#simductiontutorial

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Tutorial: how do I give depth to the skin 

(AKA contour/shadows&highlights/WHATEVER)

You need photoshop or any similar program.

1: Prepare your screenshot in case you want to remove the background or liquify.

2: Duplicate the layer and remove the hair the clothes, makeup, anyting (we just need the skin).

3: Also remove mouth, nostrils and eyes (with these last make sure that the edge is soft with a low opacity eraser).

4: Now select a color similar to the skin but dark and saturated.

5: Duplicate the skin layer and hide one, now selecting the skin layer go to Layer/Layer Style/Inner Glow.

6: Modify the options at your convenience but make sure you change screen for multiply and the yellow color for the color that we had chosen.

7: Make the effect a single layer and delete the skin we used to make it.

8: Load the selection of the skin duplicate that was occult and invert it so we can remove the rests of the effect layer.

9: Hide all the layers and unhide the skin layer, now open Select/Color Range and select the lightest parts of the skin.

10: Over the effect layer make a Brightness/Contrast layer and increase the brightness till you are happy. And that's it!

Optional: you can blur an remove the excess of these two layers for a softenn result.

I hope this was useful and clear, in case you have doubts send me a question.

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Hi! I wanted to ask you for a simple tutorial :) When you join two hairs in Blender, how do you do that texture stuff on the left side? For instance, I want to add bangs to the hair and how to put its textures on the textures of the hair to make it show correctly? I know, it's a mess but I hope you will understand :( Thank you! I love your blog.

Hello, i’m gonna explain the process of how do I put the texture to the bangs to match with the hair. (I’m assuming this is what you want to learn) 😄

1. first of all, I import the texture of the hair which I want to add bangs to the package of the mesh with the bangs. 

(I always use the orange texture because is like a medium tone, neither very clear nor very dark)

2. I open the blender file of the hair and then import the mesh of the bangs with the same texture.

3. Expand the side window to be able to see better the uv map editor, and then open the texture to see where you are moving the mesh parts along the texture.

4. Edit the uv map to your liking!