Taming flyaway hair

From time to time, you might need to get rid of some flyaway hairs, to just not…make them so distracting in a particular portrait.…Let's go ahead and take a look at this image.…We will do Command+1 or Ctrl+1 to take it back to 100%.…I will press the letter F to get us into Full Screen.…I am going to hold down the Spacebar and just pan this around, so you can see…some areas that I want to retouch:…the hair going across the ear here and this little hair here.…When we get to the top of the head, you will see there is some flyaway hairs…that we either want to trim or just downplay and not make as long.…So, let's get started.…Let's go ahead and get the tool of choice, the Spot Healing Brush tool.…

Now, the default setting for the type of replacement the Spot Healing Brush tool…uses is Proximity Match.…You will see that that's not the best default, and I will show you why.…I am going to go ahead and use Proximity Match.…Before I actually start retouching though, I do want to create a Retouch layer.…