Paint Shop Pro Forums

Is there a way to smooth a subjects fly a way hair? It so annoying when you have the perfect shot and there is hair in the way!

Would you have an example of what you are looking for? Fly away hair is usually pretty easy to clone out. I often don't even bother unless it is very obvious, and distracting. I find making selections around fly away hair troublesome and would love some advice with that.

Jason

The picture I am working on has hair close to the eye, I'm not sure how to go about fixing it. I tried posting the picture but...having difficulties with that this morning!

By smoothing do you mean getting rid of it? I am somewhat of a beginer too so fogive me if that is a dumb question. It is not meant as sarcasm in anyway.

If you do mean getting rid of it, I would probably personally try to either paint it out or clone it out. That would be tedious and probably wouldn't work in the end. Perhaps one of the pros can give us a lesson on how to deal with it more efficiently.

I am a beginner too. I took a picture of a mother/son and it was windy that day. The mom has a little hair over her right eye. I tried cloning it but I made a mess when I got close to the eye. I guess I will have to leave it as it.

Have you tried using the eye dropper tool to select a color very near by and using the paint brushes to brush it out? Again tedious but I think in this case more effective than cloning. You will have to keep retaking samples as the background changes. You would just match the color to what is behind the hair and brush over the strands.

Using the Clone Brush is probably your best method. Have your view set very high, so that you can pick out the skin area you want to clone, and do it in small steps. It's a bit tedious but it will give the best result.

What version of PSP are you using?

This is months later, but when I have flyaway hair stuff I always use the scratch remover, this seems to work pretty well most of hte time. Sometiems there's issues with it being really clsoe to eyes cuz of the colors blending, but for the most part I can get it all off my forehead =] hope this helps!

(08-27-2009 12:27 PM)karatechrissy Wrote: [ -> ]This is months later, but when I have flyaway hair stuff I always use the scratch remover, this seems to work pretty well most of hte time. Sometiems there's issues with it being really clsoe to eyes cuz of the colors blending, but for the most part I can get it all off my forehead =] hope this helps!

The Scratch Remover is an excellent tool for this purpose. Make certain you're zoomed in on the area and set the Scratch Remover no wider than necessary to repair the problem region. Sometimes you can move the Scratch Remover so that you're working from a different angle and fix parts of the questionable area in steps for a better looking repair.

In the same sense that OldRadioGuy is talking about is what I may do, but with the clone tool and set the clone brush to the size of the hair - er a little bigger. You can move the cursor over the hair and hold the ALT key - press your left trackball or mouse button and move the wheel or ball up or down until the brush size matches what you want.

I know your having trouble posting a picture, maybe you could upload some where, er imageshack, etc and post the link to it...Just a thought so we could see it.