How to Remove Fly Away Hair in Photoshop

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Are you trying to get rid of those pesky fly away hairs? Here’s a quick and easy tutorial on how to remove fly away hair in Photoshop.

How to Remove Fly Away Hair in Photoshop

Fly away hair, or flyaway hairs, are wispy hairs in high-resolution images. Luckily, Photoshop masters have discovered an easy way to get rid of them to give the model’s hair a smoother appearance. Here’s how to remove fly away hair in Photoshop. 

How to Remove Fly Away Hair in Photoshop

To remove fly away hair in Photoshop: 

  1. Create a new layer and name it New. 
  2. Click the Clone Stamp tool on the left toolbar. 
  3. Set the Opacity and Flow to 100%.
  4. Set the Sample to Current & Below
  5. Click the Brush icon in the top toolbar and set the brush Hardness to 0%.
  6. Hold Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) and left-click the background.   
  7. Zoom into your image. 
  8. Left-click over the flyaways to remove them. 
  9. Click the New layer and click the Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers tab. 
  10. Set your foreground color to black. 
  11. Paint the edges of the hair back in. 

And there you have it! That’s a quick tutorial on removing fly away hair in Photoshop.