Hair and background help?

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Hi, hoping someone here might have a clever idea for me here as I am looking for another way to get rid of stray hair on backgrounds without the laborious process of painting it all out. If anyone has any great tricks for this, I'd really appreciate it. You can see an example of what I mean at http://www.headshotslondon.co.uk/hairhelp.html I've circled the problem in red. Thanks for any and all help! Lynn
 
herrickphoto said:
Hi, hoping someone here might have a clever idea for me here as I am looking for another way to get rid of stray hair on backgrounds without the laborious process of painting it all out. If anyone has any great tricks for this, I'd really appreciate it. You can see an example of what I mean at http://www.headshotslondon.co.uk/hairhelp.html I've circled the problem in red. Thanks for any and all help! Lynn
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Do you really need to get rid of these. After cutting out the background most of us spend ages trying to pull some stray hairs back in to make it look natural?
 
The other option then, is to use the brush tool, on white, since you already have a white background it should look fine.

I've just had a quick go (hope you don't mind me borrowing the image from your site? Your disabling of right click doesn't work on your website) and I've done it ok.

I'll post it up if you check the box that shows you allow editing of your photos, in your user control panel :)
 
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All I did was select the brush tool (9px size, 0% hardness), select white colour and gently brush round the areas you said you wanted removing :)
 
Looks good! That's pretty much what I've been doing, too. It takes ages on a black background, though. There may not BE a simpler way...just thought I'd see if anyone knew of one. Thanks for your help! Lynn
 
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