Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: My first hair painting...

semidieu opened this issue on Mar 28, 2004 ยท 13 posts


hauksdottir posted Thu, 01 April 2004 at 7:47 AM

There are hair brushes, which you can buy. However, if you have PhotoShop 7 or above, you can adjust the brushes which come with the program and get a lot of mileage from them. First, load all those extra brush sets. [ and ] will shrink or enlarge the brush size on the fly so you can change between strokes. You can take a bunch of little slashes or dots and change their dispersion and angle and all sorts of stuff. After you have played enough with what you have, and understand how the brushes work, then you can more readily decide among the Marketplace brush sets. (Those are good for adding pearls or magical stars or other things which don't come in PS itself.) First, a couple of general comments about the image: you appear to be missing a portion of tree trunk above her right shoulder (something is cut off abruptly there). Also, if you are using a richly-textured photo for the sky above the trees, you should use the cloning/healing tools to bring some of that texture below the tree branches, too. So some tips on your hair above. Remember that highlights are based upon your light sources. With trees in silhouette, it would seem that most light is behind her, except that some light is coming from the front. Can't tell from the eyes with the fake painted-on highlights (it is in the texture map, and I have complained about this practice often). Determine where your light sources are. Paint from dark to light, and put the light hairs where they would catch the light. The hairs you have going over her face all read much the same for length and thickness of clumps. Vary the strand size. If all the hair is 18" from crown to tip, then the ones falling over her forehead should be longer, too. Unless her hair is dyed, the eyebrows and head hairs are usually the same colors. (Beard color might be darker, but eyebrows match for the most part.) HTH, Carolly