Hairy Arms

Just wondering what do you guys do if you captured a good shot, but the hairy arms just messes up the picture..? Do you PS'ed the hair out ? lol

btw it's on a female

Of course it would depend on how much we are talking about and how it is show in the picture

It's not too bad clone stamping out a stray hair or two, blemishes and whatnot, but if it's an entire arm that the clone-stamp has nothing to work with, I'd say you're out of luck. Also, when it comes to that much of a change, I would be concerned about the subject noticing you PSed her arm hair out and she might take offense to it.

I hope you have more shots of her to work with

Heloperator wrote in post #11774110
Of course it would depend on how much we are talking about and how it is show in the picture

I agree.

Did she request that?

It is always amazing to me that women with hairy arms will go sleeveless for portraits anyway. Hairy arms not withstanding, I always tell my clients, male or female, to wear long sleeves for portraits. You don't need that large expanse of white skin competing with the face.

Post pics or it never happened.

SnapLocally.com wrote in post #11795793
Post pics or it never happened.

agreed

i have freakin hairy arms and the hair stays down... that backlight makes her look like big foot i truly dont know what to do. id also like to know the answer. im sure you can clone stamp it out.

In this particular example I think it's a pretty easy PS job that the subject wouldn't notice at all.

Use paths to make a selection in photoshop and clone stamp the area around the arms. pretty easy fix with such a dark background.

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Or couldn't you simply move the back light a few feet in either direction? I feel like that would reduce the effect a lot.

That was an untouched photo. I just posted it because it followed OP's thread title and I thought it was kinda funny. Hench why there is no watermark on that one.