Adding Beards & Stubble to a Portrait Tutorial
This photoshop tutorial will show you how you can easily add beards and stubble to a portrait. Here’s my before and after photos..
Step 1.) Create new layer, and paint the beard area using a midtone gray using a soft-edged brush.
Step 2.) Apply gaussian noise filter ( filter >> noise >> add noise) to your the gray you’ve just painted on the new layer. The amount of noise used will depend on the size of the image you’re working on.
Step 3.) Now apply the Radial Blur to make the stubble. First, we must set the midpoint for the blur by hold on ‘alt’ as you draw an elliptical marquee from the center out. Starting from the bridge of the nose and enclosing the whole beard area.
Step 4.) Chose radial blur (filter > blur > radial blur: zoom, best).
Step 5.) Now change the layer mode to hard light to make the stubble transparent.
Step 6.) To make the beard darker, you can lower the brightness by using the Curves Adjustment (Image > Adjustment > Curves)
Done!
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Tutorial written by Steve Caplin, the author of How to Cheat in Photoshop (Shared with permission).
See also: Photoshop Tutorials
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that’s pretty sweet. good tut.
This is so fu*king cool.. I mean simple, useful and fun.. I love this and use constantly
Great tutorial! It’s Strangly addictive, half my photo collection is as of now full of oddly bearded women, its got great practical uses aswell of course!
Thanks!
Great tutorial i will have to try this one
I rate this one an 8
This is awesome, you are great!
Simple yet effective. Fantastic tutorial!
Nice tutorial, thnx
Great tutorial! Welldone.
Hahaha best tutorial ever… Both my 14 y/o brother and my mom are happy with their beards (Y) It is an addictive effect
realy worth
Good one….. Thanks
good tutorial!
thanx!
NICE TUT LUV IT !!!
This Tut is the best so simple i thought id run into problems as i mostly do with tut’s but with this is was spot on no problems what so ever I reckon just about anyone could do this!
It doesn’t work. You can’t apply a gaussain noise filter on a specific area-it coveres the entire image!
Make sure you create a new layer for the stubble, otherwise you will do the whole image rather than just the stubble
veryy cool thank you verry much
A great bit of photo retouching ,I will recommend this to my students.
thats excellnt! Really great job, thank you for posting this tut