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| | Photo Retouching "Improving" photos, post-production, correction, etc. | 
11-10-2007, 05:45 AM
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| | | Help with Hair removal Hi all, thanks for all of you who helped me out with my last thread on tonality, I'm still working on that one. This one is asking for a bit of direction with removal of facial hair.
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 | 
11-10-2007, 07:02 AM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Brooklyn
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| | | Re: Help with Hair removal Is that the full sized image? What does the original look like? | 
11-10-2007, 09:38 AM
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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. | 
11-10-2007, 01:37 PM
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| | | Re: Help with Hair removal it's been resized for the web, and cropped a little, how come edgework? | 
11-11-2007, 08:01 PM
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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 02:53 PM.
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11-11-2007, 11:36 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: British Columbia, Canada
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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. | 
11-13-2007, 01:46 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Flower Mound, Texas
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| | | Re: Help with Hair removal I wouldn't remove the hair at all. I might darken it down slightly though.
Chris | 
11-13-2007, 09:54 PM
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Posts: 471
| | | 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 | 
11-14-2007, 12:40 AM
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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. | 
11-14-2007, 01:13 PM
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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 01:19 PM.
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11-25-2007, 03:10 AM
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| | | Re: Help with Hair removal A bit late, but liked the photo. | 
11-26-2007, 06:56 PM
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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 | 
11-27-2007, 09:25 PM
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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? | 
11-28-2007, 04:57 AM
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| | | Re: Help with Hair removal here is mine....
Last edited by superkoax : 11-28-2007 at 05:08 AM.
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