Hi! This is Mama Shan with the tutorial on how to create a hair patch. This is just the process that maybe a little bit different for your particular image but what I am going to do here is create a patch in this area that split by the bangs. Now, that I think it is absolutely necessary to do that, this mainly is to show you how to work this.
You would think since you are making a patch that you should get the patch tool, but that is not the tool of choice in this particular procedure because it would be patching over areas of great contrast which will cause a big bad smear.
So, I am just going to do get the Lasso tool here and make sure that there is no feather on it, but have anti-alias check. And, the first icon over here is to setup a new selection.
And, what I am going to do is grab some good area of hair, just a rough selection of it just like this, and then come over here to the layers palette, and simply hit Ctrl+J which is going to jump a copy of just that patch to a new layer, on a Macintosh, that would be Command J.
I am going to get the Move Tool, it does not look like you have anything additional right now, and that is because it is directly over that area. But, I am going to move it over to this area here, and what I am going to do is add a Conceal All Mask on it too. I could do this reveal out or conceal but I am going to hide it for right now then brush back in the hair where I might need it.
So, hold down your Alt key on a PC, Option on Mac, and click the mask icon to add it to layer one. And then, grab a brush and with white as the foreground color, we are going to reveal it now because white reveals, black conceals,
So, I am just going to paint in this area at a hundred percent, that is important to make sure your brush is at hundred percent flow on opacity, just the normal airbrush. And so, it is going to paint some hair in these areas, and then hit the X key to mask it off because there is going to be some areas we are going to have mask off like that.
And, let us look it before and after here, I can see in it to come in just a little bit here to kill that overspray of it. I can do another patch by taking some of this hair if I want, and bring it down also. I am going to shut the visibility of this first patch layer off. Again, highlight the source layer that got the hair, grab the Lasso Tool and I am just going to grab some of this here. And again, Ctrl+J on a PC, Command J on a Macintosh and that is going to give me that little patch appear here, and get the Move Tool, maybe this over here, that is a—now, because that other layer is on top, it is going to take precedence over that. So, if I want to use this number two-patch layer, I can bring it on top here, and. also transform it with a Ctrl+T on a PC, Command T on Macintosh. And, twirl it so that the angle of the hairs are going in the general direction that I want. I can also click on the warp option and the top options bar, which will allow me to push some of that around in more of an irregular area, just like this, and then commit it.
Now, I got to add a mask to this, I am just going to add a regular mask to this, a white reveal all mask by clicking the mask icon without any modifier keys. And, with black is the foreground color and a brush, and an airbrush, you want that soft edging on the brush so that it makes that blend. So, just go around the edges here like that so that you give it a better blend.
And so, here, we have before and after, and you can take a little bit more time, make other patches if you need them etceteras.
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