areas.... paint the heck out of it cuz you're going to adjust the opacity of this layer anyway..... maybe to 75%

D. Ctrl+J this retouched layer, change the Healing Brush to Multiply and use same pattern to refine the face... when done adj. the opacity of this layer, too....

You can even go over wrinkles! This is Katrin Eismann's 'Barbie Doll Skin' formula....

Beth

Unimatrix001...... Great job especially since it looks so natural.

Beth

Thanx hun. :)

:) You're welcome :)

oxoxo
Beth

thank you solitear, was a very fast fix. didnt take to long to do. it can be made to look better with more time and patience.

Thank you all for your help. Each one is great. And I really appreciate the help!!!
~Nancy~

Thanks Ziaphra.... I posted that at 4:20am and was just too tired at the time... here are the steps for Photoshop:

You can even go over wrinkles! This is Katrin Eismann's 'Barbie Doll Skin' formula....

Beth

in the film grain settings, what should the "highlight area" be set to?......when i tried this on a hi-res image, the color of the skin shifted, are you making a color correction after you retouch the skin?...i also noticed this technique doesn't work so well in cmyk, when i tried it with the image in RGB it looked much better but not quite as well as the samples posted on this thread...

Hi there

I did the something like Beth but in a different way.

I duplicated the background
Set duplicates blend mode to screen... then used gaussian blur to blur away the hair... this brightened the picture so I duplicated the screen layer and changed its mode to multiply and adjusted opacities as needed... the screen and multiply work the same way as beth.

I then merged the screen and multiply layer with another duplicate of the background. Duplicated this layer changed the top layers mode to darken.

Then back on the layer below I slowly reduced opacity until I was happy with the result.

Butch

why did the jawline change?

Hi Nanls,

What worries me about fixing one part of the image is that it can create other parts to fix.

Something that is well worth trying is Eddie Tapp's 'Dream Glow Pro 1' You can find it here http://www.photoworkshop.com/adobe/softwarecinema/index.html

Look for Eddie Tapp in the left hand column and click, then in the right hand column go down to Pro Techniques II and click that. There are three short makeovers and I recommend watching them all.

Hi Pixelzombie..... I was like you about the 'Highlight' setting and, since there was no mention of it's setting in Katrin's book, I left it at '0'.

I've never tried this using CMYK or on photos higher than a 300 resolution ... the 'after' picture below has had nothing done to it other than this healing brush method.... nothing to color, levels, etc...

I just tried this out for the peach fuzz removal and don't normally use this for skin but sometime might, especially if I made a larger grained brush to use with the smaller grained one..... I don't know..... could be OK....:)

Beth