Making a Beard Tutorial

Made by: Nick

Have you ever wondered what someone would look like with a beard? You, your friend, a celebrity? Well I aim to teach you in this tutorial how to create this effect in photoshop.

I will start with this beardless man:



First we need to create a new layer for the beard.



After this, select the brush tool and using a smooth brush and a grey colour paint the beard in where you want it.




Now apply noise filter (filter>Noise>Add Noise...).



You may change the amount of the noise as much as you want but here i prefer around 30%, set the distribution to uniform, and Select monochromatic option



You should have something like this so far:



Now change the beard's layer mode to multiply



And then apply gaussian blur (Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur)



Use any value of radius that fits your picture, mine ended up setting at 1.5.



You should have something like this:



Finally you may want to decrease the opacity of the beard to make it blend better.
 

End Result