Stray hairs

[sarah_lange1]

<p>Hi, I'm having trouble removing these stray hairs. It looks simple at first but neither the healing brush or clone tool are working. Both are creating a big mess, probably due to the patterns in the foliage in back being pushed around and changed, resulting in a very artificial Photoshopped look. Even going hair by hair isn't working. Nor is going in the other direction -- wide sweeping wholesale changes. I am wondering if Content Aware, which I've never used, would work. Or doing something with layers so that I could use eraser tool to wipe away these spiky hairs. Thank you. <br>

Hmmm. Not able to post a photo. What's up with that?</p>

[peter_cohen]

<p>Make sure you're working on a copy of the original layer, and try content aware. Also give clone stamp tool a shot at it. Which version of PS are you using?</p>

[eric_brody]

<p>I'd work with content aware. This is exactly the situation where it should do the trick. Do work on a copy, of course. Good luck.</p>

 

[sarah_lange1]

<p>So, content aware put a big second half-head on top of her head. Not so great. <br>

How do you add a photo to a post here on Photo.net? <br>

Thanks.</p>

 

[hjoseph7]

<p>"How do you add a photo to a post here on Photo.net?"</p>

<p>You got 2 options after you click on the Tab SHARING/My Portfolio<br /> 1) <strong>Basic Single Photo Upload - </strong>You can upload pictures larger than the 700 maximum width/length with this option. I'm not sure how large, but I have uploaded images with a 1000 pixels. The pictures get saved to your portfolio<br>

2) <strong>Upload Photos - </strong>maximum width/length is 700 pixels The pictures get saved to your portfolio ============<br>

<strong>Attach Photo to a Post</strong> - To attach a photo to a post, first write whatever you have to say and Confirm it(max 700 pixels). After you Confirm the post you should see a Dialog box with a BROWSE button. Click on the BROWSE button to select an image from files on your computer. After you selected the file/image click the UPLOAD button.<br>

You can also insert Links to your photos inside of a Post, but that is not recommended.</p>

[AmyHelmick]

I'm glad I happened across this thread. Harry in all my time here I never caught on to the different size options between

basic single uploader and upload photos. Thanks for that little pearl!

 

Amy

[Uhooru]

<p>Are you expanding the area you are working on so you can clone very small areas. Sometimes this stuff gets tedious.</p>

[JeffOwen]

<p>It sounds as if you are using too large a brush size in your cloning tool.</p>

[sarah_lange1]

<p>Thanks everyone. <br>

Yes, I am enlarging the area to 100 percent but the OOF foliage background is causing problems, looking natural after I've cloned hair. Even worse with healing brush since spiking hair is close to her head. The Content Aware just made it look like she had a big enormous growth coming off her head that was the same color as her red hair. UGH, must not have done that right. I watched a tutorial, maybe it wasn't a good one, it had someone removing a seagull from the sky so not same situation as I have. <br>

Thanks for the photo add help. </p>

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[J.W. Wall]

<p>FYI - Chris Orwig has a chapter on this at lynda.com in:<br>

Photoshop CS5: Portrait Retouching<br>

Jan Kabili also covers selecting hair in editing and retouching in PSE 11. There are several others.</p>

[Uhooru]

<p>Try expanding it 2 or 400 percent. Use the clone tool initially, and then maybe the heal brush. That's been my experience. Do you want to post the photo, or maybe just the area that is the big problem?</p>

[steve_bingham]

<p>I guess we would need to see the original - or at least the troublesome part.</p>