Photoshop - Fur and Hair TUT

8/14/2019 Photoshop - Fur and Hair TUT

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DIGITAL HAIR MANIA!The goal of this project is to

create and apply specialized

brushes and layer effects usingPhotoshop 5.0. The creation of

these specialized brushes is a

simple technique, but the actual

sculpting of hair will take some

advanced skills.

Adobe Systems Senio

Creative Directo

Russell Brown make

regrowing hair possible

with Photoshop 5.0 ADVANCED

Creating Custom Brushes

1. When creating digital hair,

its a good idea to work with

several different sized brushes.

A variation of sizes and shapes

gives you more control and

more realistic results. In this

project, I used two differentsizes 64 by 64 pixels and 32 by

32 pixels. From the File menu

choose New and type in the

size of brush youd like to

create. A brush can be as big or

as small as you want. However,

the larger the brush, the slower

it will paint to the screen.

Look! Instant hair!We achieved the

stunning results yousee in this image with

only one application of

Adobe Digital Hair. Its

simple and easy to

apply and there are no

lasting aftereffects.

Remember, results may

vary on each individual

Before

After

Getting a little light-headed these days? Want to change your image? Youvecome to the right place! Experiment with the wonders of Adobe Photoshop 5.0to give yourself a whole new look. Impress your friends and feel good doing it.

Shortcuts Throughout this

document, the letter

in parentheses after a

tool is the keyboard

shortcut for accessing

that tool. Command/

Ctrl means Command

on the Macintosh andCtrl on Windows.

Option/Alt means

Option on the Macintos

and Alt on Windows.


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Digital Hair Mania! 2

2. Enlarge the view of the new

file to 300%. Press Command/

Ctrl+(+) key as a shortcut for

displaying images at greater

magnification. Press D to set

the default foreground color to

black. Next select the brush tool

(B) from the Tool palette.

Choose a soft-edged brush thatcomfortably fits in the new

window. Select Dissolve under

Paintbrush Options, and set

Opacity to 4. Finally, center the

appropriate brush in the middle

of the w indow and click once.

3. Next, clean up the new brush

with the pencil tool (N). Be sure

to check the pencil tool optionsto make sure they are set to

Normal and 100% Opacity.

Press X to set foreground color

to white. Remove any dots that

touch each other and give the

brush an even yet somewhat

random shape.

4. From the Filter menu,

choose Filter > Blur > Blur. For

the creation of hair, blur the

brush image once. Blurring the

brush gives it a soft edge. If

you do not blur the brush, the

resulting brush will be ver y

hard and coarse.

Dissolve BrushThe Dissolve brush

creates a random

scattering of pixels. You

can start with this

technique or instead

draw the brush using

the pencil tool.


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7. Create more brushes!Repeat

the last few steps and continue

to make a variety of brush

shapes and sizes. In general,

youll get the best-looking hair

with a rounded and random

scattering of the pixels in your

brush. But be sure to run testsof your own.

6. Heres the final step neces-

sary to make the brush work

correctly: From the Brushespalette, double-click on the

brush you just created. The

Brush Options dialog box will

appear. Set Spacing to 1 from

the default setting of 25.

Spacing determines the flow of

paint coming from the brush. If

the value is too high, the brush

strokes will not be continuous

and smooth. Try out different

values for the spacing. Itsalways good to experiment!

5. Its time to turn the

Photoshop image that youve

created into a brush. First,

select the entire image, Com-

mand/Ctrl+A. Next from the

Brushes palette select Define

Brush. The brush will be

appended to the existing set of

paintbrushes. If you have thepencil tool selected you will

not see the new brush until

you select the paintbrush tool.

Dont worry if you made a

mistake, simply select the

brush and delete it Command/

Ctrl-click.

ExperimentOpen a new file and

experiment with thepaintbrush and airbrush

tools. If the brush stroke

is gray check the

opacity setting in the

Paintbrush Options.

Note: The Anti-aliased

checkbox only becomes

available if the brush is

less than 32 x 32 pixels

in size. Anti-aliasing

adds a softer quality to

the brushes. Brushes

created with thisoption will make a nice

addition to your toolset

Super user hintTo move quickly

between brushes in the

Brushes palette, press

open ( [ ) or closed ( ] )

bracket to move to the

previous or next brush.


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Painting with Custom Brushes

1. Select an appropriate

subject perhaps one who is

somewhat less than hirsute.

Create a palette of colors from

the lightest to the darkest values

reflected in your subjects

existing hair. If the subject has

no hair at all, then create a colorpalette of your choice. Four

shades of color seems to work

well for this subject.

3. Next, well convert the path

to a feathered selection. The

correct feathering will make

the paint strokes blend into

the scalp at the edge of the

selection. From the Paths

palette pop-up menu, choose

Make Selection. In the MakeSelection dialog box, set a

value for Feather Radius. In

this project, I chose a value of 2.

However, this value depends

on the resolution of the image

youre working on. Run an

experiment to determine the

correct value for your image.

2. Define a new hairline for

your subject using the pen

tool. Create a path that en-closes the area where the hair

restoration will take place.

The path should bend and

curve into the existing hairline.

Keep in mind, defining a

working space with the pen

tool is not always necessary for

this project. Free-form paint-

ing without using a masked

area can deliver completely

different and intriguing results.

FeatheringUse just enough

feathering to make

the hair blend into

the scalp.

Naming pathsBe sure to name your

path that you havecreated. Simply double-

click on the Work Path

to change its name.


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4. After youve transformed the

path into a selection, the path

you started with still remains

visible. Deselect the path by

clicking below the name of the

path in the Paths palette.

Painting orderStart painting with

the darkest colorfrom the palette we

created earlier. Select

the color with the

Eyedropper tool and

make it your current

foreground color.

5. When creating hair, you

should always work on a new

layer and not on the back-ground image directly. Create

a new layer from the Layers

menu or Option/Alt click on

the create new layer icon and

name it appropriately.

6. Now the fun starts. Select the

airbrush tool with a Normal

mode setting and 100% pres-

sure. The airbrush seems to

work well for creating hair.

Next, choose one of the larger

brushes you created earlier.

Adjust the Fade setting on theAirbrush Options palette to

determine the length of your

hair. Start with small fade

amounts and build to larger.

Slowly lay in the hair with even

strokes. Start from the back of

the head and move forward

toward the hair line.

Heres an example of

the 64 x 64 pixel brush

used in this image.

Special note:Do not make the hair

a solid mass near the

hairline. Leave it a little

open and see through.

Click!


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7. Continue slowly painting

until you have a nice semi-

opaque base of dark hair.

Check to make sure that the

feathering of the edge you

chose earlier has a nice blend

into the scalp and that the hair

is not too dense near the

hairline. If your first attemptlooks a little bit like a bad hair

day, then make a new layer

and try it again. Practice

makes perfect.

The basicsHeres the basic

technique I used in

this project. Start with

the largest brush and

darkest color to set

down a base layer.

Then slowly move to

the smallest brush

and the lightest colorto create the high-

lights on the hair.

8. Now, to give the hair more

body and to make it a little bit

more realistic, were going toadd a drop shadow. Layer

Effects Drop Shadows are a new

feature only found in 5.0 or

later versions of Adobe

Photoshop. With the hair layer

targeted, choose from the Layer

menu Effects > Drop Shadow as

shown to the right.

Super user hint:While the Effects

dialog box is open, you

can adjust the angle

and distance of the

shadow directly on

your image. Just move

your cursor over the

image. Click and hold,and then move the

shadow around.

If you have multiple

layers of hair, then

using a common globa

angle will ensure that

the angle and distance

are always the same.

9. For this particular image,

I chose the values shown at

right. In general, you want to

enter values that best duplicate

the lighting and color of the

image youre working on.

Multiply is often the best mode

choice. Multiply blends theshadow with the background

as if they were two transparen-

cies on a light table. Next, click

once on the small default black

color patch in the Effects

dialog box. This allows you to

tint the shadow.

Click!


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10. The default shadow color in

Photoshop is black. However, if

you take a close look at real

shadows, theyre seldom black

or a neutral gray. They have

color and take on the character-

istics of the background image.

To obtain a more exact color,

sample the persons skin toneby moving the cursor over the

subjects image. In the Color

Picker, move the section to a

darker shade as shown here.

The color is always updated to

the screen, so check the results.

Then click OK to both dialogs.

11. Your results so far should

look something like this.

Notice how the hair has filledin and is starting to look a

little bit more realistic.

12. OK, so heres the secret

technique that gives you perfect

hair: Once you have created a

nicely shaped base image, turn

on Preserve Transparency on

the Layers palette. By doing

this, all additional brush strokes

will be confined to the DigitalHair layers shape. No matter

how much you try, you will not

be able to paint beyond the

Digital Hair layers edges. As

you experiment with painting

hair, you will see how useful

this technique is for controlling

your results.

Original skin color

Sampling colorsWith the Color Picker

dialog box open you

can sample colors with

the eyedropper tool

directly from your

image. Just move the

dialog box to the side

and place your cursor

over your image andclick. The sampled colo

will appear above the

current color.


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Painting Midtones

13. Select a midtone value from

the palette of colors you created

earlier. Using the same large

brush you used before and on

the same hair layer, continue to

add another value layer across

the hair. The goal is to build up

the midtones in the hair andmake sure that some of the

black tones still show through.

Heres an example of

the 64 x 64 pixel brush

used in this image.

MidtonesUse a large brush and

select a midtone value,

as shown to the left.

Then use the Airbrush

tool to add a second

level of tonal value to

the hair.

Heres an example of

the 32 by 32 pixel

brush used in this

image.

HighlightsUse a small brush and

select a highlight color,

as shown to the left.

Then use the airbrush

tool to add highlights

to the hair.

Painting Highlights

14. Next, using a smaller

airbrush and same hair layer,add highlights to the hair.

Adjusting the opacity of the

brushes can help blend the

colors and soften the

highlight colors.

Your final results complete your

digital make-over. Now youre

ready to head out into the

world with a great new look.

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Special thanks to Daniel Browand George Jardine forassistance with thedevelopment of this tip.

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