Now, it’s time to zoom in (to at least 100%) and get to work. So, instead, my tool of choice for this is the Clone Stamp tool (S), with a hard-edged brush, like the one you see me choosing here from the Brush Picker.

Step Two: Because we’re going to have to trim right up to the sides of the hair, the Healing Brush isn’t going to work well on this retouch-it would smear the edges when we got up close to the outside edge of her hair. We’ll be doing all our stray hair removal on this layer (which not only gives us an out if things get really squirrelly, but it’s a great way to see a quick before/after). Start off by duplicating the Background layer by pressing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J). Step One: Here’s the image we want to retouch, and if you look closely, the subject’s hair is…well…it could use some anti-static retouching-mostly on top, and a bit on the side, and there’s one hair extending onto her forehead we should probably fix while we’re there, too. If they cover an eye, or extend onto their face or clothes, be prepared to become a very patient person). Luckily, this one is much easier and faster than you might think (as long as the stray hairs extend outside of your subject, which is usually the case.

This is another one of those little things that makes a big difference, and once you take the few extra minutes to remove stray hairs, when you see portraits where the photographer didn’t take the time, they stick out like a sore thumb. In this episode, Scott will tackle adding highlights to otherwise dull hair. Scott Kelby shows you how to add highlights, remove strands, fix gaps, change color, darken a part line, and hide roots when retouching hair in Photoshop. In this episode, Scott shows you how to fix fly-away hair, stray strands of hair, and the “frizzies”

Hair strand brush photoshop