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Removing facial hair?
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| SJ2571 2007-08-27, 6:29 pm |
| Hi group,
If I have a photo of my face, what's the easiest and most natural-looking way to remove my beard from it?
I've tried color replacing but the results are horrible. Even doing clone brush looks terrible. :(
Using PSP XI.
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| snapper@pookmail.com 2007-08-27, 6:29 pm |
| On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:07:48 +1000, "SJ2571" <N/A> wrote:
> Hi group,
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> If I have a photo of my face, what's the easiest and most natural-looking way to remove my beard from it?
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> I've tried color replacing but the results are horrible. Even doing clone brush looks terrible. :(
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> Using PSP XI.
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Try shaving before taking the photo...
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| SJ2571 2007-08-27, 6:29 pm |
| <snapper@pookmail.com> wrote in message news:1mc5d3pshctjh4oi62mucbhqa601jne1ja@4ax.com...
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> Try shaving before taking the photo...
Ho ho ho. Everyone's a comedian.
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| SJ2571 2007-08-27, 6:29 pm |
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"SJ2571" <N/A> wrote in message news:46d2b084$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
> If I have a photo of my face, what's the easiest and most natural-looking way to remove my beard from it?
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> I've tried color replacing but the results are horrible. Even doing clone brush looks terrible. :(
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> Using PSP XI.
As an example, see this photo (not me):
http://www.chriskula.com/beard/beard2.jpg
Is there a way to just "paint" over the beard or something, so that the background
beneath the hairs is left? I'm guessing like some sort of "replace the hair color
with the surrounding adjacent colors" as I paint?
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| On 27 Aug 2007, "SJ2571" <N/A> wrote in
comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro:
> Is there a way to just "paint" over the beard or something, so
> that the background beneath the hairs is left? I'm guessing like
> some sort of "replace the hair color with the surrounding adjacent
> colors" as I paint?
I don't think you're ever going to get results that look natural, but
your best bet might be to use the Clone Brush to copy areas of skin
from elsewhere in the face to the beard area.
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"Nil" <rednoise+news@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in message
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> On 27 Aug 2007, "SJ2571" <N/A> wrote in
> comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro:
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> I don't think you're ever going to get results that look natural, but
> your best bet might be to use the Clone Brush to copy areas of skin
> from elsewhere in the face to the beard area.
But it will not have the highlights and shadows formed naturally or shape
only colour and texture
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| On 27 Aug 2007, "Trev" <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote in
comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro:
> But it will not have the highlights and shadows formed naturally
> or shape only colour and texture
Got a better idea?
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"Nil" <rednoise+news@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in message
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> On 27 Aug 2007, "Trev" <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote in
> comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro:
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> Got a better idea?
Nope, which ever way you look at it you have to paint a face. No one has
invented the beard remover and replace with what's underneath plugin yet.
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| SJ2571 2007-08-27, 6:29 pm |
| "Trev" <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote in message news:1I6dnWA-56fufU_bnZ2dnUVZ8t2snZ2d@pipex.net...
> Nope, which ever way you look at it you have to paint a face. No one has invented the beard remover and replace with what's
> underneath plugin yet.
Hehehe. :) But can I tell PSP to remove the beard color and replace it
with a skin tone that I select from say my nose? If so, how? Thanks.
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| Fred Hiltz 2007-08-27, 6:29 pm |
| SJ2571 wrote:
> "Trev" <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote in message
> news:1I6dnWA-56fufU_bnZ2dnUVZ8t2snZ2d@pipex.net...
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> Hehehe. :) But can I tell PSP to remove the beard color and
> replace it with a skin tone that I select from say my nose? If
> so, how?
The Color Changer tool does this very well. Read up on it in Help.
However, that would give you nose-colored hair. There's also a
lightness difference, which you can evaluate by temporarily removing
all color from the image with Image > Greyscale. I also think you
would have to paint a face.
--
Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com
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| Larry Linson 2007-08-27, 6:29 pm |
| "SJ2571" <N/A> wrote
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> Ho ho ho. Everyone's a comedian.
No no no. A comedian would have said, "find a picture of the handsome guy
(erm, person... could be a bearded lady) you'd like to resemble. Use the
freeform select tool to capture his/her head, copy it, paste it in and
resize to match." You could be "Brad Pitt SJ2571" or "Mel Gibson SJ2571" or
"Lindsey Lohan SJ2571".
<GRIN>
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| SJ2571 wrote:
> "Trev" <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote in message
> news:1I6dnWA-56fufU_bnZ2dnUVZ8t2snZ2d@pipex.net...
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> Hehehe. :) But can I tell PSP to remove the beard color and replace
> it with a skin tone that I select from say my nose? If so, how? Thanks.
You can, but all that is going to do is look like you've dyed your beard a
strange colour. There is simply no way that software, that is just seeing a
bunch of coloured pixels, is going to be able to be able to remove a bunch
of hairy textured brown stuff and accuratly replace it with some smoothish,
pinkish stuff that has to both look like you, and match the exact skin tone
and lighting that would be needed to look realistic. Either you've got to
zoom in real close and clone out each individual hair (incredibly difficult
even with the sparsest beard), or as Trev says, effectively paint in a new
face over the top. Despite it sounding flippant, by far the easiest way is
to shave, take a photo, and then start growing a beard again.
--
Tim
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