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06-09-2008, 07:55 PM
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| | | Removing Arm Hair Hey I have some photos with a very pretty model but she is slightly olive skinned with some dark arm hair.
Is there a NON BLUR method to fix this?
Can I somehow select the hairs with some kind of channel calculations? | 
06-09-2008, 08:33 PM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair There are many ways some of which may or may not be applicable, depending on the image. Can you upload a sample?
Regards, Murray | 
06-09-2008, 08:51 PM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair I suppose. Didn't want to, since I hate posting unfinished work
Just keep in mind it's about 50% done! | 
06-10-2008, 12:03 AM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair Dual curve (Dogde and Burn) technique will work for it. but will take too much time.
Ash | 
06-10-2008, 01:20 AM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair yes i'm familiar with d/b.
need a more pragmatic solution. | 
06-10-2008, 01:25 AM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair Use your healing brush and dust and scratches filter. Thats how i would do it. I wish i could go into details on h ow, but im so tired tonight. If nobody helps better by tomorrow night. i will post better details | 
06-10-2008, 05:20 AM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair Man thats tough I would attempt to make new skin with a texture map and paint it on over the hair using a layer mask. Other than that low level pixel cloning but that would take hours....... | 
06-10-2008, 06:03 AM
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| | Re: Removing Arm Hair Quote:
Originally Posted by transoptic Hey I have some photos with a very pretty model but she is slightly olive skinned with some dark arm hair.
Is there a NON BLUR method to fix this?
Can I somehow select the hairs with some kind of channel calculations? |
Many ways can be applied to remove arm hair. With channels: select that channel where contrast is prominent. Copy that channel. Select image->level for adjusting the dark color with the skin. Make selection. Now use brightness/contrast or color correction method to bring your desired effect. | 
06-10-2008, 06:22 AM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair If you want a good result, you are going to have to do the work. The method that Matthew suggests is a good one. Another one that often find useful is to create a new layer of the photo behind the first one, and offset it by a couple of pixels. The add a mask to the top layer, and paint on the mask with black to "erase" the hairs. The nice thing about doing it this way is, if you make a mistake and remove too much, you can paint it back in by painting with white. It helps to use a stylus if you can, as it really speeds up the work. | 
06-10-2008, 07:27 AM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair I know you said non blur, but you could try this:
1. Duplicate the background
2. Apply Dust & Scratches filter Radius 8, Threshold 5
3. Hide all mask, paint on mask with a soft white brush at about 30% opacity over the arm hair.
k | 
06-10-2008, 07:30 AM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair Hi transoptic,
See the pictures below.
Here is my quick and simple workflow :
1. Healing with "Lighten Blending Mode"
2. Healing with "Darken Blending Mode"
3. Cloning with very low opacity.
4. Some Burn to mainting body countour.
Hope it helps to you.
Ash | 
06-10-2008, 10:08 AM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair Quote:
Originally Posted by ashphotoart Dual curve (Dogde and Burn) technique will work for it. but will take too much time.
Ash | How much is too much. Seems to me, it will take exactly as much time as is required to do it right. | 
06-10-2008, 10:23 AM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair I took a shot at it using the healing brush. Took a sample from her chest and with a soft cloning healing brush just clicked away. Taking the sample from her chest matched the skin tone and dint blure. Then cloned the eges on the out side of the arms to get rid of the hair there. Finaly did a Doge and burn layer to put back in the shadows and highlights of the arms. My try took maybe 15 minutes but to ge the better look and do it right will take an hour or so. | 
06-10-2008, 10:31 AM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair for some reason didnt up load the picture but will try again | 
06-10-2008, 04:19 PM
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| | | Re: Removing Arm Hair @transoptic:
Why not post a 100% detail of the arm(s)?
I guess that would be a better way to find out how to... |
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