Beauty Shoot Problem with Hairs in the Face

[DanielBux123]

Hello,
I have a Problem with some beauty Pics. Sometimes there are -Hairs- in the face even at woman. Please look at the picture.

How can I remove this hairs without destructing the -skin texture- and without -Blur- techniques.

Thanks

[oltenius]

Well, I think it's hard to do without blur technique but...
I used healing brush tool, than painting with a soft brush and changing opacity in vary modes.
Regards,
Dan

[Littlecoo]

G'day Daniel,
I am involved much in beauty retouching but I know of a couple of links that may be useful to you HERE and HERE as well as the tutoral space on this site... I hope this is of some help to you
-Littlecoo

[Ken Fournelle]

Search for the term: Peach Fuzz in the Search function. There was a discussion on this some time ago. I tried Vikki's method on your image, but it didn't work too well. Too contrasty I think


K

[LESider]

I've tried many ways to deal with it and my only solution is using the paint brush and sampling the color next to it with a very small brush and painting it in. the only place I really have problems is when there is soo much hair it causes an off color shadow around it. I've had images take me hours of painful painting to get right.

[Gary Richardson]

If you're needing to get in so close, this issue would have been best dealt with at the photo shoot (get model to wax, change lighting), any chance of a re-shoot?

[Cassidy]

I ran a highpass layer over the image, just picking up the hairs and then inverted this. Set the blending mode to hard light. Using a mask just painted over the hairs to remove the brightness of them.

[miguel]

heres what i came up with -- i agree with gary...wax

[solitear]

Certainly not any better than others have posted ..... just another attempt.....

Beth

[Ziaphra]

Cloning carefully at 26% opcity seems to help.

[maureeno]

Originally Posted by miguel

heres what i came up with -- i agree with gary...wax

Yours is grand, especially as you repaired her dried, chapped lip areas.

Maureen

[DanielBux123]

Hello,
the dried, chapped lip areas are deliberately. That in the face are so much powder are deliberately too. But only the hairs disturb.

I dont need proposals what -RetouchBook- I should buy because I have 4 of them.

The problem with the hairs in the face is a special problem.

I want to remove the -hairs- without destroying the skin texture. It is no problem if the technique takes time. It should only work well.

If there is any idea tell me.

Thanks

[miguel]

danielbux123, sorry, didn't know that was your intention - i redid the image cloning mostly.

maureeno, thanks.

[Ziaphra]

That looks great miguel!

[Godmother]

Ok... don't really have the time to show you... but I've done this before.

I use D&B (Set of layers curves adjustments)

Hair by hair... with a very small brush (2 soft)

If I get the tima, I'll post sample