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How to neaten fur while keeping natural texture of the fur

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April 27, 2021
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Hi guys! Can anyone teach me how to neaten fur like the examples below or care to teach me your way of editing to achieve such results? I have watched flyaways tutorials but it only works if the fur is around the bg, as you can see from the chin of the dog or near the mouth area, the flyaway method doesn't work.

I have found using the liquify tool helps but in difficult photos, the texture of fur goes all weird. I'm searching for something similar to clone stamping the fur while keeping the natural texture of the fur. Clone stamping fur alone gives patches of circular fur that does not look natural too. I have also tried fur brushes (to draw on 'fur') but it doesn't look good too.

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c.pfaffenbichler

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default8p9e891pnzjmAuthor

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Thank you for your reply! Although i don't quite understand tthe steps that you took, could you explain it?

c.pfaffenbichler

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I used a Smart Object, transformed it and applied a Layer Mask.

In this case I also added a Multiply-Layer to darken.

Such an approach will result in larger files and manual touch-up (with Clone Stamp Tool etc. and/or painting) may still be necessary.

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c.pfaffenbichler

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As for the left (from the subject’s side) upper lip in this picture mirroring and some painting to hide the noticable symmetry might suffice.

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default8p9e891pnzjmAuthor

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Is this what dave did? By cloning part of the tongue and sampling the less saturated color and painting over it?

c.pfaffenbichler

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Sometimes on can repurpose sections of th eimage to fill in other parts, so please post the image in question, not just a small cropped part (or at least the complete subject, not necessarily the background).

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This is the image. I am trying to clone the stains on the muzzle away with natural fur texture.

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davescm

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You should be able to hide that with simple cloning using a soft brush onto an empty layer. Set the clone source to "current and below" in the options bar and don't forget you can reverse flip the clone image or rotate it with the controls in the clone source panel (circled in red below). I also set another new layer to color blend mode and gently brushed over some areas round the mouth with the less saturated color sampled (Alt click with the brush) from the fur above

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