Deirdre Holmes wrote:
Any one know of any great free tutorials about retouching hair.  Or just an explanation on how it's done.
For example like this http://nienna1990.deviantart.com/gallery
Is it frequency separation?
Is it cloning and warping?
It is straight painting?
Combination of all?
Thanks.

You were almost there!
http://nienna1990.deviantart.com/journal/22156120/
I think that it requires a combination of all!
It also depends on what type of picture you have
https://www.digitalphotoshopretouching. … ir-retouch

Good luck!

Chaviit0 wrote:

You were almost there!
http://nienna1990.deviantart.com/journal/22156120/
I think that it requires a combination of all!
It also depends on what type of picture you have
https://www.digitalphotoshopretouching. … ir-retouch

Good luck!

Thanks Chavito!  Awesome video.  There's not a lot of hair retouching though...

Deirdre Holmes wrote:

Thanks Chavito!  Awesome video.  There's not a lot of hair retouching though...

Grr... I think I showed you the wrong video
http://nienna1990.deviantart.com/journal/28623923/ =P
It's not a tutorial, but you can get some ideas.

Chaviit0 wrote:
Grr... I think I showed you the wrong video
http://nienna1990.deviantart.com/journal/28623923/ =P
It's not a tutorial, but you can get some ideas.

downloading now
wow - perfect.  Thanks!

Nona Emanon wrote:
without before/after, how could you know what is retouched and what's not?

A retoucher with trained eye usually can. It comes with experience.

Deirdre Holmes wrote:
Combination of all?

This.

With all the techniques you've learned, use the ones that best suit your work flow. Every technique has its benefits. Learn how to make the best out of each.

Asiris Creative wrote:

A retoucher with trained eye usually can. It comes with experience.

you can guess. but you never know.

Nona Emanon wrote:

you can guess. but you never know.

But thats what he is telling you. To a trained eye, you can know...

Nienna1990 wrote:

But thats what he is telling you. To a trained eye, you can know...

I find it presumptuous to claim that you can know. if i took a small brush and raise the luminosity of a pixel by the smallest unit, can you tell? clearly the image has been 'retouched'.

Nona Emanon wrote:

I find it presumptuous to claim that you can know. if i took a small brush and raise the luminosity of a pixel by the smallest unit, can you tell? clearly the image has been 'retouched'.

I think hair retouching is a littlemore than that, dont you think so?

no, I would know if a single hair was removed. But I would if a bunch was removed.

Nienna1990 wrote:
I think hair retouching is a littlemore than that, dont you think so?

no, I would know if a single hair was removed. But I would if a bunch was removed.

I agree here with Nienna. Of course it's impossible to tell on pixel level which pixel was changed and which wasn't, but in general for a trained eye it's possible to tell what was done to an image to achieve certain result.

Nona Emanon wrote:
without before/after, how could you know what is retouched and what's not?

The example I posted is a before and after.  It's a scroll over.  That's how I know.  (Yes I can tell too because it's impossibly perfect, but mostly by the scroll over.)

Nienna1990 wrote:

This.

With all the techniques you've learned, use the ones that best suit your work flow. Every technique has its benefits. Learn how to make the best out of each.

Nienna!  Thank you for your wonderful photo and video.  It does look like magic even watching it happen.  The hardest part of hair retouching for me is making it look symmetrical.  For example, when you heal your stray hairs you get symmetrical hair at the end.  When I heal stray hairs I get little blobs in the hair afterwords.  Still trying to work through the process, but dang it's not easy to say the least...

Asiris Creative wrote:

A retoucher with trained eye usually can. It comes with experience.

+1

Deirdre Holmes wrote:
Nienna!  Thank you for your wonderful photo and video.  It does look like magic even watching it happen.  The hardest part of hair retouching for me is making it look symmetrical.  For example, when you heal your stray hairs you get symmetrical hair at the end.  When I heal stray hairs I get little blobs in the hair afterwords.  Still trying to work through the process, but dang it's not easy to say the least...

I get the little blobs too...but for some reason no one does in the tutorial videos....grrr....very frustrating!

And none of the video links in this thread seem to work...