How to make good specular? for a photoshop idiot
I'm trying to learn how to retexture hair and I'm looking at aikea-guinea's Betty Hair replacement how it was done. It is my favourite hair replacement. I can barely understand how she was able to make one of the ugliest EA hairs to one of the best with just 3 texture replacements but anyhoo. So I have no issues with getting the diffuse/multiplier done but when I try to make it into specular and to the mask/control I run into problems. So to illustrate my problem, I have taken aikea's diffuse and I'm trying to make it to look the same as her specular but I get this mess:
This is how her original looks like, see how it is softer and also has better highlights but yet is dark and more detailed:
I bet it is something super simple too but photoshopping is not my forte.