How to "bald" a guy

[kenny1999]

I am making fun with a best friend of mine

I have his picture. He isn't bald in the picture, but I want to make him bald, however, what is the general
step I need to do to make the pictures look, at least, not too bad?

First, I know I should select to remove his hair, but how to make the deleted area look similar to the background?

Second, how can I make his forehead a bit shiny? In the picture there isn't any shiny

[Krikor]

Just for fun, without much pretense of perfectionism, you can basically use tools like Clone, Smudge, Color Picker (I think that's all I used in the gif below).
   
Basically it is cut the part that should not have hair, applied skin tones in that region, and use the smudge tool to harmonize everything.

With the Dodge / Burn tools it is possible to shade or create points of reflections (brightness). Just brush on a transparent layer over the desired area, with white or/and black, blur and use some layer mode for a better blend (overlay, etc.)

Optionally, a skin texture can be applied to this region, extracted from the forehead or from another region that you think is best. (There are skin textures and also skin brushes available on the web).

Another way, perhaps even easier and simpler, would be to use the same technique used to change faces. You would only need to search for images of bald spots, preferably with skin tones close to those you want to achieve. There are several videos showing this technique as tutorials.

The greater the total hair removal, the greater the degree of difficulty due to the greater need for reconstruction.

[kenny1999]

(02-08-2021, 12:38 PM)Krikor Wrote: Just for fun, without much pretense of perfectionism, you can basically use tools like Clone, Smudge, Color Picker (I think that's all I used in the gif below).

Basically it is cut the part that should not have hair, applied skin tones in that region, and use the smudge tool to harmonize everything.

With the Dodge / Burn tools it is possible to shade or create points of reflections (brightness). Just brush on a transparent layer over the desired area, with white or/and black, blur and use some layer mode for a better blend (overlay, etc.)

Optionally, a skin texture can be applied to this region, extracted from the forehead or from another region that you think is best. (There are skin textures and also skin brushes available on the web).

Another way, perhaps even easier and simpler, would be to use the same technique used to change faces. You would only need to search for images of bald spots, preferably with skin tones close to those you want to achieve. There are several videos showing this technique as tutorials.

The greater the total hair removal, the greater the degree of difficulty due to the greater need for reconstruction.

Hi. Is  Clone and Smudge pre-installed in Gimp? Or do they have to be downloaded?

[Krikor]

(02-08-2021, 05:01 PM)kenny1999 Wrote: Hi. Is  Clone and Smudge pre-installed in Gimp? Or do they have to be downloaded?

Pre-instaled!
(c - on the keyboard)    (s - on the keyboard)

[kenny1999]

(02-08-2021, 08:19 PM)Krikor Wrote:

(02-08-2021, 05:01 PM)kenny1999 Wrote: Hi. Is  Clone and Smudge pre-installed in Gimp? Or do they have to be downloaded?

Pre-instaled!
(c - on the keyboard)    (s - on the keyboard)

Hi ! It's almost done, would you mind helping me modify his forehead a little
bit so that the "bald part" has skin color close to his face? And how to do it in GIMP?
Thanks!

[Krikor]

You will always have the question of how realistic you want your end result to be. The quality of the images (High resolutions) is directly related to the final quality possible to obtain.

I leave some techniques in the links below, and I believe that the degree of difficulty is in the order of the first link (easier) for the third.
► https://youtu.be/Nu-S1HmOCgE
► https://youtu.be/zorVCcY120Y
► https://pixls.us/articles/color-curves-matching/

I confess I didn't have the patience, even so I gave it a quick try :-)    

[kenny1999]

(02-10-2021, 07:27 PM)Krikor Wrote: You will always have the question of how realistic you want your end result to be. The quality of the images (High resolutions) is directly related to the final quality possible to obtain.

I leave some techniques in the links below, and I believe that the degree of difficulty is in the order of the first link (easier) for the third.
► https://youtu.be/Nu-S1HmOCgE
► https://youtu.be/zorVCcY120Y
► https://pixls.us/articles/color-curves-matching/

I confess I didn't have the patience, even so I gave it a quick try :-)

Thanks

I'd like to pick the "middle" between very professional result and difficulties. I do not need very professional
result because it will spend a lot of efforts but I am happy to learn something because Ms Paint is certainly
not enough for me