Photoshopping unwanted hair

[john_sarsgard1]

I'd like to minimize the hair on the young lady's arms. Healing brush and clone stamp don't work well. Is

there a usual way of doing this?

[will king]

Lets see the arm in question.

[john_sarsgard1]

Here you go. Any suggestions appreciated. Cropped because it's a client image.<div></div>

[patricklavoie]

1_a razor

 

2_

 

a_selecting rapidly the *problem* zone (take more than you need)

 

b_copy and paste on another layer

 

c_using the filter dust and scratch until the hair go away

 

d_applying a mask on this layer fill with black

 

e_change the layer mode from normal to lighten

 

f_using a brush with white as the foreground color to remove the mask on the arm and show you the resulting effect.

 

g_play with the opacity to get back some hairs so that could look a bit more natural. i think around 60% should be good.

 

Indeed the girl will have a softer arm as a result..but its better than having a arm full of hairs : )

[emre]

Challenging... I applied Imagenomic Portraiture then tried lightening the rest but it did not look any better, so I left it at what I got with Portraiture.

 

The goal is not to eliminate it, because that would not be realistic, but to make it draw less attention.<div></div>

[will king]

Could probably be done by perhaps sampling from another part of the body that doesn't have hair. Don't be fooled though. It will take a lot of work to make it look natutal. Probably be better by just using a razor as Patrick suggested. Wow, that's a lot of hair.

[john_sarsgard1]

I could not make it look natural with either healing brush or clone stamp sampled elsewhere.

Emre's effort looks better. thanks to all.

[eugene_scherba]

Waxing.

[mrossi]

If the client uses your shot for a dating site, their dates will be in for a big surprise! Nair works well too but I don't know if there's a Nair plug-in for Photoshop :)