Friday, November 20, 2015
Beard with Photoshop
I have been asked to post a tutorial on creating a beard. You can make a clean shaven person bearded with the help of a brush that is found in all versions of Photoshop. It is quite easy to do. Just follow the steps.

Step 1 : I have opened this free stock photo of a clean shaven man. I will add the beard.


Step 2 : In the Layers panel you will find only a single layer -- the Background layer with a thumbnail of the image.








The site is http://www.sxc.hu/index.html After you have applied the settings click where the blue arrow points to and the Brushes pallette will disappear. (It looks a bit different in Photoshop7). To make the Brush Tip small press the [ (Left Bracket key) and to make it bigger ] (Right Bracket Key). You will be required to switch between a large and a small brush tip constantly.

Make sure that Foreground Color is set to Black and Background to White. If it is not press 'x' then 'd' on your keyboard.










Step 16 : As soon as you click on Reset Brushes this dialogue box opens. Click OK.

Step 17 : In the Brushes pallette uncheck Shape Dynamics and Scattering. The pallette then will look like as above. Close the dialogue box as shown in Step 8.


Step 19 : When you click where the arow points to it opens the Brush presets. I have clicked on Brush 13. It is a hard brush. In the controls above you can see that Hardness is set to 0% and Master Diameter to 13 pixels.
Step 20 : With the brush tool gently erase parts of the moustache that have overlapped onto the lips and beside the chin. You can erase because a layer mask is in place.
The clean shaven man now has a beard. Easy is it not? Now what do you do if you want a greyish beard. You can do that too.
Step 1 : Bring up the Brushes pallette. Check Shape Dynamics, Scattering and also Color Dynamics. Close the pallette.

Step 2 : Click on the White Background color.

Step 3 : This brings up the Color Picker. Click on a Grey shade at the left. Click ok in the Color Picker.

Step 4 : The Background Color has changed to gray.

Step 5 : Paint the beard and moustache.




Step 8 : And now he has a white beard. You can make the color of the beard color you want. That is all. Try is out.
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