Shortest my hair will get willingly

[Bagel]

picture taken with my phone, edited in photoshop aprox. 2hrs

 

[Trance97]

I think it would look good a lot shorter with spikey hair.

How did you do that in photoshop btw?

 

[lemon]

*runs from long hair*

 

[Bagel]

.auto balance,auto contrast crop, filter/noise/reduce noise,touch up wiht smudge tool at 20%
gaussian blur (slight)
add layer mask (white out background)

new layer
trace with 1 px black paintbrush
copy layer twice.set each to multiply then merge all 3 lineart layers with a solid white layer
filter/brushtrokes/dark strokes/adjust as needed
filter/artistic/paint daubs
touch up with smudge tool, white paint brush
adjust birghtness contrast/lower contrast up brightness slightly
paint over whole thing with painbrush set on "color" in color of choice
merge all
Actions/aged photo
set new layer to overlay 30%-50% as preffered

merge all
save as .png

 

[Trance97]

.auto balance,auto contrast crop, filter/noise/reduce noise,touch up wiht smudge tool at 20%
gaussian blur (slight)
add layer mask (white out background)

new layer
trace with 1 px black paintbrush
copy layer twice.set each to multiply then merge all 3 lineart layers with a solid white layer
filter/brushtrokes/dark strokes/adjust as needed
filter/artistic/paint daubs
touch up with smudge tool, white paint brush
adjust birghtness contrast/lower contrast up brightness slightly
paint over whole thing with painbrush set on "color" in color of choice
merge all
Actions/aged photo
set new layer to overlay 30%-50% as preffered

merge all
save as .png

That sounds like a lot of work lol.

 

[Bagel]

That sounds like a lot of work lol.

the hardest part is the tracing/touch up..its not diffucult jsut tiem consumign thats why it took a bit under 2 hours to do

 

[Bagel]

:ninja

 

[andcuriouser]

Cute!

 

[sharpies]

You have a great eye, I like your work.

Allan

 

[alleycat]

I love love love your work bages... what an awesome look!

will you do one of bug??

 

[Darkstar]

I love love love your work bages... what an awesome look!

will you do one of bug??

I love you!

 

[alleycat]

LOL I love you too Crys. Wouldnt that be sweet to have a ton of pics of Bug like that? I could print them on the photo paper and trillion $$ copier at work here and mail them to you. You could frame them and line the room with them. How cool would that be???

 

[Darkstar]

One of the great things about Bagel having photoshop. He can do anything with it. <3

 

[Boomer]

Wow, thats like some scanner darkly shit. Thats friggin cool! Good work dood.