To toggle between white and black, use the X key.ģ. Switch the color to black in order to erase, just in case you mess up. With the Brush tool set to white, we’ll paint the Oil Paint effect into our model’s hair. Then set the foreground color to white and the background color to black. Select the Brush tool, or hit the B key and select a desired Brush opacity. This will hide the effect which we need to paint back using the Brush tool. If you prefer shortcuts hold the Alt key and click on the Add Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. To do that we’ll ensure that our layer is still selected, then go to Layer >Layer Mask > Hide All. However, we want to apply it to a subject’s hair only. The Oil Paint filter will cover the entire image. Play around until you discover what values will work for your picture. You can see the values I chose for this image. The values will depend on the quality and the size of your image. There is no one size fits all when it comes to the values for each slider under Brush and Lighting. You can also right click on the background layer and select Duplicate Layer. Open an image in Photoshop CS6 or CC, and duplicate the background by hitting Ctrl+J (Win) or Cmd+J (Mac). Let’s learn how to paint hair using the Photoshop oil painting technique in Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop CC. This time I’ll focus on Oil Paint, which you can find under Filter > Oil Paint or by pressing Ctrl+F (Win) Cmd+F (Mac). There are many ways to fix hair in Photoshop. Fixing stray and coarse hair isn’t always fun, but it doesn’t have to be impossible. If you retouch your own images, at some point you may have had a bad experience with your subject’s hair.

The folder for this exercise contains a 200mb PSD and one jpeg. Once downloaded, unzip the file to view the contents within the folder. Press Products: Cards, Posters, Sell Sheetsĭownload the exercise files to follow along with this Photoshop Oil Painting tutorial.

Oil paint filter in photoshop