hair advice needed

[supjak]

I have few images with hair like attached sample shows. The only one option is long cloning tool work? Maybe there's some faster [it doesn't need to be high end] way to get nice hair?

[jesterjeni]

I cut a selection of good hair using copy paste and then puppet warp to fill the gaps, then the content aware fill to make it match!!

[supjak]

Thank you for answer

[Daviskw]

It is also easy to make a quick hair brush and add some dark, medium, light strokes...just takes a few seconds.

Butch

[jesterjeni]

how do you make a quick hairbrush? your hair looks smoother than mine?

[Daviskw]

Zoom in a little

Fill a blank layer with white

Get a hard black brush and make a some dots maybe 7 to 10..no pattern necessary fairly close together.

Now make a selection around the dots and make a brush.

Delete the layer

In the brush engine change the spacing to 1

Transfer to 250 or so...up to you

Ready to go...#11 is the brush I made and I used.

Start with dark and on different layers use lighter colors...then with a single round brush on pen pressure draw a few stray hairs.

Butch

[jesterjeni]

I never thought to do that!, I thought you had to use an actual pice of hair...like a patch ...I will have to give this a try...thank you!

[supjak]

It's what I was looking for. Fast, simple and producing good result. Thank you

[Just Kit]

Originally Posted by Daviskw

Zoom in a little



In the brush engine change the spacing to 1

Transfer to 250 or so...up to you



Butch

Butch (also the name of my Springer Spaniel lol).. could you tell me where to change the Transfer to 250? What should the opacity and flow jitter be? I love it! Thank you!

[Daviskw]

whoof whoof whooof whoof whoof

Butch

[Daviskw]

lol... In the brush engine CS5 click on transfer and set to fade then 250. The reason I used 250 is only to get the stroke to cover the area I want and fade to nothing. Different areas will require different fade amounts.

I keep opacity and flow at 100 percent.

Give me a minute and i will try and find a link to a tutorial by Bert Monroy.

Butch

[Daviskw]

I think THIS is it.

Butch

[Just Kit]

Originally Posted by Daviskw

lol... In the brush engine CS5 click on transfer and set to fade then 250. The reason I used 250 is only to get the stroke to cover the area I want and fade to nothing. Different areas will require different fade amounts.

I keep opacity and flow at 100 percent.

Give me a minute and i will try and find a link to a tutorial by Bert Monroy.

Butch

here butchy! oh sorry. lol

I cheated and made a copy of your #11 brush then pasted it on a layer and turned it to a smart object. Then I enlarged it and made a new blank layer above it so I could put my brush marks in the exact same space as yours. Then made my brush. It's Brilliant! Can't wait to see the tute. Thanks for going through the trouble.

[Just Kit]

Wow, spectacular video Butch, thank you for teaching me something new. I see that Bert used 800 fade but I like your 250 better.

[nebulaoperator]

I have been given advice ones when looking for hair plug-in. Since this thread been for a while you might be familiar with some techniques i will post a link about:
Making hair in photoshop.
1) http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/hair
2)http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/hair2

I have successfully used those techniques

[Just Kit]

Thank you very much for those two links, they were awesome.

[chillin]

I would use frequency separation & copy/paste samples from the high frequency layer.