![]() Making flyaways look more realistic via blurring Painting additional hairĭinda calls this step “Where the magic happens,” and it’s the part where he takes the most creative license. So to fix this, he takes the blur tool and runs it around the edges of some of the outer hairs. One problem with simply painting the hair in will leave is that the edges he painted in are crisp and in focus, which is not how cameras capture flyaway hairs due to depth of field. Blurring the edges according to the depth of field Then, during a long timelapse, he goes in and, circling the entire head, paints in large amounts of flyaway hairs as he sees fit, adjusting the mask opacity to make sure it’s following the flow of the original hair. Key tip: To decrease the opacity of a mask, click on it, go to Window > Properties to open up the Mask Properties window, then decrease the Density.Īfter decreasing the mask opacity to see where the hair falls, he selects one of his “multi-strand” brushes and begins to paint in the wider swaths of hair. Dinda uses white brushes for the hair to paint parts of the layer mask back in. Note: When working with Layer Masks, black is a part that’s excluded, and white is a part that’s included. Painting the hair back in with the new hair brush To start with, he selects the layer mask that he made over the subject at the beginning, then uses his various hair brushes to paint away parts of it, exposing the “overflow” hairs underneath, the ones that he didn’t capture when cutting it out with the pen tool. For it, he relies heavily, again, on his Wacom tablet. This is the longest part of the tutorial, but also the most straightforward. The name of the tutorial isn’t entirely accurate, as instead of cutting out hair, it mostly has to do with painting it back in after cutting it out so that it looks more natural. ![]() Key Tip: Whenever you want to vary a brushstroke, you can go back to Brush Settings and in the Brush Tip Shape window, adjust the Angle. Then he goes back to the Brush Settings panel and sets similar properties for them as he did for the single-strand brush. This requires some more complex work within the brush functions, as he selects around them, sets the background color to white, and uses them to define a new Brush Preset through the Edit menu. He then makes second and third brushes using a different method: zooming in on a section of the hair and scattering black dots over it. He saves this as a brush preset for painting in hair in the future, then saves it into a new brush Group so that he can keep the next brushes he’ll make together with it. Then in the Shape Dynamics submenu, he sets the size to Pen Pressure as well, and Hardness somewhere in the middle. Taking the default brush, he goes to the Brush Settings panel, and under the Transfer submenu, sets Opacity and Flow to Pen Pressure. It’s also the part that will be most reliant on his Wacom tablet, as there’s no true equivalent way to do this with a mouse. So, in order to patch in some of the hair that’s been lost, Dinda will need to make a few new brushes. Cutting out a mask around the subject Making Hair Brushes Before we even begin, Dinda draws an extremely complicated path around the outside of the subject. He renames the path in order to save it, then creates a selection out of it by right clicking and going to Make Selection, then clicks on the Mask button with the selection active to create a layer mask. Creating a black background layer underneath the mask shows us that the cutout is perfect around the hard edges, but not around the hair. It’s a great place to start for upskilling with your first steps in Affinity Designer!Īffinity Designer Tutorial for Beginners in 13 Minutes! Here, we’ve collected some of the best for everyone from beginners to more seasoned pros, a mix of video and written tutorials. Affinity Designer is made for Mac iOS, Windows, and iPad. Use it to do anything from making a business card to mock-up an app. ![]() It’s part of the Affinity package of design tools made by Serif. ![]() It’s a competitor to Adobe’s Illustrator and allows you to design various elements for print or digital publication. 25+ Most Helpful Affinity Designer Tutorials (+ Reviews) in 2023 On:Īffinity Designer is a vector or raster app. ![]()
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