Create Hair with Highlights in Photoshop
Sunday, July 19th, 2009 running time 18:23
Learn how to make beautiful, wavy, realistic hair in Adobe Photoshop using custom brushes
Hair details in Layers
Last week, Bert showed us how to create some of Cindy Crawford's lacy clothes. This week, we're taking a look at how to create her wispy hair, full of waves and highlights. The hair is made of many different layers. Each element of the hair -whether it be the base, the highlights, the dark areas, or the wisps - is placed in separate layers so we can manage the details.
Create a custom brush that resembles hair
First, create a brown base for the hair with a large, brown brush in a new layer. Then, create a new brush that that is made of small dots and in the brush settings, turn down the spacing to zero so that the brush is a set of continuous lines. Add a fade to the brush so that the hair ends after a certain length. Bert uses 800 to begin.
Loosely brush the hair base in a new layer using a dark color (black), and feel free to increase the length of the brush for longer hair. Repeat until you are satisfied with the look of the dark hair. In a new layer, use a lighter brown color and brush to create highlights. Repeat a dark haired layer on top of the highlights. Watch closely to see how Bert makes the highlights realistic by brushing the hair in the opposite direction. Add random wisps of hair to the edges, and eventually, you'll have a satisfying head of hair.
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" Wow."
" This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Well welcome depicts a perfect would need -- Conroy the show where it all kinds of things have happened. Today's show going to look at here. Going to create Cindy Crawford's hair. Based on what we saw last week we're gonna go and you can create all this tussle pairs -- all -- highlights and cool stuff but filled before we start. Let's talk about today's background. His background is brought to you by -- Kirby. Check out this thing. And and I -- back. So look at that that's a nice that can think we've all these of the way I feel like hair right all of these little we'd be I think there -- talk about it today. So we start let's thank our sponsors. Godaddy dot."
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" And yes you do have to type in that WWW. When using this code. On that ship. So now. On my screen here we have the Cindy Crawford -- billboard it was so last week that this has been. This could -- twist is in terms of stuff like that is more highlights as have to come to her face just to get it right. But we're gonna talk about today is here. There was a there was request a lot. Seems to be difficult as it gives you that in part because so much of it and -- so hard to do. How long time ago I did -- a show which I put some hair manages them for her. Well today I'm gonna create this particular here for you. -- to see how it it it gets done so that's pull up layers panel out here and look at this thing. So it back here and we see that we have. Turnover got a blank screen here and I've got a lot of layers right now everything is created in -- I've always done that way that lets look at her glasses differences go to him glasses and is he the little. -- who understand that that little piece right there it goes but -- the zoom on this and there's a frame. So is a frame for the glasses to some shapes and all the shape of course come from the path. And then we have the little light towns and you know that these are all clipped inside the shape of the frame and make -- group. That is the light tone of this of those streets all these little dark tones that appear in there his dark tones he's. Hard shadows that appear different areas. Busy up. Frame inner shadow which was actually a layer style which -- this highlight here it's called in the shadow because it was the list out. I change to colors from black to white to get these little highlights right along the edges in certain spots. And that we had these other little highlights that would keep that in separately and this -- the last. And the less we had the eyes of visible to -- to sizes -- barked home hint of the eyes and and his who glare on top of that. But it's the hair that we want to look at right so pull back a little more. And hair it is quite different layers of hair is wrong way back here. Which is is basic shape on publish it was the face of that on top of the phase where all these other Ayers appear. That's look at those. Here here's. Some highlights. Right there and he's a -- tones on top of that big black town this. -- lose one's fly away -- there and another when the whip on top there. Of the group but there's this highlights and another batch here going across the forehead and and his last one. On top of that all these little things to -- and various layers multiple layers. Everything -- put in separate layers that makes it easier to fix things later. And again it is right if you brought to a lot of strokes as this requires a lot of different strokes you wanna be able to have that ability to go in there and fix things later so putting every little -- it's been in a separate layer makes it a lot easier to make those phases later. So it's going -- create power here for this particular piece now. I got here. There just the face there's a face so on top but it is we're gonna start to Korea are here now. In a layer behind it and Italy are right behind me here this they have we'll call it care. Hair. Mean. Okay we'll call it -- Maine that's that main dark area -- back and let's -- nice the kind of a brownish color. Though the really deep color like about that right there and -- back it's just start creating the basic. Sections of the here that I wish has going to start the fit. So -- donated this kind of -- this here. And here like that and W -- but shorter haircut this time. With them with this stuff going and so it is kind of basically creating the basic shape of how to here is going to be. Right there ago. There's going to have to be."
" The basic shape. Dark tone also becomes the the far back hair that thickness of the air traffic going in and make sure that every little. And in -- tiny little space between your hair follicles is filled with something no because I have this basic color in the back. Right so we got this tone happening. Right so now. Above the faces were gonna start to create polls are individual hairs so go with -- black. And because remember when you're creating a brush it black we'll make that brush opaque familiar and make a really small brush. Go about it free as is gonna create a bunch of little dots here. To some dots. Like that. Those stocks will become the here. And select those right there and say define brush. And we'll call it. Here."
" As a -- totally."
" And I really -- is. There which we're gonna call. Care and to be a few of these of the securities and get that brush. That is created which -- appear at the bottom listed there it is and it creates this little streak like that senator go to my brush engine. My idea of -- the -- down to zero. Write to 1% actually which is gonna give is that. Now that alone is not quite there I'm gonna go in there. And give -- other dynamics and have it run out of pain and save in capacity if you're 500 is gonna do let's. Not long enough so let's make this even longer let's go 800 that's it that's gonna give us something that's a little better right there 800. So now. Now to have that and that later that created there are going to reduce the size of my brush a little bit is -- go and yeah it's very likely to start. Throwing in a bunch of lists right in there along the edges you can see them doing it very loosely. So I'm just doing one on top of another just to get a little softness story here down below there and let's go to little further as. Going down. In all these little hairs now appear a two stroke bunch just curving and around the and getting pretty loose the I'm not doing this tightly. And I'm I didn't want to increase that that link now because it does Longstreet. Here but -- bring this up to say thirteen hundred that you get with a really."
" Longs."
" stereo so I'm going here and just creating all these little. Those wipes and a going across her to her. -- here undecided number it does layers in front angle and that's gonna create a whole bunch of these I just keep going I'm very loosely. Doing this -- have any -- guys up there. And that's to a couple here. Getting this here and let's throw a couple across the front like this. They -- it's -- very light to go through here and create all these little hairs. Bunch of -- the more you do it the more chaotic it looks the better and more like real here -- going to look. I'm getting old is here happening right to elect so and that's going to start filling this until we no longer see that harsh edge in the back -- hits us to look for fear. Date there ago. -- all the stuff happening here has gone down here fill this whole area up. We get this nice thing happened down there and is going in to fill in this whole thing up and a year ago -- now. Passes -- these goods that never get all this stuff happening like that there go from our that the basic shape for air. And those few more now comes highlights which going to really start to give it. Moreover realistic look so I get a little closer here and -- light of color so it's going here and pick it's kind of like a -- color I like that that looks good case so I get my brush. And -- right now it's going to do that kind of thing so want to do is I'm gonna just kind of throwing him. A bunch of little streak strengthen here. -- just like that. Couple more. In there just like excel will come down here and for a couple down here. It they're like that. Couple more and maybe if you right through here. -- The area all these nice so street's summer do you want to throw a couple up in there and there and raised in there like that. So now I'm gonna go back to his dark color. Hello my option key alt on a PC and that the pick up color right now we're just. Why don't hospitals throw a couple of the black streaks breakthrough there like so the house serves to blend those guys in Northbrook couple that in here. And right around here just a few breakthrough they like that effect that we got that list no -- to hear this and move to. Pronounces their okay there we got that so now going to get a much smaller. Brush it's been this way down to about. Let's say 200. That's a small one it's gonna run out of -- much quicker and so now I'm gonna go in here and start. Read these edges here and then pulled this way on this side and it just became this little highlight there through a couple of them -- here. And here. Just kind of very lightly start to bring attention. To those highlights. It has become these little soft edges right through -- and right appear to throw a couple. And through there says some of those highlights we'll start to blend better. With our hair. And go up and down here. The important. Vote it looks like I'm just leaving hair pulling up into where my highlights are state. That it and I we've got all these little highlights that a filled in just what we need him it so now. I'm going to do is get a much smaller brush or really small brush. Really tiny and just broke up a little with here and there and do that on it brings back up to about that -- 900. And I just kind of throw a couple of little. -- endemic -- smaller now and that's treatment the couple some have a a couple of little twists here and there. And I want to go on them to -- one like that. And smaller. As the one in there and this tool to build a couple times so that we'll have this. Thicker little bunch right there and maybe one in here and a little smaller. And another one right there and one in there like that. And one right up there which is kinda. Loosen these guys up like that they've. Real tiny little ones when -- right in this for that -- curve. Now there's a really loose little fly away here's the really loose ones so it to do with that is simply going to get out paintbrush. I use a single. Point brush which right now does that okay so we might want to give that a little love. Dynamics here so given little -- haven't made it 900 to sit -- and I was gonna run out of pain at some point that it -- get 800. Alex is going managed just throw little hairs here and there can close them to see what happens here. Okay so I'm going here and that would have questions is gonna very loosely through a couple little hairs that are just coming out. -- very loose. That London started at -- ago started in there and went down here. And when it's coming like that. And once going like what's going I decided very loose because that's what happens when you get the wind blowing in the air like this. And we'll -- couple of those close up on top just little hairs that it has been. Blown away. By the wind. And depending on where suddenly it longer or shorter because they've got that fate happening. And what to store a couple of in here like so and maybe couples coming out like that and we pull back we see that we have. This wild fly -- hair that looks fairly real. Fairly natural because of the fact that I -- basically creating many many little follicles of hair. Now what really makes it look good is the fact that those highlights were added in there to the highlights can't look like they were. Painted in there so they have to be blended after the highlight was put them. Put some dark one's on top of them so that cross across the across the highlighted here so again it looks like there's many different little follicles and then. The parts where the highlights start and end I've -- it goes even further with a smaller brush that just have. Put little dark homes in the air. Reducing the size in the shape of that highlight that make it look a little more natural. Now there's a lot of listeners to this is very important that it is as if you're if you ever shaking hand you're not very good controlling them out to buy the stock has served boot. Wacom mustn't take. That I suggest you use paths Kabila mart labour intensive but if you remember way back when I did they have before actually created path that will guiding the brush. In this particular case the moves this is important. So. Go -- there and do as many streets as possible just to get that here who -- just the way it'll nicest move like that and very natural looking here. Okay so if you wanna see. My show today what it looked like be had here again you going to take some pictures and -- was something. This question of creating the proper brushed and then controlling -- brush. To make it look like natural here. Now organized something from that there's anything you'd like to see on the show. Email me at -- at Revision 3 com or signature got a form of ideas there and revision3.com. Forward slash form. They could join discussions about the show and tell me what to go about the hair and so want. I want to thank god turbulence again for submitting this incredible background -- look at it one more time. -- And beautiful job done and I was really good if you want to see your stuff back here is that it is green screen. You're just -- to fill up this whole screen back here and have your name plays and screen for the entire world to see. In -- well I get emails from Africa Israel. Germany all over the place of people have seen the stuff everywhere I don't see your name right there on the screen. Send your stuff to -- and revision3.com. And your images should be twelve maybe I seven point pixels and saved as a JPEG. Hope it has not demo this at their -- that's what I learned this stuff has this -- like what to show and then play have fun. -- question go crazy with them as regular. Hope to see you next week."
" Wow."
" This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Well welcome depicts a perfect would need -- Conroy the show where it all kinds of things have happened. Today's show going to look at here. Going to create Cindy Crawford's hair. Based on what we saw last week we're gonna go and you can create all this tussle pairs -- all -- highlights and cool stuff but filled before we start. Let's talk about today's background. His background is brought to you by -- Kirby. Check out this thing. And and I -- back. So look at that that's a nice that can think we've all these of the way I feel like hair right all of these little we'd be I think there -- talk about it today. So we start let's thank our sponsors. Godaddy dot."
" Com godaddy.com makes it easy to customize your own virtual dedicated server. -- is one of three popular plans or select your own Linux or windows server with all the plan options that you need. Into the code pixel three when you check out and you will get. -- domain name -- seven dollars and 49 cents that's not a misprint 749. Be sure to check out revision3.com. Forward slash GoDaddy what all the pixel perfect godaddy deals and -- there's a whole bunch of them in there. Also let's thank Netflix. Our bank of the sponsoring up it's a perfect -- with next fix. You can rent over 90000. Titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. The Netflix plans start from four dollars and 99 cents. And as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership check it out at www. Netflix.com. Forward slash pixel perfect."
" And yes you do have to type in that WWW. When using this code. On that ship. So now. On my screen here we have the Cindy Crawford -- billboard it was so last week that this has been. This could -- twist is in terms of stuff like that is more highlights as have to come to her face just to get it right. But we're gonna talk about today is here. There was a there was request a lot. Seems to be difficult as it gives you that in part because so much of it and -- so hard to do. How long time ago I did -- a show which I put some hair manages them for her. Well today I'm gonna create this particular here for you. -- to see how it it it gets done so that's pull up layers panel out here and look at this thing. So it back here and we see that we have. Turnover got a blank screen here and I've got a lot of layers right now everything is created in -- I've always done that way that lets look at her glasses differences go to him glasses and is he the little. -- who understand that that little piece right there it goes but -- the zoom on this and there's a frame. So is a frame for the glasses to some shapes and all the shape of course come from the path. And then we have the little light towns and you know that these are all clipped inside the shape of the frame and make -- group. That is the light tone of this of those streets all these little dark tones that appear in there his dark tones he's. Hard shadows that appear different areas. Busy up. Frame inner shadow which was actually a layer style which -- this highlight here it's called in the shadow because it was the list out. I change to colors from black to white to get these little highlights right along the edges in certain spots. And that we had these other little highlights that would keep that in separately and this -- the last. And the less we had the eyes of visible to -- to sizes -- barked home hint of the eyes and and his who glare on top of that. But it's the hair that we want to look at right so pull back a little more. And hair it is quite different layers of hair is wrong way back here. Which is is basic shape on publish it was the face of that on top of the phase where all these other Ayers appear. That's look at those. Here here's. Some highlights. Right there and he's a -- tones on top of that big black town this. -- lose one's fly away -- there and another when the whip on top there. Of the group but there's this highlights and another batch here going across the forehead and and his last one. On top of that all these little things to -- and various layers multiple layers. Everything -- put in separate layers that makes it easier to fix things later. And again it is right if you brought to a lot of strokes as this requires a lot of different strokes you wanna be able to have that ability to go in there and fix things later so putting every little -- it's been in a separate layer makes it a lot easier to make those phases later. So it's going -- create power here for this particular piece now. I got here. There just the face there's a face so on top but it is we're gonna start to Korea are here now. In a layer behind it and Italy are right behind me here this they have we'll call it care. Hair. Mean. Okay we'll call it -- Maine that's that main dark area -- back and let's -- nice the kind of a brownish color. Though the really deep color like about that right there and -- back it's just start creating the basic. Sections of the here that I wish has going to start the fit. So -- donated this kind of -- this here. And here like that and W -- but shorter haircut this time. With them with this stuff going and so it is kind of basically creating the basic shape of how to here is going to be. Right there ago. There's going to have to be."
" The basic shape. Dark tone also becomes the the far back hair that thickness of the air traffic going in and make sure that every little. And in -- tiny little space between your hair follicles is filled with something no because I have this basic color in the back. Right so we got this tone happening. Right so now. Above the faces were gonna start to create polls are individual hairs so go with -- black. And because remember when you're creating a brush it black we'll make that brush opaque familiar and make a really small brush. Go about it free as is gonna create a bunch of little dots here. To some dots. Like that. Those stocks will become the here. And select those right there and say define brush. And we'll call it. Here."
" As a -- totally."
" And I really -- is. There which we're gonna call. Care and to be a few of these of the securities and get that brush. That is created which -- appear at the bottom listed there it is and it creates this little streak like that senator go to my brush engine. My idea of -- the -- down to zero. Write to 1% actually which is gonna give is that. Now that alone is not quite there I'm gonna go in there. And give -- other dynamics and have it run out of pain and save in capacity if you're 500 is gonna do let's. Not long enough so let's make this even longer let's go 800 that's it that's gonna give us something that's a little better right there 800. So now. Now to have that and that later that created there are going to reduce the size of my brush a little bit is -- go and yeah it's very likely to start. Throwing in a bunch of lists right in there along the edges you can see them doing it very loosely. So I'm just doing one on top of another just to get a little softness story here down below there and let's go to little further as. Going down. In all these little hairs now appear a two stroke bunch just curving and around the and getting pretty loose the I'm not doing this tightly. And I'm I didn't want to increase that that link now because it does Longstreet. Here but -- bring this up to say thirteen hundred that you get with a really."
" Longs."
" stereo so I'm going here and just creating all these little. Those wipes and a going across her to her. -- here undecided number it does layers in front angle and that's gonna create a whole bunch of these I just keep going I'm very loosely. Doing this -- have any -- guys up there. And that's to a couple here. Getting this here and let's throw a couple across the front like this. They -- it's -- very light to go through here and create all these little hairs. Bunch of -- the more you do it the more chaotic it looks the better and more like real here -- going to look. I'm getting old is here happening right to elect so and that's going to start filling this until we no longer see that harsh edge in the back -- hits us to look for fear. Date there ago. -- all the stuff happening here has gone down here fill this whole area up. We get this nice thing happened down there and is going in to fill in this whole thing up and a year ago -- now. Passes -- these goods that never get all this stuff happening like that there go from our that the basic shape for air. And those few more now comes highlights which going to really start to give it. Moreover realistic look so I get a little closer here and -- light of color so it's going here and pick it's kind of like a -- color I like that that looks good case so I get my brush. And -- right now it's going to do that kind of thing so want to do is I'm gonna just kind of throwing him. A bunch of little streak strengthen here. -- just like that. Couple more. In there just like excel will come down here and for a couple down here. It they're like that. Couple more and maybe if you right through here. -- The area all these nice so street's summer do you want to throw a couple up in there and there and raised in there like that. So now I'm gonna go back to his dark color. Hello my option key alt on a PC and that the pick up color right now we're just. Why don't hospitals throw a couple of the black streaks breakthrough there like so the house serves to blend those guys in Northbrook couple that in here. And right around here just a few breakthrough they like that effect that we got that list no -- to hear this and move to. Pronounces their okay there we got that so now going to get a much smaller. Brush it's been this way down to about. Let's say 200. That's a small one it's gonna run out of -- much quicker and so now I'm gonna go in here and start. Read these edges here and then pulled this way on this side and it just became this little highlight there through a couple of them -- here. And here. Just kind of very lightly start to bring attention. To those highlights. It has become these little soft edges right through -- and right appear to throw a couple. And through there says some of those highlights we'll start to blend better. With our hair. And go up and down here. The important. Vote it looks like I'm just leaving hair pulling up into where my highlights are state. That it and I we've got all these little highlights that a filled in just what we need him it so now. I'm going to do is get a much smaller brush or really small brush. Really tiny and just broke up a little with here and there and do that on it brings back up to about that -- 900. And I just kind of throw a couple of little. -- endemic -- smaller now and that's treatment the couple some have a a couple of little twists here and there. And I want to go on them to -- one like that. And smaller. As the one in there and this tool to build a couple times so that we'll have this. Thicker little bunch right there and maybe one in here and a little smaller. And another one right there and one in there like that. And one right up there which is kinda. Loosen these guys up like that they've. Real tiny little ones when -- right in this for that -- curve. Now there's a really loose little fly away here's the really loose ones so it to do with that is simply going to get out paintbrush. I use a single. Point brush which right now does that okay so we might want to give that a little love. Dynamics here so given little -- haven't made it 900 to sit -- and I was gonna run out of pain at some point that it -- get 800. Alex is going managed just throw little hairs here and there can close them to see what happens here. Okay so I'm going here and that would have questions is gonna very loosely through a couple little hairs that are just coming out. -- very loose. That London started at -- ago started in there and went down here. And when it's coming like that. And once going like what's going I decided very loose because that's what happens when you get the wind blowing in the air like this. And we'll -- couple of those close up on top just little hairs that it has been. Blown away. By the wind. And depending on where suddenly it longer or shorter because they've got that fate happening. And what to store a couple of in here like so and maybe couples coming out like that and we pull back we see that we have. This wild fly -- hair that looks fairly real. Fairly natural because of the fact that I -- basically creating many many little follicles of hair. Now what really makes it look good is the fact that those highlights were added in there to the highlights can't look like they were. Painted in there so they have to be blended after the highlight was put them. Put some dark one's on top of them so that cross across the across the highlighted here so again it looks like there's many different little follicles and then. The parts where the highlights start and end I've -- it goes even further with a smaller brush that just have. Put little dark homes in the air. Reducing the size in the shape of that highlight that make it look a little more natural. Now there's a lot of listeners to this is very important that it is as if you're if you ever shaking hand you're not very good controlling them out to buy the stock has served boot. Wacom mustn't take. That I suggest you use paths Kabila mart labour intensive but if you remember way back when I did they have before actually created path that will guiding the brush. In this particular case the moves this is important. So. Go -- there and do as many streets as possible just to get that here who -- just the way it'll nicest move like that and very natural looking here. Okay so if you wanna see. My show today what it looked like be had here again you going to take some pictures and -- was something. This question of creating the proper brushed and then controlling -- brush. To make it look like natural here. Now organized something from that there's anything you'd like to see on the show. Email me at -- at Revision 3 com or signature got a form of ideas there and revision3.com. Forward slash form. They could join discussions about the show and tell me what to go about the hair and so want. I want to thank god turbulence again for submitting this incredible background -- look at it one more time. -- And beautiful job done and I was really good if you want to see your stuff back here is that it is green screen. You're just -- to fill up this whole screen back here and have your name plays and screen for the entire world to see. In -- well I get emails from Africa Israel. Germany all over the place of people have seen the stuff everywhere I don't see your name right there on the screen. Send your stuff to -- and revision3.com. And your images should be twelve maybe I seven point pixels and saved as a JPEG. Hope it has not demo this at their -- that's what I learned this stuff has this -- like what to show and then play have fun. -- question go crazy with them as regular. Hope to see you next week."
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