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| The first Technique in this Tutorial
will show you how simple it is to Create your own brush, which used
in combination with Photoshop's Paint engine will enable you to
Create custom image Hair Brushes. Later, we'll explore other avenues
to Create image Hair Brushes. |
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| 1.) Create a New file.
Go to File > New. Make it 100
X 100 pixels at 72 dpi in RGB Mode on a White Background. Now, press
D on the keyboard to set the Foreground Color to
Black. |
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2.) Select the Brush
tool  ,
then Right-Click on the work area to Open the Brush-Picker.
Select the Hard Round 1 pixels brush,
then press Enter on the keyboard to Close the library. |
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| Click a few spots in different areas.
Open the Brush-Picker again and Select the Soft
Round 3 pixels brush and click a time or two to Create randomness.
Switch between Hard and Soft Round brushes all 1-3 pixels as you
work until you have something similar as shown below. (The image
has been enlarged in the Red circle for viewing purposes.) |
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| 3.) Create the brush.
Go to Edit > Define Brush Preset.
When the dialog box appears, name it as you wish, then click OK
and it will be added as the last entry into the current Brush Library. |
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4.) Create a New file.
Go to File > New. Make it 600
X 600 pixels at 72 dpi in RGB Mode on a White Background. Go to
the Bottom of the Layers palette and click the
Create a new layer button 
to generate a New blank layer. |
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| 5.) This Technique
requires the use of Photoshop's paint engine. With the New brush
Selected, click the Brushes tab (located
Top Right) of program to Open the Brushes palette.
Click the Brush Tip Shape tab to Open
it's perimeters. Now, adjust the Spacing slider
way down until you get a good mix of varying depths of Color in
the strands to the Stroke. |
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| 6.) Go to the Options
bar and adjust Opacity to 30%. |
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Now, go to the work area and paint
a few wavy Strokes. Click the Foreground Color swatch and change
Color to a Dark Brown and paint a few more until you have something
similar as shown below (Left Image). Select the Erasure
tool 
and then erase areas you wish not to keep (Right Image). |
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7.) Next, hold the
Shift key and Tap O until the Dodge
tool 
becomes Selected. Go to the Options bar and adjust Range to Midtones
and Exposure to about 14%. |
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| Open the Brush-Picker
and change brush to the Soft Round 65 pixels
brush and Drag across the beginning edges of the Strokes about two
or three times (Left Image). Change Range to Highlights
and repeat in the same areas and the edges should end up with a
pretty good feathered end (Right Image). |
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| 8.) Create the New
Image brush. Go to Edit > Define Brush
preset. Name it as you wish and it will be included into
the library. |
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| Additional resources for Creating images
of hair can be found everywhere! Photo's can provide help and Magazine
images are a good place to start. Especially shampoo adds. Try to
find the largest images possible, they work best when it comes to
detail. When scanning into the computer from Magazines, always Select
the Reduce Moire Option located generally in your scanning program.
(This will reduce visibility to the tiny dots in the image Created
from printing.) |
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| Hairstyling Magazines such as this
make great resources for Hair sampling (*See Clone Stamped hair)
and offer much in the way of Templates for the production of image
Hair Brushes. |
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| Ads found such as these can be used
to quickly generate images for brushes. |
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| Here's the Technique I use to pull
images for Hair Brushes from a Magazine spread. We'll use a clip
from an image Above. I begin by Copying the clip onto a New Document
with a White Background (Left image). Using the Erasure with a Soft
Tip brush I initially erase the Outer perimeters to the area I wish
to keep (Center image). I then finish erasing the rest of the Outside
borders with a Hard Round brush (Right image). |
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| Starting at the Top I continue with
a Hard Round brush, I begin to contour the shape of the image i
wish to produce (Left image). You can certainly leave some edges
soft if you prefer. Using a combination of Hard and Soft Round brushes
I finish working toward the Bottom to complete the shape (Right
image). |
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| I decided to fix some distracting strands
of hair at the Top at this point. Holding the Ctrl key and clicking
on the layer in the Layers palette Creates a Selection
to the borders of the image. Now, switching to the Clone
Stamp tool, I positioned curser over a good area to sample
and held down the Alt key and clicked on the image to pull an image
hair sample to clone (Left image). Now, just clicking in the top
portion of the image clones (replaces) the New hair in place (Right
image). |
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| Using Ctrl+D to Deactivate
the Selection, I then continued sculpting the image with the eraser
to complete the image ready for brush making. |
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Copyright © 2006-2007 Glenn Schemenauer - Spacific
Designs™ - All rights reserved. |
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