Retouch hair realistically in Affinity Photo (2.1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- Welcome back guys, and in this video I'm going to show you how I realistically retouch hair using a variety of techniques in Affinity Photo (2.1.)
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00:00 Intro
00:30 Erasing the flyaways
02:30 Hair and part cleanup
03:36 Creating a new hair edge - method 1
07:08 Creating a new hair edge - method 2
10:57 Creating a hair (painting brush)
12:30 The characteristics of hair
14:02 Painting in the hairs
17:00 Using the stabilizer
18:09 Rotate the canvas
18:59 Draw natural looking hair
21:20 Painting time lapse
22:10 All hairs painted
23:19 Secret trick to natural highlights
25:38 Hair blending options
Intro Music provided by: sokolovsky_music/ Pond5.comwww.pond5.com/artist/sokolovsky_music#1/2064
Time lapse music by: Karl Casey
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Check out the model in this video!
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I watch all your stuff even the stuff I don't think I need and I learn something everytime when you started drawing in hairs my mind was blown lol incredible job
Haha. Thank you my brother! Yeah, it’s something not a lot of people think about. It’s often easier to just erase a lot then draw in your own hairs.
So this method takes a lot of time but looks amazing - But my favorite thing about this method is that because you are painting back in the hair - you also create a 100% perfect separation from the background. So nice if you want a transparent background.
Thank you, and you are exactly right. I actually can’t remember if I mentioned that in the video, but it is really helpful when you’re trying to do a background replacement, or like you mentioned, a transparent background. You don’t have to worry about a lot of that haloing you see when trying to create selections of hairs. You’ve got a nice clean edge of hair.
@@brgphotography yeah hair has allways been a pain for me to separate but with this technique (if I have the time) I can do it perfectly. Thank you
@Felledk no doubt. I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
Very impressive and helpful, thank you!
Thank you very much! I’m glad you found it helpful!
Hell yeah another BRG video!
Thank you very much! Hope it helped.
Haha. Thank you! I know it’s been awhile. Hopefully I’ll start posting a bit more frequently!
Thanks for the support!
augh I'm so glad everytime I see your still making videos for us lol man I'm struggling with having consistency in my skin tones in pics do you have any tips? I try to do creative edits but its never clean I can't wait to watch this video after church also how are you feeling about the AI in photoshop are you going to be switching over on us lol
Hey man, always glad to hear from you!
Yeah, even skin tones can be tough. I think the video before this one covers extreme situations of variations in skin tones. But usually if involves zooming out a bit and looking at the image as a whole. Then I try to figure out if there are inconsistencies in saturation or luminosity. Then I’ll add a HSL or Curves adjustment and paint in the adjustments.
Maybe I’ll make a video on different techniques. I also use Capture One as my RAW processor and they have a great skin tool that helps me even out skin tones before bringing it in to Affinity.
As for AI, I won’t be going to photoshop soon or ever. I really dislike subscription plans, and have been using affinity for all my professional work, and can’t see that changing any time soon.
Who knows, maybe Affinity will add AI at some point….
@@brgphotography ha that is good to hear as soon as I heard of it my very first thought was oh no we are going to lose BRG haha and I loved that video where you changed the color of her legs I watched that one when it came out but I didn't mean inconsistency I meant like the skin not being the actual color of skin and it being drastically different from picture to picture but I never see it until I look at them side by side,
I need to look into capture one I'm with you I can't do the subscription thing or even the one time deals but something like capture one could be super helpful, thanks for the tips I'm going to definitely work on hsl and etc
my wife subs to photoshop and I messed around with hers and honestly I just love affinity better maybe because i'm used to it and the AI was rarely what I needed it to be but I felt like the colors came out stronger with photoshop if that makes sense with less tweaking but yea always honored getting a response and thanks again for making videos its massively helpful.
So I assume you’re talking about inconsistencies with the photos you’re talking?
@@brgphotography yea because we shouldn't need to use white balance with shooting raw right? so when I edit my pics are usually all over the place as far as skin tone from one picture to the other
I think one important thing is to make you you aren’t using auto-white balance. Because the camera will try to compensate and set a ‘correct’ white balance for each shot. And depending on the setting/lighting/surroundings, the camera may be setting a slightly different white balance each shot try to find ‘correct’ WB.
I always shoot a gray card under the lighting conditions I am shooting in to ensure I have correct WB. I also try to remember to shoot the gray card again when I change modifiers or lighting setups. Because there might be a subtle color shift from this softbox to that umbrella.
In the near future I’m going be making videos on my studio workflow, how I work with lighting in the studio, work with models, my RAW processing, etc…
My opinion is why, why you didn't took time to check your model's hair, if one picture is messed up, I can imagine the rest are the same, call your model and redo this session, next time, take your time to rest and relax before a photo shot session, have a hair brush around and do the baseball rule, 3 and you are out, check, check, check, CLICK SHOOOOT.
Stop wasting time.
No, definitely that is a valid point and something I often try to be aware of.
But there are times where we have a limited amount of time, multiple outfit changes, and certain number of shots we need to get, etc, that certain things slip by. And even though a quick brush of the hair only takes a few seconds, sometimes in the moment of trying to get everything done, I miss things.
Also, and I’m pretty guilty of this, is I’m so hyper focused on the lighting, exposure, posing, and another aspects, I’ll miss a lot of things that I don’t notice until I’m going through the RAWs. And in those cases it’s good to know how to remove a clothing tag, fix a background element, or remove some unwanted flyaways via retouching.