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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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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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