Why Hair Retouching Falls Apart at the Edges (And How to Fix It Without Losing Texture)

Why Hair Retouching Falls Apart at the Edges (And How to Fix It Without Losing Texture)

A few years back, I delivered a set of headshots to a corporate client and got a reply that stopped me cold. She loved everything except the hair. “It looks like a helmet,” she wrote. I stared at my screen, sipped my tea, and opened the file again. She was right. I had clone-stamped the frizz into submission so aggressively that her curls looked like a vinyl wig. The texture was gone.