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Freckles Brush

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I've been playing around with tutorials and freckles brushes out there. What has bothered me so far is that everybody seems to have started out with a regular round brush tip, before applying all the magic such as spacing and scattering, etc.

With this brush, I've started with the shape of an actual real freckle from one of my portraits, and I believe the look is much more natural now than with previous, round brushtips.

So here goes. Please kindly let me know if and where you use it, thanks.

Tip: Chose different size brushes on different layers, using varying shades of the real skin tone of the model. Mix the blendmodes of these layers, using multiply and color burn, and reduce the fill opacity until it looks good.

Additional tip: For really convincing results, try displacing the freckles layers, using a black-and-white image of the face as the displacement map. (not done here in this image).
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RubenStrada's avatar
It looks good for portraits...thanks!