Photo Retouching - - Retouch photo / remove hair, HELP!

tobbe_81 · #1 01-05-2007, 02:49 AM

Hello everybody!

I been member here a while now and i got loads of experience here, really good site!

Im currently working on a photo where i want to retouch the skin, add shadows, fix skin tone etc.

I read alot of tutorials and i can fix the skin so its looks nice..but..
Now i have a tricky thing.. on the photo i want to remove all hair on the forearm.. I tried alot of thing, but nothing looks near natural

Soo i wonder, is this even possible to make??

Anyone know if i can get a photo fixed for some cash? I doubt i ever gonna fix this myself!

Soo, heres the picture: http://www.tobbe13.com/DSC_0199.JPG

Cassidy · #2 01-05-2007, 03:53 AM

Are you looking to reduce the hair or totally de-nude the arm?

As a suggestion, I did a copy of the background layer, did a highpass filter on the image so it sharpened up the arm hairs and then inverted this filter. Set the blending mode to luminosity and reduced the opacity quite a bit until I got something that looked ok. Using a black mask, painted only over the areas I wanted to reduce. To remove the outer hairs which appear against the background, I just cloned the background areas onto a new layer.

philbach · #3 01-05-2007, 01:29 PM

Well I never tried what cass described so I let er rip. I found that after copying the layer and running the high pass filter and inverting, that vivid light blending mode seemed to help the hair removal. Yes I used a mask like cass and cloned the background over the protruding hairs.

KR1156 · #4 01-05-2007, 01:38 PM

phil, i took your image and added a little noise to the arm area so it doesnt look so smooth or retouched-----think it helps?

ruud92 · #5 01-05-2007, 02:01 PM

I did what cass did and the skin on my way of retouch i think it looks good, only i dont think you can get off all the hair.. im sorry.

R.

Daviskw · #6 01-05-2007, 02:10 PM

Hi there

Just for fun I did it a little different than the guys above.

I copied a section of his back.

Overlayed the arm and hid all with a mask

Then with a brush in lighten mode I painted the arm back in.

I used curves to get the skin close in color then reduced opacity to allow a little shadow below to come thru.

Then I duplicated the layer and applied burn and dodge where needed to match the old shading.

I didn't think you wanted it too smooth

Butch

Lasa · #7 01-05-2007, 06:20 PM

I used the gaussian blur until I couldn't see the hair..then masked all (black), then brought the blurred skin back (white), lowered the layer mode to 75%. Smoothed the back while I was there..then added very low noise twice..and finished up with a very light unsharpen.

Lasa

topretouch · #8 01-05-2007, 10:41 PM

Here is my try

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...g?t=1168062096

tobbe_81 · #9 01-08-2007, 12:30 AM

Hello everybody!

Been away this weekend, therefore the late replyes!

I must say, im deeply impressed about all of your works! I going to try Cassidy´s tecnique and see if i can get the same result

Thanks alot everybody!

tobbe_81 · #10 01-08-2007, 12:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by topretouch

Here is my try

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...g?t=1168062096

Wow! Im impressed! Thats really looks nice, Its something like that i had in mind!

How did you do it? Used the same tecnique as cassidy posted?

tobbe_81 · #11 01-08-2007, 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cassidy

Are you looking to reduce the hair or totally de-nude the arm?

As a suggestion, I did a copy of the background layer, did a highpass filter on the image so it sharpened up the arm hairs and then inverted this filter. Set the blending mode to luminosity and reduced the opacity quite a bit until I got something that looked ok. Using a black mask, painted only over the areas I wanted to reduce. To remove the outer hairs which appear against the background, I just cloned the background areas onto a new layer.

Hello Cassidy!

Yeah, i want remove all hair - but without its looks fake!

Im about to try your tips now, i´ll keep you updated =)

tobbe_81 · #12 01-08-2007, 03:25 AM

Hello again!

Ivé tried to follow cassidy´s advice, but i cant get it to look any good

I cant wait for topretouch´s answer how he did it, he also adjusted the skin so it looks tanned and nice.

I have uploaded my work here as a .psd, ive removed all blemishes etc, deleted the back. So its just the hair and the skin tone that i have left - but ill still trying!

http://www.tobbe13.com/Martin_Back_Edited.zip

topretouch · #13 01-08-2007, 05:59 AM

Hey, first off topretouch is a woman. LOL I do all editing in paintshop. I am a pageant retoucher. Haven't mastered PhotoShop yet. I wish, one day I would get the courage and time. Any way what I did was
duplicate the background. Laso the part of the arm I was working with. Go to the background layer, gausin blur it to about 12 or so, till I couldnt see the hair anylonger. Go to the duplicate layer, sharpen it till I was satisfied then lowerd the opacity to that about to 42%. Then unselected it all. Merged the layers. Cloned a little bit until I was satisfied with the look. As far as making him tan, i pretty much used curves

Hope this helps. I hope to get into more retouching like this in the future.
Thanks
DeeDee(topretouch)

Cassidy · #14 01-08-2007, 06:12 AM

Sometimes we can be too clever by half and looking at the original, the method I suggested doesn't work as well. I did the same as I suggested but instead of making the blending mode luminosity, I chose linear light as it did a better job. The Highpass setting was 19.6 and the opacity of the highpass layer with mask was 51%. As this removed pretty much all the texture, I copied a portion of the skin off the back (lighter part), using transform enlarged it and then using a mask gently painted the texture over the top using a 25ish opacity setting on the brush and restoring less of the texture to the wrist as opposed to the rest of the arm

tobbe_81 · #15 01-08-2007, 06:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by topretouch

Hey, first off topretouch is a woman. LOL I do all editing in paintshop. I am a pageant retoucher. Haven't mastered PhotoShop yet. I wish, one day I would get the courage and time. Any way what I did was
duplicate the background. Laso the part of the arm I was working with. Go to the background layer, gausin blur it to about 12 or so, till I couldnt see the hair anylonger. Go to the duplicate layer, sharpen it till I was satisfied then lowerd the opacity to that about to 42%. Then unselected it all. Merged the layers. Cloned a little bit until I was satisfied with the look. As far as making him tan, i pretty much used curves

Hope this helps. I hope to get into more retouching like this in the future.
Thanks
DeeDee(topretouch)

Hey!

Im so sorry about that DeeDee

Thanks alot for sharing your info, i´ll try to use the same techique in PSP now and see how it works

I´ll keep you posted!