Many of you are probably familiar with using clone and heal brushes to remove stray hair off the face or the background. What you may not do as much is clearing stray hair that is disrupting the main hair flow. Part of it is because it’s pretty time consuming and difficult.

Well, Natalia Taffarel posted an article on Model Mayhem on a technique she uses that cuts down on the difficulty. It is still a very manual and time-consuming process, but the result is a lot easier to achieve.





Here are several things you have to do to achieve this:

The Darken blending mode makes it so that it only affects the typically lighter stray hair and not affect the darker main hair below. Of course, you can always use the Undo if you sometimes don’t get the desired effect.

Check out Natalia’s video to see this in action:

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1. Diminishing Age and Eye Lines via the Clone Stamp Tool – Professional Photoshop Portrait Retouch Series – Part IV
2. High-End Photoshop Retouching Video Tutorial
3. Creative Portrait and Retouching Techniques with Lindsay Adler – WPPI 2012 Notes
4. Learning and Setting Healing Brush Presets – Professional Photoshop Portrait Retouch Series – Part II
5. Removing Unwanted Lines and Blemishes via the Healing Brushes – Professional Photoshop Portrait Retouch Series – Part III