Taming flyaway hair with the Patch tool

Another common problem with portraiture are flyaway hairs because they can…be quite distracting, especially these really noticeable ones over here on…the right-hand side.…So in order to remove those, let's select the Spot Healing Brush and we'll zoom…in using Cmd+Spacebar and then clicking and dragging.…Then before we start removing these stray hairs, we need to make sure that…we're on the right layer.…If I click-and-drag right now, I'll be manipulating the Dodge and Burn layer.…So on the Layers panel, let's scroll down.…

I want to either be on the Background layer or on a copy of the Background layer.…If I'm feeling fully confident, I could edit directly on the background but…let's go ahead and make a duplicate of the background by using Cmd+ or Ctrl+J. …Now that I have the Background copy, if I make any mistakes, I can…always go back to the original background.…So now I'll click-and-drag over the hair and you can see that Photoshop will…remove that stray area and blend that area in with the background.…