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Published: 2006-01-30 00:44:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 154625; Favourites: 309; Downloads: 5394
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Okay people. You ask me how do I do my hair? It's not magic! It's not real talent! And now you can do it too if you have the patience. I'm writing this assuming you know a little bit about using the pen tool in photoshop.1. Make a line.
2. Put a point in the middle of the line.
3. Hold ctrl (or the mac equivalent of ctrl) and click on the new point, then drag.
4. Close the shape.
5. Make a point on the new line.
6. Ctrl drag to match up with your previous curve.
7. Use the handlebars to manipulate your curve however you'd like.
8. Repeat a thousand fucking times and voi la! Pull the 'magic' out of your ass and impress your friends with a wonderful head of vectored hair
I'm sorry if I've disappointed any of you, I'm not amazing. My method is simple, I just have a lot of patience with what I do and love doing it. Although sometimes works like Angelina drive me slowly insane.
Tip: I start off with the lighter shades of hair, and to minimize your layer count use the 'add to shape area (+)' tool. The thinner the strand, the more detailed your hair will come out. Once I've done a lot of thinner, more detailed hairs, I start layering thicker strands behind them, and finally large shapes to fill in any blank areas that I missed. Adding a few stray hairs here and there help your picture to look more realistic. I use colours for hair directly from the photo but that doesn't stop me from changing them around to fit with everything else better.
Any questions? Feel free to note me. If you have no idea how to use the pen tool, I suggest you take a look at Lemon Tea's Vector Guide 3.0 for the basics.
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But you didn't highlight which hair that became. I can't understand it without that!
HJ Hornbeck
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Lol crap, now I have to make a whole new tutorial :b
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that really is a different take on hair to how i do it. from now on i might use this a bit more
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How do you do it? I'm curious about what other people do, I have the distinct feeling they're more amazing than I am lol.
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hahaha im lazyer and tend to just use two pionts then just the anchors, though that only lets me have cuvure in the hair in one direction
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Yeah, I dunno. I'm not telling people to do it this way 
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hahaha, im just thinking that this way could realy improve how i do it
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omgwtfbbq, i needed this more than i needed a hug. which is badly.
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hehe, sweet! and i thought that cheap ploy would never work...
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Lol. You found the biggest sucker in the world for a guy who needs a hug.
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haha. now how about money for food? you know starving artists? psshaw. how about starving lazy people. THATS where the support's goin now.
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And that's starving because I'm too lazy to make myself food
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Dude, all the money I'd donate would go right to me. I'm a walking bilboard for starving lazy people.
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haha, me too. guess we have more in common than a squid and a pear.
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heh. exactly. Pears and apples have the fact that they are edible in common. we have the fact that we are edible, we have feet, and funky hair.
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I bet we're both delicious too. That's good.
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indeed. oh, and i bet we taste deliciously similar to chicken w/ spices adn barbeque sauce
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I wanna be teriyaki flavour! You can be this...barbecue you speak of.
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....it's negotiable. Only from the most sparkly pineapples though. Of course. The ones from France, ya know?
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France? psshaw. the ones from Montana are the best, for sure.
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right above Dadlaska. which is next to the The Soviet Moose, and directly south of Oil.
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Aren't there a lot of horses in Montana or something?
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apparently. also, the state has many particles of air, and 2 gas stations. for traffic lights, however, you have to go to Idahoe.
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Oooh. Idahoe. Magical land of traffic lights
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traffic lights... AND lap dances. speaking of which...
LAP DANCES: THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THAT SOMEONE SPECIAL. and by someone special we mean that hopeless computer nerd who hasnt seen daylight in 14 years.
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He might get a heart attack from so much skin contact.
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hell, he might get a heart attack from the lack of a computer screen. heh, now thats an idea... virtual lapdances... lets become entrepeneurs! but not actually do it.
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Lol, we'll be idealistic entrepeneurs. It's just as good but half the work
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if by half you mean no work at all. and if by no work at all we make our secreataries do it while we go to rich parties and inter-mingle with people wearing toupee's while doing cocaine, as we scoff at them for wasting their fortune on drugs, and then go and poke little kids in the mall because they scare me adn are wierd.
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Looks like we've got our plan straight.
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damn little kids... always stealing my jawbreakers. Jawbreakers should be spelled with an X. i dont know where, but it would make the word about 100x cooler. the word might surpass teh coolness of jawbreakers themselves.
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just JawbreaX! oh em fucking gee, our entrepeneurship just increased! now we can add lollerskates!
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and rofflecopters. lollerskates for the nerdy exercisers, and rofflecopters for the techie army people.
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omgwtfbbq! i must become your teacher.
YOU WILL SUBMIT.
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Heh, that emoticon bud has a giant smile on his face. but no groveling, now, missy. i may be older than you, but i'm no way better than you. except at rocking. i rock at rocking.
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Lol groveling? psht, its the art of sucking up.
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why are you sucking up to me? why cant our amazing rule of tyrranical doom be mutual? RAWR! TYRANNY, TERROR, AND LAWL-LESS VIOLENCE!
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Because if you get really powerful I don't want you to behead me in my sleep.
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now who told you that im THAT evil? it would probably be more of a shot-in-the-back-with-a-pistol deal.
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