how do you make a good hair texture

i was just wondering how to make a good hair texture in photoshop

hi,
there is a lot of answer for your request in the forums, try to launch a find about hair.

I have found some free tools to draw realistic hair or fur in PS, look at this thread

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good luck!

I use Painter and Photoshop to create some of the hair textures I apply to my skins.

I start by creating a few simple brush strokes in Painter using a line spray airbrush on a standard brush tool.

Painter sample 1 (low quality jpeg and simulated canvas texture added for copy protection)

Painter sample 2 (low quality jpeg and simulated canvas texture added for copy protection)


Then I save out layered files with the brush strokes on a transparent layer. I go into Photoshop, open the files and perform a few distortion filters like Wave and Ripple to kink the hairs a bit, do some transforms to get the desired shape and merge the transparent layers. I then have some nice facial and body hair samples I can reduce and apply to my skin templates.

Photoshop sample 1 (low quality jpeg and simulated canvas texture added for copy protection)

Photoshop sample 2 (low quality jpeg and simulated canvas texture added for copy protection)


Note that the above technique is not for doing Prim hair. Prim hair textures are very easy to generate with Noise filters, Motion Blur, and Curves adjusts in Photoshop.

This example I spent about 30 seconds generating in Photoshop. It's crude, but shows what I mean.

Prim hair generated in Photoshop

Vicious Volos has a much nicer example here:

Prim hair texture

Referenced from this rather lengthy thread

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