Hairy situation ( ha ha )

[shizam1]

So, I've gotten a lot better at skin retouching, but I can never figure out how to get rid of hair that goes onto skin! If it's a strand or two, I can do clone or heal without too much difficulty, but whenever there is too much of it, like in the image below around her chin, I just can't seem to find a solution that works.

Healing tool smears, clone tool doesn't look right. Frequency separation doesn't do much for me either.

I usually have the same problem for large amounts of hair that go onto a background that is changing in lightness, but for that I usually make a new background that is very similar, and mask out the hair to reveal the new background.

Any tips/advice?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shizam1...n/photostream/

[KTG]

I have had good luck with doing a split frequency technique and cloning on the high frequency layer in darken or lighten blending modes.

k

[shizam1]

Originally Posted by KTG

I have had good luck with doing a split frequency technique and cloning on the high frequency layer in darken or lighten blending modes.

k

Sounds like a good idea, I'll give that a shot tonight and hopefully magic will happen!

Thanks!

[crimper]

After using the clone tool (or healing brush), try adding a bit of Noise or Gaussian blur to smooth out the editing artifacts