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| Help with Hair removal I shot this image as a favour for a friend, she's a makeup artist and would like some beauty images in her book. My problem is that I can't remove the fine hair on her forehead without it looking terrible. The picture is about 1/4 done, so I know there is still loads that is wrong with it. I've removed hair on her top lip by blurring a copy of the area and then adding skin texture with a new layer comprising of a selection from her cheek, running a high pass filter, then overlay mode.... thanks to godmother's vid for that one! The problem is that it isn't working on her forehead, and I don't like the loss of texture on her lip, in the area I have done. dodge and burn techniques aren't working due to the different tones. Could anyone provide some advice/guidance on what to do? I'm not asking people to do it for me, just throw some ideas in my direction, on how to achieve a really professional result. also, if you've got any ideas on how to fix the skintones! they look a bit horrible at the moment. Thanks, Bohngy http://www.benlawrencephoto.co.uk/forehead1.jpg |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal Is that the full sized image? What does the original look like? |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal if it's very minor, sometimes you can cheat with a little, carefully done, dust & scratches, followed by a little noise and additional D&B for cleanup. if not, i usually just make a curve that really hits the highlights and darkens them in to match the midtones, and just paint in each hair. |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal it's been resized for the web, and cropped a little, how come edgework? |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal Bohngy, this technique should work well on your image: http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=213Regards, Murray |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal Hi there Added a texture layer grouped with a masked snapshot of median filter layer Butch Last edited by Daviskw; 11-14-2007 at 03:53 PM. |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal Copied a section from the right side of her forehead, flipped horizontally, moved it over-top of the hair and lowered the opacity to suit; healing brush tool to blend in the blemishes; painted with a low opacity soft brush on a blank layer in Overlay mode using the skin color from the right side of her face for the skin tone; enhanced her eyes using masked duplicate layers in color burn and color dodge modes, sharpened. |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal Butch, that's a nice job. Your method sounds very similar to mine. I duplicated the original and used surface blur to remove the hair. Duplicated the original again and used the pattern maker from a sample of her own skin, highpass, and slight blur to create a layer with the new texture. Combined the new texture layer with the blurred skin layer using linear light and put both of them into a group that is selectively masked. Bart |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal do you realy want her to look like a plasic barbie doll? Sometimes if you cant get a realistic version, leaving it alone is best. I agree with cris, darkening the strands is a nice idea. So here is an example of a very light hair removal. I still think the original photo is nice by its self. But as you can see i did other things to the photo like soften the lace, ect. I used neat image to even the skin, (as a layer painted in) and cleaned up the rest with just burn tool and color corected areas. |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal Thanks Bart... your technique looks good...I'll have to try the pattern maker..sounds like it could work good. I think this is a very nice shot... it can be strong colorful and bold... or muted and mysterious. I always like the bold as you can tell and I like the eyes half hidden and colorful…lol… I personally think this would be a great candidate for the Soft Doir Technique. However it works great bothways...I like Matthew's as well Butch Last edited by Daviskw; 11-14-2007 at 02:19 PM. |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal A bit late, but liked the photo. |
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| before/after i thought i'd also do some minor changes. lots could be done on this. it's a great photo. the skinjob corrected the hairy forehead problem. afterwards i had some freetime to do a nosejob and color correction. hope i could help. here's the link to compare. before/after |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal Butch and Bart, I have tried making a pattern with skin and I don' get a good result. Would one or both of you go into a little detail about the method please? |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal You can try to blur out the area and lighten it and color management(to make it more balanced from the rest of the skin)...then copy a good area with clean skin on to a new layer and move it over the blurred area, use blend mode linear light and then use highpass filter to get more texture back... |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal A couple of things come to mind to reduce the hairiness, you could copy the area to a new layer and then use a surface blur, drop the opacity of that layer to blend until the hairs are just starting to show through, or create a copy merged layer, take a snapshot, guassian or surface blur ever so slightly the affected area and then using the history brush, at low opacity, brush back the details. Just a couple of other thoughts in addition to the others |
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| Re: Help with Hair removal Quote:
Now you can pick a small area on her face that already has no hair texture--I chose a spot in the center of her forehead just above her brow (see fig 2). Copy (ctrl-c) to put it into the clipboard. Then create a new blank layer and run the pattern maker. Check "use clipboard as sample" and click generate. Next click okay. You now have your texture--should look nice and uniform with no blotchiness. Because of the mathematics of the highpass filter and linear light blend, this texture is actually twice as strong as you want--so you need to set the fill on this new texture to 50%. Now when you linear-light combine it with the surface-blurred version, the texture strength will match what was already there except the hair is gone. You can make further adjustments to that 50% fill if you want more or less strength in the texture. You can also re-do the highpass with a smaller radius to make the texture finer. Bart |
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