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Afro-hair hair brushes

  • February 14, 2012
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Hello everyone,

Can someone please tell me how can I create an afro-hair photoshop brushes for digital painting. I've searched the net but cannot find anything.

Any reply would be much appreciated.

Many thanks in advance

helen

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    helen2263Author
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    February 14, 2012

    I've had great replies if you all dont mind I show exactly what I am after and wonder if I can create a brush similar to the painted little's boy hair. I am doing a digital painting for type hair like that and it would be great to create a hair brush to use when I am painting the afro hair.

    http://deardorfftraining.com/galleries/creative-portrait-painting-techniques-for-photoshop/

    Can anyone tell me if it's possible to create.

    thanks

    helen

    c.pfaffenbichler
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    February 15, 2012

    I am doing a digital painting for type hair like that and it would be great to create a hair brush to use when I am painting the afro hair.

    Are you familiar with the Mixer Brush Tool? With a curly brush tip that may work for some of the foundation when working over a photograph.

    But basically I guess something like this may need a lot of individual (pressure sensitive) strokes with the Brush Tool or maybe the Smudge Tool.

    Participant
    February 15, 2012

    Hi guys,

    Interesting to see this discussion.

    I agree, texture generators have been very underrepresented in Photoshop. The last new one was the Fibers filter, which has a few very specific uses but is limited in its effect. I've been pushing for a reworked Wave filter for literally years, but it's not top of Adobe's list of priorities right now.

    What sort of texture generation tools are you after? Can you give me some examples of the type of texture you'd like to produce, and the sort of interface that could generate it?

    Happy to help out here, and lend my limited weight to the discussion.

    Steve

    c.pfaffenbichler
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    February 14, 2012

    If you are looking to create a brush tip of a serpentine line with randomization you could

    • reset fore- and background colors

    • use Filter > Render > Clouds

    • create a harsh Gradient Map Adjustment Layer

    • isolate a segment

    • Edit > Define Brush Preset

    • set the proper Shape Dynamics (and possibly Color Dynamics, too)

    • Create new brush

    PECourtejoie
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    February 14, 2012
    helen2263Author
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    February 14, 2012

    PECourtejoie

    Thanks for the link I’ve downloaded the brush it’s very useful

    helen