Fur, Hair, & Clothing Tutorials

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This is not a tutorial on getting rid of helmet hair/fur from your Poser figures or adding clothing as a post-process, instead it will point you to a few great tutorials for digital painting of fur/hair and clothing.  Since most of the tutorials listed use Photoshop, I'll show you some results and a few tips in using Paint Shop Pro (when I can).  If you know of any other post-processing tutorials for fur/hair or clothing, please let me know and I'll add them to the list. I have linked to these tutorials in good faith, so if you see your tutorial listed here and do not wish it to be linked to, please let me know.

If the link no longer works, try modifying the url by deleting directories to get back to the main site, then locate the tutorial from there.

Tutorial Name Notes Author
HAIR
Adobe's Digital Hair Mania If this link doesn't work, do a search on hair at Adobe, they like to move things around frequently Adobe
Advanced Hair Painting   Linda Bergvist
+AlterEgo3D's Hair Tutorial Combining hair from a magazine or photo with Poser renders +AlterEgo3D
Using Real Hair from Photos   Arch-Angel Merchandising
Hair Color Chart   Arch-Angel Merchandising
The Attic's Painting Dark Curly Hair - in work  
Cazcie's Digital Hair Tutorial for Photoshop   Cazcie
Creating Hair in Painter 5   Jane Rock Kennedy
Creative Dust's Hair and Cloth Tutorial Available online (Shockwave) or for download Creative Dust
Crossblade's Silky, Shiny Hair Tutorial   CrossBlade
DACort's Hair Tutorial - updated link (8/25/02) DACort
Debbie M's Painting Hair in Photoshop Tutorial Gone (8/25/02) Debbie M.
Dodger's Yet Another Hair Painting Tutorial   Sean Cannon
Don Seegmiller's Painting Hair Tutorial - updated link   Don Seegmiller
Hair and Cloth Tutorial Requires Shockwave for online version or you can download zipped version. Drazenka Kimpel
Eyecandy 4.0 Long Hair Tutorial How to use Eyecandy 4.0 to create long hair. Lin White
Eyecandy 4.0 Short Hair Tutorial How to use Eyecandy 4.0 to create short hair. Lin White
Isaura Simon's Hair Tutorial   Isaura Simon
Jelisa's Hair Tutorial Combines Lyne's Fur Technique, Bloodsong's Brushes, Xtinction's Hair Tutorial, and my own tweaks. It's not the best tutorial around, but is a great starting point. Darlisa Riggs
Keiiii's Hair Tutorial Explains how hair hangs, flows, etc. Keiiii
LisaB's Cloth and Hair Painting in Photoshop - updated link (8/25/02) LisaB
Lyne's Fur Technique
  • Uses Photoshop terms
  • In Paint Shop Pro, I use the following:
    • Tool - hand
    • Brush Tip - Size of 8 to 23; Opacity, density and hardness of about 30 (Increase opacity if needed); Step = 3
    • Tool Controls - Retouch mode = Smudge; Paper texture = None; Sample merged is checked
Lyne Masamuto
Modeling and Texturing 3D-Hair   Marco Barnig
Painting Fur in Photoshop   Henriikka Linjama
Painting Hair in Photoshop 6 Gone (8/25/02) Deborah Montique
Painting hair on Characters using Paint Shop Pro Gone (8/25/02) Sue Snowden
Painting hair using Photoshop   Will Kramer
Portrait Tutorial   Patrick Liu aka Mongi
Post-processing Poser Hair Rendered in Bryce   Gunther Berkus
Realistic Hair in Photoshop   Malachi Maloney
Rebekah Lyne's Hair Tutorial   Rebekah Lyne
Sarsa's Hair Painting Tutorial    
Teryn's Tresses   Kristen Perry
Toxic Angel's Hair Painting Tutorial Download only Toxic Angel
"Updo" Hair Tutorial   Katherine Dinger
Xtinction's Hair Tutorial zipped
(1 MB)

Xtinction's Hair Tutorial 1

Xtinctions' Hair Tutorial 2

Thanks to Xtinction for allowing me to place a copy of his tutorial here for download Xtinction
Yamako and Kozaburo's Transparency Mapped Hair for P4 Female Figure Tutorial gives samples and shows how to create realistic hair textures using a paint program and UV Maps Yamako and Kozaburo
ZoneFive's Hair Tutorial    
CLOTHING
Creative Dust's Hair and Cloth Tutorial Available online (Shockwave) or for download Creative Dust
Dalinese's Cloth Tutorial

and at Poser Arcana

  Dalinese
Deranged Laine's Folds Tutorial Explains what folds are, how they work, etc. Laine
Hair and Cloth Tutorial Requires Shockwave for online version or download zipped version. Drazenka Kimpel
LisaB's Cloth and Hair Painting in Photoshop   LisaB
Making of a 'Winter Dream' Gone (8/25/02) Linda Bergvist
Martin Murphy's Queen Tutorial   Martin Murphy
Painting clothes using Photoshop updated 8/01 Will Kramer
Portrait Tutorial   Patrick Liu aka Mongi
Scotia's Clothing & Hair Tutorial Off-line temporarily Scotia
MISC FIGURE
Portrait Tutorial   Patrick Liu aka Mongi
Realistic Lips in Photoshop    
BRUSHES
Bloodsong's Brush Sets for Photoshop & Paint Shop Pro Has two set of brushes - Hairy & Furry

Click here to see examples of Bloodsong's brushes along with my results in PSP (brushes with red stars were used in the examples)

Bloodsong
Chark's Assorted Photoshop Brushes    
Jelisa's PSP6 Hair Brushes (1 KB) Change extension to .abr to use in Photoshop Darlisa Riggs
WyndWalker's Fur & Hair Brushes   WyndWalker
Xtinction's Hair Brushes for Photoshop (13 KB) Change extension to .jbr to use in Paint Shop Pro Xtinction
REFERENCE
Cat Poses & fur reference Photos of my big cat, Truffles, great for poses too Darlisa Riggs
Hair photos just a few at the moment and not good quality (I've got to get a better camera) Darlisa Riggs
LIGHTING
Jelisa's Bryce 4 Light Setup If you have Bryce 3, use the instructions & pictures on the first two pages of my tutorial - A Quick Lighting Tutorial in Bryce (uses the light setup) Darlisa Riggs

 

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