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Hey everybody, I'm Nathaniel Dodson from tutvid.com. Welcome into this Photoshop tutorial
where today we're going to take a look at getting rid of fly-away hairs using a little
technique that I think is maybe the most effective way to do this here in Photoshop.
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the near future and all the other good stuff that's on the channel. Let's jump into Photoshop
now and check this thing out. Alright, so here we are in Photoshop. If I grab my
zoom tool I can just zoom in and I can see that she does in fact have a bunch of fly-
away hairs and often times the client will ask you to just get rid of this stuff. So
we're going to go ahead and get rid of some of these fly-away hairs for her.
Now the first thing that I would point out is I don't like to get rid of every single
little whisp and fly-away, especially when it comes to this kind of smaller
stuff along the hair. We may clean it up a little bit. But if you make the whole edge
of the hair completely perfectly smooth, then it doesn't look realistic anymore. In
terms of cleaning up this stuff over here, this stuff is all kind of the stuff we want
to clean up, right? Like those kind of crazy you know, I'm outa here kind of hair. We
want to kind of clean up that stuff up. So here's what I like to do. First and foremost,
create a new layer. So we're working on a new layer. It's a nice non destructive way
to work. I'll just name this layer flyaway. Something like that. Then I like to go ahead
and grab my healing brush. It's not the spot healing brush, not this guy here. But rather
the second one in line the healing brush tool. And here on the healing brush tool, I am first
going to make sure that current and bellow is what I am sampling. In terms of diffusion you
probably want do go with a pretty big diffusion. This is kind of the amount of blurriness or
blending blur that's going to be on the edge of your brush. If you go with one it's just
going to be, it's just not going to blend as nicely. So I'll go up into 5 or 6. Something
like that should work fine for what we're doing. Current and below just because we're
up on a blank layer but we want to sample from this stuff underneath. And then the mode
I want to set it to replace. So once I have that, I'll zoom in and begin working around
her hair. So I'll just clean up some of this stuff down here. I will umm, grab that tool
and I'll hold down ALT or OPT. Just sample somewhere out here and begin just gently
painting over the hair. I try to sample stuff that's relatively close to what I'm covering
up and you'll see why here in a moment. Cus if you go sample and stuff like way out
here even if you're theoretically over a solid grey background, the grey that's out over here
maybe enough shade of a difference then the grey that should be here at the edge of
her hair that it would really be noticeable when you sort of back out and look at the
image from further away. So we'll clean up some of this stuff here. And sometimes this
soft edge can really kill some of the realism in this case, I think it's working just fine for us.
But if you do need to work with a hard edge brush, that is completely fine. In fact, maybe
I'll right-click here and boost the hardness to about 50% or so. Come in down here
along the edge of the hair down here and just wipe away and clean up some of that
stuff. Kind of smooth out that area of her hair. Then I can just bounce right up here
along the edge of here har just go right along this and you know, you can make it
as even and uniform or as sough as you like It's all a matter of you know, you want something
that almost is kind of random if you will. Because you don't want it to look like oh,
they just took a brush and you know, painted you know, a new edge to her hair because that
right there is not going to look very realistic. and you would paint over all of these, all
these little hairs. I'm speeding the video up here as I go through this because I
want to show you one last thing before I let you go in terms of how I like to blend
this trick for once and for all at the very end. And there we go, we pretty much
wrapped that up. Now you can see here, that could probably be cleaned up a little bit.
Because we're up on our own layer, maybe I'd throw a mask on it, but for the sake of
keeping it just nice and simple here, I'm going to grab the eraser which I use so
infrequently. I had a difficult time finding it right there. I'm going to increase my
hardness and I'll reduce the size a little bit. What I'll do is just come in there and
just erase that away to just build out the edge of her hair a little bit more.
And this up on it's own layer we can shut it off and you can see there's all that
flyaway stuff. We turn it shut it off. And if you see any kind of noticeable anything
you can just simply reduce the opacity of the flyaway layer a little bit. No it is
going to start bringing some of that hair back but as you zoom out and away, it
makes it, number one, much more difficult to see. And it will just give you blending that
sometimes you need. Now sometimes it'll look great at 100% and here I think we're doing
pretty good at 100% if Photoshop is going to let me get back to 100% there. I think we're
doing pretty good at 100%. But it is a quite a drastic difference. And the next step by
the way would be just filling out the edges of the hair. Now I do want to make a side
note here. I tend to prefer using the healing brush tool set to replace because I get
better edge blending than if I just go and use the clone stamp tool. This again can
be incredibly important when you're working over solid color backgrounds so
when somebody doesn't to look at the photo, it doesn't look like you've outlined
just a slightly different shade of whatever your background color is. Now I will create
another layer her and I will call this like, hair fill. Something like that. And I would
just zoom in to arias like this here and once more I would use the same exact
brush set to replace And I would go through, well let's try this actually set
to normal. Let's see if that does a better job here, nope that actually looks pretty bad.
Let's right click. Make sure our hardness is turned all the way up and this would be a
case where we want to turn defusion way down. Try painting over this and see what
we get. You can see we can just go ahead and fill in her hair and just make it look
like it's a little bit more fill here near the edges. You can fill in stuff like this and
kind of make it look. you know, half decent. Go in and just paint over arias so it doesn't
look you have duplicating patterns. And you can even go in and fill an area like this and
really begin to make her hair look like it is very very full. And you can see now when
I zoom out it just fills that in a little bit. There's before, and there is after. So
makes a little bit of a difference and again, if it's too much, just reduce the opacity
a little bit and something like that just to add a little bit more that realism yet still
adding that thickness and sort of weight and volume to her hair. So yeah, that's
pretty much it for this one you can see, a simple little technique. It's nice and easy.
But it's pretty effective. It's something I've been using for a little while. So I figured
you know what, It's about time I jump on here and share it with the good people on
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bringing you these videos. Guys, for using the healing brush in kind of an interesting way
on a new layer, non-destructively to get rid of flyaway hairs. That's it. Get it? got it? Good!
Nathaniel Dodson, tutvid.com. I'll catch you in the next one.