Photo Retouching - - Removing forehead hair

marci03 · #1 05-20-2008, 10:07 AM

Hi all!

Please help me to removing the hair on the forehead.
If possible, write me a step by step opinion.

http://www.szitamarton.hu/forehead.jpg

Thanks!

Swampy · #2 05-20-2008, 10:32 AM

Marci

You can use the healing brush (small diameter) to get rid of most of the hair. You may want to check the box in the options to add a little texture. Then come back with the clone stamp and smooth things out.

ashphotoart · #3 05-20-2008, 10:36 AM

I just made it with Clone Stamp tool with medium opicity brush.

made 2 adjustment layer and set some opacity to get natural look.

hope it helps.

Photoart

ashphotoart · #4 05-20-2008, 10:45 AM

Hi Swampy

Hello again. I'm not agree with your result. It looks retouched.
Sorry, but I do not prefer retouched look.

Thanks.

PhotoArt

superkoax · #5 05-20-2008, 02:56 PM

you can't really take away all of the forehead hair...that would look unnatural with this "normal" haircut...

Panpan · #6 05-20-2008, 04:24 PM

In CS3, I would bring down the hairline with Liquify, set the blending mode of the layer to Darken and adjust its opacity to suit.

marci03 · #7 05-21-2008, 02:02 AM

superkoax: you are right, this look unnatural.

thanks everybody

Liz · #8 05-21-2008, 03:32 AM

I thought the general idea was that the postee would attempt to do the best they could with their image and then the posters would offer suggestions on how to improve their work from that point? I couldn't see any attempt by this original post at all? Maybe I've read the rules wrong.

JavierT · #9 05-21-2008, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Liz

I thought the general idea was that the postee would attempt to do the best they could with their image and then the posters would offer suggestions on how to improve their work from that point? I couldn't see any attempt by this original post at all? Maybe I've read the rules wrong.

I agree you, Liz

Anyway, here is my quick attempt. Don´t fire me cause I´ve rid off (not totally, less noticesable) some spleckles. It is my taste, and I can do it or not. Of course, you can like it or not too LOL

I work in the forehead with lasso and, after this, Free transform to adjust at the hair line. Then, history brush working in the same direction of the hair to recovery some of the roots. After that, some cloning to restore the position of the forehead highlight. In the face, a little bit of D&B and finally, a bit of Degrunge (ByRO´s way) to get a more flawless sking, hide it all and masked .
Hope it helps.

ashphotoart · #10 05-21-2008, 06:15 AM

Hi JavierT,

Your output is very good. I Liked it.

Ash

JavierT · #11 05-21-2008, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by ashphotoart

Hi JavierT,

Your output is very good. I Liked it.

Ash

Thanks Ash. Trying to help, like a lot of people here is helping me, everyday.

colorexpertsbd · #12 05-21-2008, 07:45 AM

Use of lasso tool followed by clonning is a very way of removing forehead hair. I have used the above given method and got the desired result.Thank You.

bazza64 · #13 06-11-2008, 02:03 AM

I just used the polygonal lasso tool (20 pixel feather) starting on the left side just under the hairline, traced it accross to the right side then down following just inside the hairline to just over halfway on her forehead. I then traced it back to the left side to just inside the hairline again and at the same angle to finish where i started, double click, marching ants, copy, paste, creates new layer, use up-down arrow keys to position to suit then adjust opacity to taste. Mine is 62% I left some small hairs there to look more natural. That's it, no D&B or cloning all layers set to normal, It took approx. 2 min. I was going to remove her freckles as well but decided not to, she's as pretty as a picture, freckles and all.

Here's an update Marci, I coudn't resist I hope you like it?

marci03 · #14 06-11-2008, 02:45 AM

Thanks for your opinion.

leuallen · #15 06-11-2008, 11:52 AM

Using a patch is often a good way to handle this situation. There are two approaches: patch the skin into the hair or the hair into the skin. In this case the hair into the skin works best. Oftentimes multiple patches are required but we only need one here.

Fig 1. The original and the patch. The patch was created by lassoing a section of hair above the hairline, copying and pasting to a new layer and moving it down over the bad area. Mode set to Darken. The opacity is reduced to taste, in this case about 60%. The patch in my example shows a goof. I started blending by erasing and realized my mistake and added a mask. I finished blending on the mask with a soft, black, low opacity brush. Fig.2.

Fig. 3 top. I used the stamp tool to remove the almost white highlight spots near the center hairline. Near white or black areas do not respond to dodging and burning so they must be fixed before this step. The bottom fig shows the results of D/B, 50% gray, overlay method with additional control for color shifts.

The last fig is the final result. There was an additional layer placed on the stack to fix the color where the hair blended into the skin. The layer was a blank layer set to Color mode. Painted on with a brush, 20% opacity, pressure, sampled color. The blended area shows a gray cast in the skin due to the patch. Some skin color should show through. By sampling a good color on the forehead and brushing it into the skin areas of the blend, it looks more natural. A subtle enhancement.

I would not try to clone for this fix as the texture will be lost and it will not look natural. This method retains the texture.

Larry