How to do Bald Men??

[CeesGee]

I have a pic of my dad that I would like to do for my sis...
My dad was bald...and i am not having much luck..
Can anyone give me suggestions or direct me to a tutorial??
Thanks...Debbye

[dbuckle]

Not sure what you want to achieve. Maybe post the photo and let members try, maybe you can get some ideas. You could also put it in works in progress and get suggestions.

[CeesGee]

Not sure what you want to achieve. Maybe post the photo and let members try, maybe you can get some ideas. You could also put it in works in progress and get suggestions.

I will post the one I have started on....It is horrible...it looks like an elderly man with an extemely HUGE forehead..
I have worked on it in many different ways...but always seem to come up with the same results or something that sort of
looks like a clown.

What forum should I post the original in? I always seem to choose the wrong one??
Thanks,
Debbye

[dbuckle]

I think I'd put it on the member to member photo art challenges and see what happens.

[phyllis stewart]

I have moved this post here so anyone who'd like to help with this photo may join in and play with it.

[phyllis stewart]

Debbye, I know this is an old post, but I thought we could have some fun with it and learn from each other at the same time. Here's what I did for starters.

First, since the smudged version seemed too soft and flat, I merged it at 50% over the original, then flattened.

To make his forehead look smaller, I used transform perspective to widen the bottom of the image.

Then I used the control/t, or h/v transform box, to make that image taller and narrower, so his mouth and chin overlapped in good proportion when I checked it against the original, but the forehead was slightly narrower so he wasn't "looking down" quite so much, as in the original. You could do more of the perspective change to widen the chin as compared to forehead, since YOU know what he should look like.

Just a start. You also could clone his hairline in just a tiny bit on each side, not so much that it's very noticeable, but to give him a tad more hair on his hairline, thus reducing the forehead again.

[Tennie]

I wish there was a larger image to experiment with. However, the 1st step should be noise reduction. Use hue/saturation to get the skin color more normal. Then sample his skin color, use a soft brush low opacity (20% or lower, preferably lower) and lightly go over the skin to even the color more. Sample again as you go to different areas remembering that none of us have one color in all parts of our face. Go lightly enough that you don't obscure lines...they are what gives us character and keeps us from looking plastic.

If you're trying to paint the picture I'm can't really help there, but a good foundation should make it easier.

There's nothing wrong with bald men I'm married to one and our son is as bald as your dad in the picture.

Forgot to add the pic. I didn't do any skin painting, found that the noise reduction, hue/saturation and a run through Topaz Detail evened things out fairly well.