How fix shiny hairs on face.

[naveedusa]

I took this attached picture, how i can remove shiny hairs from the face and how to prevent in future. I have lightroom and PS cs5 too but i am not expert, if any tutorial available which has steps will be very helpfull for me too. thanx

[Tito87]

Try this, see if it works for you.

Reducing 5 O'Clock Shadow And Beard Stubble With Photoshop

[naveedusa]

Originally Posted by Tito87

Try this, see if it works for you.

Reducing 5 O'Clock Shadow And Beard Stubble With Photoshop

Thanks Tito, i tried it but its not working may be i am doing some thing wrong.

[autofocus]

You can try a much simplified version of the above tutorial. Circle the general area in question with the Lasso Tool. (you can do this in multiple steps, so don't try to encircle the complete area in question) Go to Filters>Noise>Dust and Scratches. I used radius 7 and threshold 7 and got pretty good results. You can play with those settings to get the best results...lowering the threshold number will make the whole encircled area blur too much. Whereas raising the threshold number will bring the fuzz back and the process will not do what you want it to do. You need to set those numbers so that it removes the telltale fuzz without totally blurring the area. Try it...I think it'll work for you

[BigFuzzy]

As for how to prevent it, it almost looks as if the subject put some cream on her face but didn't rub it in really well in the back areas so it stuck to the hairs a bit, it's also visible inside the ears.

This would be exacerbated by the fact you used straight on flash I believe as it would highlight any lighter areas.

So, avoid straight on flash and ensure if anyone put cream on their face that it's well rubbed in so as to not stick to hair and then become reflective due to the it's light color and flash being used.

[naveedusa]

Autofocus, thanx for your reply and hints, i will definitely try it tonight.

BigFuzzy, thanks for your input, its not any cream its natural hairs on 10 years girl, yes its direct flash thats why the problem appeared. But its good to learn how to fix it if we already got this kind of problem.

[DanielLane]

since it's already there, try the patch tool. should do the trick

[bigwater]

Like I think auto focus said the easiest way is to basically soften that part of the image. A lot of the time I will use an inverted high-pass layed masked out to just that part of the image and although it doesn't get rid of it completely it becomes much less noticeable. If you need more you can work with the healing brush and/or clones stamp tool to get it perfect but that takes time.

[sk66]

Here's what I did using PS.
menu>select>color range: selected the most offending point with dropper, adjusted fuzziness setting so the "preview" looked about right.
Once done the "selected pixels" is very misleading as many won't have the "marching ants" showing even though they WILL be affected by the following changes.

quick select wand+ Alt: deselect areas showing "ants" that I don't want to affect (e.g. earring)

Menu>Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation: Adjust the color temp/saturation/brightness until I got a pretty close match to surrounding areas.

Copy/Paste to new layer (still only those parts selected originally) and apply blur (heavy).

Change layer mode to overlay, or as suits. You may need to adjust opacity or use a different mode, I just selected overlay and left it alone.

Sounds like a lot, but took less time than typing this post. You'll probably want to tweak it a bit more than I did, but you get the idea.