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Messy Hair on Forehead - Need Help
Hi there, I'm a photographer but I retouch my own pictures. I am trying to learn how to: Scenario 1: Get rid of strands of hair on someone's forehead. Now I don't mean a couple of strands, I mean a lot of them. Enough that I can't really take a sample from the skin next to it in order to fix it. Scenario 2: Let's say I want to retouch the bits of skin i see through the messy hair strands, how would i do that without picking up the craziness around it? ------------------------------------------------------------------- I do frequency separation. If there is a video on how to do this let me know. I haven't been able to find one. Most of the videos I've come across deal with a little bit of hair which is easy to fix. ------------------------------------------------------ Here is an example. The hair strands don't bother me in this one but the skin behind it does:  Jul 28 14 10:46 am Link I think for this particular example, if you want to reduce the horizontal skin creases and leave the hairs intact, it would probably be best to do a frequency separation and then Dodge & Burn on a layer above the Low Frequency layer (i.e. between the High and Low layers) The trick is to select the right radius so that you send all the fine hair detail to the high frequency layer, but keep the broader skin texture in the low frequency layer. Jul 28 14 12:30 pm Link AKMac wrote: I don't get it. Why do you need frequency separation to do that? Jul 28 14 02:15 pm Link Or separate on 3 freq. Leave hair on high form on low, and your skin in mid. Jul 28 14 02:17 pm Link That all is more advanced than what I know. What I do is create a high and a low, use gaussian blur on the low then apply image, subtract, low, 2 and 128 for high. So that's the two separate things I know about. Maybe I need to watch more videos. I'm a bit lost now lol. The videos I've watched have only done 1 low and 1 high, nothing more. If any of you know of a link where the technique is more complicated please point me in that direction. Jul 28 14 02:56 pm Link Yajhil Alvarez wrote: Use surface blur or median, or dust and scratches if you want to separate. It would help you with sharp edges. Or just d&b without separation. Or convert your RAW normally. Jul 28 14 06:42 pm Link Decouple the horizontal from the vertical frequencies. Jul 28 14 07:02 pm Link Just jump the layer and use d&b tool at about 10% right on the layer then correct the color if need be. Jul 28 14 07:02 pm Link Thanks everyone. I did the dodge and burn thing and it does look better. Now what if I wanted to remove a bunch of those hair strands? I'm not going to for this image because I don't mind it but what if I did? Jul 28 14 07:33 pm Link bunch is just multiple of one. Jul 28 14 11:20 pm Link Christian Bela wrote: You're right - you don't need FS for this - but the OP mentioned it so I suggested an approach which used it. Jul 29 14 12:44 am Link Yajhil Alvarez wrote: It would have been hell. In that scenario you could use clone stamp to make hairs softer. Or something else to do so and then using D&B make them disappear. Or kill them with just a clone stamp. It needs to be as small as hair. Jul 29 14 01:52 am Link |
