Photoshop Hair Tutorial

This is a quick and easy way to make hair in photoshop. I don't know if it's actually the simplest way or the easiest cuz I just stumbled onto it by accident. It's quick and hopefully to the point tutorial done in photoshop 7 one of hopefully many Photoshop tutorials to come.

First step start up photoshop DUH!!!

Next your gonna start a new image and make it at 200X200. Remember this only a sample to get you started.

Next you wanna seclick on the paintbucket tool with whatever color you wanna make the hair. I chose yellow because it's a bright and purty color

Now choose a black color and click on the brush tool. You wanna change the brush size to just 1 px so that we get the thinnest lines possible. If you don't know how change the brush size look at the image below. Just that bar to the far left to change it to one. Make sure it's a solid brush.

Next your gonna draw lines all across in an angle it doesn't have to be perfect look at mine for gods sake.

Next you wanna select the burn tool. It's the little talking hand icon that you see on the bottom left. If you don't see it then right click on the dodge button or sponge then click on it to select it. You wanna make sure the brush size is 90 and range is highlights and exposure is 60% You can always change this obcourse to experiment but for now lets set it to this.

Then you wanna darken the middle and the sides in a cross angle like so just start clicking away hurry I don't have all day. Just make it look like my pic below make it look like that roughtly.

You can add a render light to hightlight the bright spots but were not gonna do that now you can if you want.

Right now you just wanna add some noise I have it at 20 for the the amount. You go to filter >noise then click on add noise

Next you wanna click on filter> blur> motion blur and set the angle acordingly lined up with the angle of the black hair lines. Distance set it to 15 again you can do more or less if you want to experiment a little but for now it's 15 for me and you.

Basically that's it your done look at your results it looks like hair. You can actually go further and add some lighting from here like so. Just go to filter> render> lighting effects. Just set parameters like I have them below. You can always experiment with them and change some of those parameters around to see what results you get.

You might get some results like I did. After you add the lighting add another motion blur at the same angle you had it at before.

You can make it look more detailed if you add more black thin lines the more the better if you want the more realistic approach. You can also try using the dodge tool to add a little white highlight to not make your color too bright or too dark if you chose like a dark brown. You might get some good result here's what I got for the final experiment.

It works good no matter the angle you use so just play around with it a bit. When you add the motion blurs make sure it goes according to your angle. I'm sure you'll get better results than I did.

There you have it you can add more or take out some stuff and there or add some lighting effects here and there. So there you have it.

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