[jbeck]

Hi,

I tried to draw hair, but this is hard with the mouse... I wondered how to do it like Dhabih... And his glowing effects ? Do you use just Photoshop transparency with bright colored round brushes ?

[chalker]

For the hair thingie..
Do a search for hair on this forum, because your question is not rarely asked..

the glowy thing I dunno ..

grz -Chalk-

[Nex]

Hair search There: http://www.sijun.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?action=intro&default=2

Glow: don't Know

[Loki]

Here's an easy way to do a general glow. You can refine/adjust/modify this technique - but it's a good start:

You want the highlights of your image to have a glow, showing that they're the brightest spots in the image:

1. If you have layers in your image, 'select all' and choose 'copy merged' from the edit menu. Paste the image as top layer.

2. Use either 'curves' (I prefer this) or 'brightness contrast' to darken the whole image to black, EXCEPT the highlights. You can also use 'threshold', but I prefer curves since they allow you more control.

3. You should end up with a mostly black image that has some white spots in it. You'll notive that some of the highlights have a very saturated color - that happens when you do drastic colorcorrs.

4. Use 'hue/saturation' to pull most of that saturation out. Don't touch the brightness slider though ...

5. Make a gaussian blur over the image - don't blur it too much - otherwise little highlights won't get any glow. The ammount of blur will determine the diameter of the glow. The more you blur, the weaker the highlights get though.

6. Switch the layer to 'screen' and voila - you should have a decent glow going!


You might want to copy that layer, and use two on top of each other to get a stronger glow, or you can make two passes - on for a narrow strong glow, the other one for a bigger softer halo.
Just be aware, that if you overdo it, your image will get too bright, too blown out, too saturated, etc ...
Just use the layer opacity to adjust them as you need ...

That's all folks ...

[Binke]

OR you could you use Color dodge setting and/or Screen settings with the soft brushes
With a good use of layers of course.