Hi, it's Lili Amanda
for Portrait Creatives. In this video, we are going to
talk about how we can quickly remove flyaway hair when I
saw this question, I was like, um, yes, I know how to remove
flyaway hair and but how to do it quickly, as quick as possible. what I usually do is I
will go strand by strand. I will have a perfect image if I
do it all manually, all one by one. But that's not quickly. so when I was being asked this
question, I was like, I, I thought about it for many, many
days actually weeks to trying to figure out this puzzle. How can I do this one quick? And I was just thinking. Oh, so I was listening to a
podcast and this guy was talking, talking about Einstein, This
guy was, he wasn't agree with Einstein and he found a lot of
Einstein's theory has flaws. And I was like, okay, Einstein,
what would Einstein do if he has to quickly remove hair in Photoshop? then I thought about
another thing like AI. What AI would do if, uh, you ask
AI how to quickly remove the hair. So if you think like ai, okay,
and now we have a lot of AI software coming out, right. And AI cannot work without data. It, it's not like human. We can come out
stuff out of nowhere. AI cannot do it. AI only able to replace
something from something. I've been seeing people playing
with AI app how they can, uh, generate data how they can, like,
for example, a blur image and put back to the detail, make it sharp. It was fascinating about how AI
can do, but actually AI has a database like it will pull out
a lot of data to matching the command we ask it to do, but it
cannot generate data from nothing. So it has to have, for example,
if the AI want to make images sharp it will have to go to
the database to find the sharp images, which is like similar
to the one we ask AI to do. so think about that. it probably will go through
thousands, thousands of photo for similar lighting, for
similar face, for similar color tone and lighting, like
all the scenario, and to match like similar scenario, similar
face to the images shop again. And it turns out it, like
it is never been real. Like the person will
be completely changed. It was slightly changed because
the data will pull out, was not the original person. Of course, a blur
image is like that. There's no enough data right
to to the blur image and you have to make something out
of nothing, it's impossible. So that's why AI was searching
all this image data, trying to create a sharp image, and
I was thinking about, okay. so how am I generate data? How am I going to generate
data from the existing data? So, and I came out
with this quick method. Okay. I've been talking about this
a lot, but bear with me. This is so interesting because
when I show you, you'll be amazed that it only seconds
to remove the flyaway hair. And so I come up with this
idea, why not I use the existing image, part of the existing image
and paste on the flyaway hair. if I do that, what
the result would like? So I'm going to show you
how I did it quickly remove flyaway Let's go to Photoshop. So we have this beautiful
image of Amber and you can see she has some flyaway
hair, over here and over here. And also this side. let's say you use Patch tool
to remove the flyaway hair. So normally we do
something like this, right. And it's never gonna be good. Look at this. And also, okay, let's
try healing brush tool. Trying to remove the hair. Let me sample this
area and go over. Okay. It's not a bad job better
than the patch tool, but you can see like the, there is a
trace of retouching over here. the texture is not
matching to this area. Right. And then let me just show you more. It doesn't do a bad job,
but just the texture wise, it's still not perfect. and it also takes time to
go through all this, right. So let me go back and let's try to use
Clone Stamp tool. Let's see if I sample over
here and move, it does a better job with Clone Stamp Tool. Right, but you still can
see it's not something you can do very quickly. You still have to go through
everything and also texture changed, can see all that, right? And you have to be very careful. And then something like that. This is something you can do
as well with clone stamp tool. It doesn't do a bad job,
but just it takes time. Okay, and so what happened
if we use Spot Healing Brush? Let's say we just go over here. Let's see. See if it does a better job. It's not bad, but you can
also see like the texture actually changed around here. And if you are going closer,
it's not going to do a good job. Look at this. so we are not going to
use these methods as approach to this tutorial. there's another way. Okay. We can use. Content aware. Trying to remove this area. Let's see if it can
do a better job. Okay, let's say edit content aware fill. You see instantly we need some. We need to remove this area
because it doesn't do a good job. So we have to trying to help it,
help Photoshop to do a better job. So let's say like
this, that's not bad. Look at that. The edge, that does
look quite clean. But if you look closely like
still something need to take care of, So I'm gonna cancel
here and command D to deselect. So I'm going to show you a way it
only take you seconds to do and It's going to do a very good job. I'm going to do this side
just to demonstration for you. Okay. So what I'm going to do is
actually just make rough selection of this side of hair. For example, I'm
going to do this side. I'm just going to select roughly
like this part of flyaway hair. This is something I want to remove. Okay. I'm gonna select a little
bit into her face as well. And also this area, this is
something I want to remove right quickly as I promised,
and I'm going to, just going to select a little bit more. hold on the shift key
and just select a little bit more of this area. Okay, so that's the selection I'm
going to make and I'm going to move, I'm still on the lasso tool. I'm going to move the lasso
tool to the area where doesn't have flyaway hair, and I'm
going to copy this area. Command J to copy. Okay, so I have a new layer
over here, which is I copy this area without any flyway hair. And look, what I do, and I'm
changing to move tool, I'm going to move this area, see
this area back to where I want to replace all this hair. Look at this. Okay, so that's about that. So what do you think? doesn't it look great? Okay. So all I have to do is have
a layer mask over here and just mask out this area I'm
going to use a brush tool b. And I'm going to have a little
bit harness about 80% of harness, and then I'm going to paint back
a little bit more of the edge of her, of her skin over here. Look at that. Okay. And this also, I need
to paint back here. That's her original skin over. Okay, this got a little bit hair. That is easy to
take care of, right? But you get the gesture like you
understand like what I just did. I'm just gonna use this layer
mask paint back to the face. I just copy and paste. And also here, I'm
just gonna do that. So it's more. Detail come back and
also here and here, okay? This will only take a few
seconds if you know what to do. Right. Like this, you can even time
yourself how you can do this quick. And that's it. And you done, if you
think there are small area here is still visible. If you zoom out, you see here
some area is visible, right? It's very easy to take care of. I'm going to just have a
new layer on top of it. Command option, shift and E. So I have this new layer
combine with everything. I just edit and I use a
patch tool and I, I just go over like this, the edges
to blend the edges together. Okay. Like this. And then it's not visible anymoe right? Like this. So you see before and after. so let me know what you think. And I'm just so happy to
come up with the method. With this method. It's actually save tons of time. Okay. Do try it out and let me know
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