Hair and BG

[jcmartin0313]

I have a question that might have been asked but as I learn to retouch I keep running into an issue. How much cleaning up of fly away hair do most people do? The issue I keep running into is that as I clean up fly aways, I change the bg color because it seems no matter how often I sample, it still creates small streaks of lighter or darker where I cloned or painted. I then typically select the bg and turn down the contast and increase or decrease the brightness until it looks fairly uniform. I am finding this is not the best way to do this, but do not know another method. Any help would be appreciated.

[MicWayWal]

Less is more. Only retouch the most distracting strands.

[ramblinray]

Why are you cloning or painting when you can use the healing brush to do this and not have to resample for color? Give that a try. And like Michael said, less is better. No one has no stray hairs and to get rid of them all makes it look unnatural.