How thin hair or the opacity

[matthews22455057]

I have this photo, I think it looks great, but the hair in front of the subjects face is a little distracting from the image as a whole.  I don't want to get rid of it, I just want to reduce the opacity of it and make it blend with the photo.  I'm not sure how to do this.

[Norman Sanders]

I wouldn't touch it.

[davescm]

Hi

You could use the healing brush (set to sample all layers) and clone tool to clone out the hair on a separate layer then turn down the opacity of that layer to allow the required amount of hair to show through

Dave

[Norman Sanders]

Since you do not want to eliminate the stray hair, but to reduce its intensity, consider this.

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1. Image > Mode > Lab Color (first image).

  Drag L cannel to become Alpha channel. Select > All.  Edit > Copy

2. Return to RGB and Paste. Add a blank layer below below it and Fill with Black/

3. Return to the top layer, double click to bring up Layer Style. Use Blend If top left slider

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It produces the middle image above. Use soft-edged brush to create image on the right.

4. Layer > Merge Down to combine the top two layers. It will used as a mask.

5. Return to the the bottom layer and duplicate the layer.

6. Add a mask and deposit the mask you had created in Step 4.

7. Turn off the top layer and set the layer holding the image and mask to Multiply.

Option: dupe the multiply layer if desired to darken the strands of hair even more

[Ronald Keller]

I would use the Spot healing brush and immediately use Edit > Fade and chose an appropriate percentage.