PS Hair Treatment Tips How to deal with PS hair

　PS Hair Handling Tips

Of course, the source of control is fundamental, such as looking for a good hair stylist design hairstyle or choose a suitable hairstyle, take notes when taking photos and so on, the objective reason always exists, then need to do the picture post-processing, as today describes how to repair hair three ways.

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Method One: Clone Stamp tool

In Adobe Photoshop, the clone stamp is the first choice to eliminate flying hairs, simply sample pixels and brush off your hair directly. But if you have used a stamp, you should find that the defect of the stamp will follow.

The shortcomings and advantages of the stamp tool are as obvious: copying the pixels of the sampled area directly into the past. If the stamp tool is applied in brightness, color gradients, or background textures, it may not be as handy. However, the Clone Stamp tool works well in situations where the solid color background or the overall brightness is more consistent.

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But most of the time, we are experiencing a gradient background color, adjust the smaller brush diameter, constantly repeat close sampling, use the light blending mode, and so on, the clone stamp can not easily handle the gradient background color.

Even so, there are ways to make the stamp operation more effective. There are three layer blending modes: normal, dimming, brightening, and adjusting with brushes to improve the effect of the stamp on the color or brightness change.

Most of the time we use the normal mode, but because it is too straightforward to encounter texture background, it is not very applicable. So use dimming or brightening mode to make the stamp effect more accurate.

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In the case of darker backgrounds and brighter hairs, the blending mode of dimming is used, and in the case of brighter backgrounds and darker hairs, the light blending mode is used. This prevents the correction area from being exactly the same color and brightness as the sample area, as if it had not been modified. So even if the brush is big, the pixel is just a few pixels.

Method Two: Repair Brush tool

The Healing Brush tool is equivalent to the advanced version of the Clone Stamp tool. First it covers the color, brightness, and texture of the sampled area in the target area, and then uses the algorithm to blend the sampled pixels more naturally with the surrounding pixels.

The Healing Brush tool is a powerful tool for grooming and cleaning, and is ideal for removing freckles, pimples, unsightly skin tones, hair, and even dust. It works better than cloning tools because it's not just copying exactly, but it's a smooth fusion of pixels in the target area, sampling area, and perimeter.

The Healing Brush tool is a good helper for scenarios where the clone stamp is not appropriate, such as simple or complex textures. The Repair brush tool corrects the problems that may occur during the use of the clone stamp and retains the details. For example, in dealing with the hair on the face or clothes, the healing brush tool can retain most of the details of the skin and the texture of the garment.

One thing is the same as the clone stamp: Blending mode with the layer can improve the repair effect.

Of course, it's good to have disadvantages. Too "smart" for the healing Brush tool is also its determination. For example, the following figure, in the process very close to the edge of the obvious contour, the repair brush tool is not very useful, after the repair contour edge blurred, the effect is very bad. In this case, the clone stamp appears to be particularly useful because it is too "direct", but the brush hardness can be adjusted to fit the repair needs.

The following illustration shows the effect of fixing a brush when you are working with a high contrast edge, which can occur even if you adjust the brush to a very small size.

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Brush settings

Now there are two kinds of work to eliminate hair, and know what to use them. Below we look at some of the settings optimization, so that the operation is more ideal.

Speaking of operations, the tablet can be said to play almost 100% of the control and flexibility, but after skilled, mouse operation can also be achieved. If you do not have the handwriting board when you repair the picture, you can consider buying a piece, about 80 knives (equivalent to RMB 600 yuan), can be used for a long time.

Clone stamp

Generally, the default circular brush is followed, and the opacity is 100%. Hardness can be constantly adjusted, but rarely more than 80%, usually can be adjusted to 0%, 20%, 50%, 80%, until the brush can cover most of the target area. Of course, specific problems specific analysis, according to the actual application of the adjustment of hardness, to achieve the desired effect. If you use the tablet, you can also adjust the pen tip pressure.

As mentioned earlier, it is possible to make cloning more efficient by properly cooperating with layer blending mode.

Healing Brush Tool

Or a lot of people will say that the hardness of the brush down, and then to repair. But in fact it should be maintained at 100% hardness. and change the shape of the brush is roundness is 20-30% ellipse, also can change the ellipse direction according to the actual need.

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The above settings let the healing brush tool make it easier to randomly and frequently sample a soft brush. Because the healing brushes can automatically fuse edges, you do not have to set them as soft brushes when you operate. The effect is very natural and can reduce the risk of blurring the edges mentioned above.

Finally, the brush size only needs to be slightly larger than the target area, especially where the hair is closer to the head or where the background color and brightness change are greater.