Comments on: Removing Transparency with Brushes Photoshop Tutorial

By: Adina Duane

Adina Duane — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:15:43 +0000

Oh No worries, ^_^ you’ve done plenty already, i guess i should be looking at how to paint hair then, Thanks for the quick reply I shared your website with My Facebook friends ^_^

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:22:40 +0000

It’s really quite hard to do hair. For hair, I really don’t suggest brushes. I have hair strands brushes so people can use them, but they really work best for black hair only. Other colors have too much dimension to them for brushes to work properly and really look realistic.

Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of options for what to use when it comes to hair other than painting it by hand or trying to use the hair from another image and try to make it fit your new image.

It IS possible to do using brushes, but in the end I end up doing a lot of hand painting to make it work.

I’m sorry I couldn’t help more!

By: Adina Duane

Adina Duane — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:06:26 +0000

Hey Stephanie!

Reallly really love the tutorial, helped fixed some issues, i did make it less transparent but for some reason the brushes still look fake? i’m trying to apply them to an image am creating, making a new head of hair, but it looks like am applying something from a toon on it, any ideas on how to change this?

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:41:36 +0000

I have looked and looked for some tutorial like this. Bless you for making it as it really helps me get that correct look. So many ways in photoshop, but some ways….like this….are as extremely helpful.

By: lalith

lalith — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:24:43 +0000

Thankyou-Verymuch

By: TWISTED

TWISTED — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:26:10 +0000

Loved this Tutorial…and I was able to fill in remaining tranparent areas in other Colors than white…Love it…Thanks. (Newbie to all this)

By: cj

cj — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:03:25 +0000

help me pri BYE!

By: cj

cj — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:38:31 +0000

i need help looking 4 somtin’

By: cj

cj — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:36:44 +0000

r u going 2 say 2 me

By: cj

cj — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:35:36 +0000

oh realy stephene

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:08:06 +0000

@xTekkerz: If it’s not showing up in the color that you selected, then your file type may not be in RGB mode? Also, you’re sure you’re using the brush tool? Right click on it and make sure it says it’s the brush tool and not something else. Other than that, there’s nothing I can think of that would cause that given the steps given by this tutorial.

Good luck!

By: xTekkerz

xTekkerz — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:29:51 +0000

Well cool tutorial, but when I use my brushes and I have my colour selected, it doesn’t show up in the colour I wanted only white, and I’m planning on having a design with a different colour then white brush????

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:55:32 +0000

Well, I wasn’t trying to infer that this would work with everything easily. :) Although I’ve yet to find a brush that I couldn’t make look realistic using this strategy – I just have to do a lot of painting myself. It’s not very realistic for people that don’t want to do that. Just an option. This is why I don’t really make image-based brushes anymore, though… it’s usually just not worth it.

Thanks!

By: pri

pri — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:15:54 +0000

Great tutorial but how about a high detailed transparent grass brush for instance? It is not that easy.

By: LLG Denise

LLG Denise — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:15:12 +0000

Oh my goodness, thank you. Just YESTERDAY i was wondering how to fix that without clicking a million times with the brush–which will make the transparency (as well as much of the detail!) disappear! I ended up trying to add fabric or other overlays then using blending options, which works to a degree, but doesn’t do what THIS does! I’m gonna have to study with my hands in photoshop with this one.

Thanks so much for the tutorials. Guess what I’M doing on vacation, LOL.